I just ripped and uploaded a copy of "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973) to my server (windows 10).
In the past, I’ve named all the trailers for movies “trailer-trailer.mp4” for my movies. Sometimes if they have a couple of different trailers, I’d ad a number to the end (trailer1-trailer.mp4 and trailer2.mp4).
Lately I’ve started naming my trailers after the movie “(Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973)-trailer.mp4”}. I plan on eventually renaming all of my trailers this way.
This disc came with some extra trailer for movies not contained on the disc. I have a file on my 'puter of these extra trailers stored away so if I do obtain one of these movies on disc that doesn’t have a trailer, I can just copy and paste it to the directory that I put the movie in.
Anyways, I accidently let a couple of these trailer into my Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid directory. I noticed them and was going to remove them, but figured I’d punch the trailer button inside of my Plex client as a kind of roulette to see which one would come up.
I’ve done it 4 times so far, 3 on my Roku client and once on the Plex web. Everytime it plays the Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid trailer.
Will it do this all the time? And if I have trailers enabled, will it only play the Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid trailer or would it play the others also?
I’m thinking if it does, instead of placing all my unmatched trailers into a separate folder outside of the movie directory, I may just upload them with the movie I get them with so they’ll play with the trailers enabled Then if I aquire one of these movies, I could just do a directory search, cut and paste it to the movie’s directory and refresh.
Hope I explained this well.
thanks,
howlinowl
Apparently - I can only get one trailer out of the ‘Film Reel’.
It’s the first one in the list. (<—Yellow)
In the place where ‘Extras’ appear - everything will be displayed - if you have more than one trailer you’ll have to play them from there (as far as I know):
(I’ll spare ya the vertical cell phone image, but Pweb and Roku are similar enough - and they act the same way)
I am unaware, and have no experience with what happens if you have Trailers automatically driven into your eyeballs before every movie - or what will happen if you change the number of trailers to be driven, or if it has any effect on what happens when you press the ‘Film Reel’, but I suspect that button was designed for the single trailer you’re supposed to have - and no more.
If Plex wanted to make The Film Reel useful, and in the case of my Casablanca (1942), pressing it would play every Trailer (4-Various for 1942), News Reel (2-1942) and Cartoon (2-1942-“Carrotblanca”, for instance).
I kinda doubt that will ever happen.
This may seem strange, but I don’t always put the Trailer for ‘that’ movie in with ‘that’ movie. They don’t show you Trailers for the movie you’re paying to see - they show you Trailers for other movies they want you to see. <—ya know, if you’re going for the ‘immersive’ cinema experience.
Thanks for the reply.
I noticed your trailers are listed alphabetically, and the ones I’m referencing in my post are also (Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid; Ride the Country; The Ballad of Cable Hough,; The Getaway; The Wild Bunch). So…it could be picking out the one that actually goes with the movie, or more than likely just playing the first one in the list.
Maybe later I’ll rename one of the others to “a-trailer.mp4” to force it to the front and see if the film reel plays that one.
thanks again,
howlinowl
Yep, I always name my trailers something so they make sense when they’re being displayed… if you know what I mean.
Trailer
Trailer
doesn’t exactly make my OCD pleasant to live with (and obviously I have work to do: Mr. Skeffington Trailer can lose ‘Trailer’ as it seems redundant…lol).
If I have more than one trailer, I know I have to play it from the Extras list. If it’s a bug - it’s raised 10 generations of offspring and still going strong.
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