This is how I think it should be realized:
1.) The user needs to set a name that differs only in words he wants to be displayed in the version selection:
movies/Moviename (2019)/Moviename (2019).mkv
movies/Moviename (2019)/Moviename (2019).Special Edition.mkv
It shouldn’t be Moviename (2019)-SpecialEdition.mkv as this will it make harder to use Whitespaces and it would collide with the Extras name scheme.
2.) Plex should extract those words (Special Edition) and use it in the “Play version”-popup:
Read here if you like to know how I reached that.
3.) If a movie has multiple versions the “Play version”-popup is displayed by default. This could be of course an optional Plex server setting.
Additional possibilities:
- Too much text could be displayed in multiple lines. Their could be a total char limit and a word based char limit (so its not possible to produce a weird output)
- The resolution is nothing we need to display if all versions have the same resolution (as the resolution is displayed on the movie page itself)
- The bitrate is nothing we need to display if it differs only <10% percent across all versions
- Several words could be used as tag to display icons instead of texts. This means “4K HDR” could be used to display a graphic that fits into the line like
instead of displaying the words as text.
