Hello, I am looking to optimize my entire movie collection to a lower bitrate, optimized for streaming, and keep them in a separate library. This way, I can only share that “optimized” library with my siblings. Sharing the library of originals is not sufficient, as my siblings do not ever pick said “optimized” versions. Rather, they just play the original files, negating the benefit of the optimized versions, and killing my upstream bandwidth.
Do I have any easy options for this? Currently, my only selection options are to save the optimized versions in the same library, which is pointless for me.
Add a /optimised folder to your main library, tell the optimiser to store optimised copies in it, add a new library with only the /optimised folder and share that library with your siblings.
Job done.
This works for movies, and is what I am doing currently. It does not work for TV shows though… As it does not folder them properly… Thoughts?
It will work for TV Shows as well.
/PlexMedia/TV Shows <- Points to main library /PlexMedia/OPTIMIZED/TV <- Points to the folder where the optimized versions are stored
If I create a new TV Library and point it to /PlexMedia/OPTIMIZED/TV the scanner finds the newly optimized media just fine as new content
Ahh I see my error now, I had my optimized adding to a folder “\shows-optimized”, however Plex was creating a subdirectory “\shows-optimized\plex versions\shared3341”.
I pointed my “optimized” directory to “\shows-optimized\plex versions\shared3341” rather than “\shows-optimized” and all works now! Thanks!
