PopUp Play Version" & "More Version" Indicator PLEASE ITS IMPORTANT!

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Initial situation:
Movies in multiple versions are not marked as such in Plex and during playback no popup window is shown where the user can select a version - and this regardless of all possible settings. I have at least two to three versions of every movie out of 1700 movies and many users complaining again and again that it is very cumbersome to use and handle with different versions. I have disabled transcoding because I have enough versions to not load the server processor. There are NO INDICATOR on Poster with MULTIPLE VERSIONS

NEW FEATURES: VERSIONS

1. new settings item - show versions:
In the settings you can NEW make a selection if a popup should appear to make a selection of multiple versions when “playing”.

2. two play button
You can select the yellow “Play” button with the TV remote control - or next to the “Play” button you can select another yellow button “Play version”.

3. original version for "Internet Streaming
If you have multiple versions, AppleTV will encode to the maximum each time, because many users find the settings there complicated. The Samsung Tizen version does not have this problem - there you can set “ORIGINAL” in “Home Network” and “Internet Streaming” respectively and there is no transcoding via the server, which unnecessarily burdens the server.

*- The multiple labeling does not exist on the cover anymore *
- a popup to select a version does not exist anymore
- No matter how many versions a movie has, only the highest version is shown in the main window.
- You have to select the THREE POINTS each time to even see if there are multiple versions.
- The information looks different everywhere. There is no unified view on all platformers

IOS App, iPad App, Samsung TV App, Android App, MacOs App, Plex Web App.

The TV App (Samsung and AppleTV) show on the main view of the title, no flag that there are multiple versions. If you open the main view of a movie in the WebApp or MacOs App, at least the right side shows that there are multiple versions - and only there it shows that there are multiple versions. This - even though a TV also has a large and clear view to inform the user that there are multiple versions. A few years ago, when playing a movie that had multiple versions, a popup with a selection would automatically appear - this no longer exists, no matter if you name the files and folders correctly (short dash or long - doesn’t matter).

We take 4 different versions of a film - as an example Bevery Hills Cop (1984) in a 4K version, a 1080p version, a 1080p.AVC and a 720p version, put them in a folder, name this folder properly according to the PLEX guidelines "

Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
Bevery Hills Cop (1984) – 4K.mkv
Bevery Hills Cop (1984) – 1080p.mkv
Bevery Hills Cop (1984) – 1080p.AVC.mkv
Bevery Hills Cop (1984) – 720p.mkv

and press PLAY - and nothing happens.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE - I have about 50 users and it’s really extremely tedious, even for new users, to keep explaining everything because only the 4K version is constantly displayed and only this is played - regardless of whether one has a tablet or TV , AppleTV, PlayStation App or mobile phone. PLEX ALWAYS selects the 4K version in a WIFI and will bring the server to its knees, although a good 1080p version would also be more than sufficient.

Thank you very much
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There’s already a number of existing feature suggestion threads discussing those options.

  1. Bring back 'Play Version' prompt dialogue for movies with multiple versions (4k & 1080p etc.)
  2. Players should already have a Play Version button – although it might be under the item’s context menu (⋮)
  3. Not sure I get that point… you can set different target qualities for local vs. internet streaming on the Apple TV as well (at least it used to be this way last I checked… my Apple TV is currently broken)

  • The multiple labelling does not exist on the cover anymore

There’s a feature suggestion asking to bring that back

  • a popup to select a version does not exist anymore

It does exist but it’s no longer automatically popping up. IIRC users with many multi-version items had complained about that.
There’s a feature suggestion to bring the old behavior back (see #1)

  • No matter how many versions a movie has, only the highest version is shown in the main window

From what I can see, Plex will display all versions on the movie page – however it defaults to the highest quality version. You have to click and X more to see the list of all available versions.
As you pointed out in your example… that can be a rather long list, so I understand why Plex wants to collapse the list by default :wink:

  • You have to select THREE POINTS each time to even see if there are multiple versions

There’s also the Versions label on the main page, next to the available audio/subtitle tracks.
No need to open the movie’s context menu (⋮)

  • The information looks different everywhere. There is no unified view on all platformers.

I don’t have all those versions available. The ones I could check are usually showing the same amount of information (resolution and average bitrate of each version).
There’s a suggestion to show more information on the version selection popup.

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2022 clean-up: considered implemented / duplicate(s)