Ability to play trailers before movie starts is making watching TV closer to the cinema experience. Unfortunately, I’m not using it due to slow internet connection in my area. Waiting for the trailers to load is too frustrating and spoil the movie experience.
However, I don’t mind downloading some of the trailers and save it in the server.
I wish there is an option in PMS to serve only locally available trailers for smoother playback.
You can. Just use the following settings.
@anon18523487 said:
You can. Just use the following settings.
Thanks. but it still stream trailers from the Internet. What I requested is to have an option to play only locally available trailers.
Oops sorry. Forgot. That will also include the online trailers for movies in your library if you had that setting on. The only way to currently accomplish this would be to turn off gathering the online trailers and extras from the Freebase agent settings.
I do like the idea of there being a setting somewhere to allow this. Probably should be on the client end. Liked.
I to second this request. I don’t want to stream trailers from the internet. It would be nice if Plex would use local trailers and maybe a local trailer directory for movies I do not have (but I have the trailer).
We can download the srt subtitles when media is added to the library. The metadata agents get posters, ratings, sometimes fan art, even though all of this is stored in some cryptic hidden folder structure buried deep in the bowels of the Plex ecosystem.
Why can’t the agents do the same thing for trailers? Only, let’s put them into the media’s folder structure along with the media itself. Not buried in some hard to find, completely arcane structure making it that much harder to mentally associate it to the actual media. Let’s get them local to the PMS device and let our own server handle the transcoding or streaming as needed.
I liked this post, simply from the aspect that trailers have never worked for me. This is a Pass option I don’t use, much like the gaming consoles clients… Worthless to me in my environment…
@MikeG6.5 said:
Why can’t the agents do the same thing for trailers?
The trailers are licensed from a commercial site, the same as music videos. I’m sure those sites would want a lot more money if plex wanted to allow their users to keep them.
@MovieFan.Plex said:
The trailers are licensed from a commercial site, the same as music videos. I’m sure those sites would want a lot more money if plex wanted to allow their users to keep them.
This doesn’t make sense.
IMHO, trailers are basically an advertisement for a particular movie. If I am a movie producer, I will definitely encourage everyone to “steal” my movie trailer and share it with as many people as possible. After all it is just a publicity for my movie.
Music videos are totally different.
@benleow said:
IMHO, trailers are basically an advertisement for a particular movie. If I am a movie producer, I will definitely encourage everyone to “steal” my movie trailer and share it with as many people as possible. After all it is just a publicity for my movie.
True, but Plex is not getting the trailers from the movie studio, they are getting it from a company that has somehow gathered these trailers and offering them to their customers as a 1 stop shop. If Plex users could keep the trailers then there would be no need for Plex to access that site anymore. So it is in the best interest if that company to not allow the trailers to be stored locally.
If there was a free repository of trailers, like the metadata agents, that would be a different story. And don’t say YouTube, because the sources of those videos are usually unknown and there is no catalog system that would allow then to be automatically retrieved.
@MovieFan.Plex said:
If there was a free repository of trailers, like the metadata agents, that would be a different story.
I guess it is time for someone to fill the gap.
or perhaps is there any plugins like the subtitle plugins where it can download the SRT file during scanning process?
after do some searching, i realized that The Movie Database does provide trailers in its metadata. It is mostly links to Youtube. I wonder when can the agents in Plex provide options to download the trailers just like in Kodi, http://kodi.wiki/view/Add-on:The_MovieDB
I get my trailers from the same place as my movies… right off the DVD’s. Why can’t I store them in one directory for Plex to access?
@laffer98 said:
I get my trailers from the same place as my movies… right off the DVD’s. Why can’t I store them in one directory for Plex to access?
make sure your trailer video filename ends with “-trailer” (without the double quotes) . Please refer to https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200220677
No, what I’m saying is if I have a bunch of trailers, but I don’ t have the shows. I want Plex to preview one of these before I watch a movie rather than DL’g one. I get I could make a library just for trailers but then I would have to manually select it to see it. Most DVD’s you buy today come with trailers for other shows…
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