Hi. I’ve got my language set to Spanish, and it’s picking posters in Spanish alright, but from the LATAM region (I’m from Spain).
Here are a couple examples: https://i.imgur.com/yJKUTpX.png
Any way to specify region? Modifying the posters to match the titles gets tiring after a while. Specially as some of them change back to something else after a while even after I changed them.
The best solution is to add your own posters by naming the image files exactly the same as your Movie files, except for the file extension, and placing them alongside the Movie file.
E.G.
Beyond The Poseidon Adventure (1979).mp4
Beyond The Poseidon Adventure (1979).jpg
You also need to edit your library and on the Advanced tab, enable Use local assets then click on Save Changes.
Then Plex will pick up your posters and use them. These posters will only change if you change them and if you should need to rebuild a library, the posters will be there for you.
I recommend using a resolution of 400 pixels x 600 pixels or a multiple of that, E.G. 800px X 1200px for each image.
400px X 600px helps keep the file size down, so you don’t waste disk space and Plex will display the full image without cropping any part of it.
There are lots of programs out there that can resize an image’s resolution for you and some have batch capabilites, meaning you can convert many files at once.
Whenever you add a Movie file to your library, make sure you add it’s poster as well.
Currently, you are relying on the content held by various online databases and these databases do not always have what is needed, so you get substitutes instead.
If it’s any consolation, I have 8000 Movies + and every one of them has it’s own poster.
I don’t want local assets though, I’m happy with what Plex chooses. But I have to change/select alternative posters for most of the movies because Plex automatically falls back to “Spanish” (and this is usually for Latin America), and I’d like it to automatically choose “Spanish from Spain” (titles usually difer).
Clearly, you are NOT happy with what Plex chooses, otherwise you would not be here right now.
Plex does the best it can with the resources it has. If you want to change things, then contact the online databases and ask them to make the regional posters etc. available.
Edit:
My apologies, I misread your reply, I think I skipped the second line somehow. Maybe a little too much birthday cheer … lol
My point is though, you would need to have the online databases split their offerings into regional listings, then Plex could make the changes needed to offer what you have requested.
That would mean adding a separate Language selection for those in Spain specifically, as opposed to other Spanish speaking countries.
At least Plex seems to be offering you the correct posters, so that is something at least.
Yeah. Sorry for the confusion. What I usually do is just choose another of the provided posters, not use a local one. Usually, Plex/TMDB has the one I want (the proper one for my country).
Bummer but you’re right, I just checked TMDB and they’re all labeled as Spanish/Castilian (this second part would be incorrect I guess as Castilian should refer to the region of Spain afaik). I’ll still have to select posters for everything that gets selected wrong (which is plenty).
Would love to know why some posters change down the line even after I selected the one I want.
Thanks for your replies @trumpy81
The main problem, as I understand it, is the absence of a means to disambiguate the various language versions.
If you have a user account on TMDB, I suggest you chime in on the discussion topic I just made on their forums: Language designations for posters, titles etc. - Talk — The Movie Database (TMDB)
Because if even the source treats pt and pt-br the same, there is not much that Plex can do either.
Posters can sometimes change when Plex refreshes the metadata, usually during maintenance.
Also, if you had to rebuild your library for any reason (and one day you will, trust me), then you would have to go back in and change all of the posters again.
If you store the posters locally, then they never change and if you rebuilt your library, you would not need to do anything, your posters would be exactly as you left them. You would simply need to make sure Use local assets is enabled in your library settings.
Your Movie files are local assets, so I do not understand your aversion to the idea of storing your posters locally as well?
It seems to me, that you would be killing two birds with one stone.
Also, be aware that you do not have to resize the images if you do not want to, but that can mean some posters may display in slightly smaller sizes and resolutions than others, depending on their initial resolution.
Resizing the images ensures that all posters display in the same size and resolution.
Also, you can use WebTools-NG to download all of the posters you currently have selected in your Plex library with just a few clicks of the mouse.
The WebTools-NG Wiki can show you how to use WebTools-NG.
That doesn’t sound correct.
Plex does always automatically resize posters to the needs of the client. As long as you stick to the aspect ratio of 2:3 for movie posters and don’t go too low in the resolution, you should be perfectly fine with any size.
Try adding posters with oddball sizes/resolutions/aspect ratios and then check the display size of the posters using an onscreen caliper.
You will find that some images may be up to 5 pixels or so, different from one another.
Of course if the files have the correct aspect ratio, then you wont see any difference, but if not, then you will see the difference eventually.
Hence why I prefaced with
Yes, but when you grab random images, you cannot always guarantee they will have the correct aspect ratio for Plex … lol 
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