Before anyone says this is already supported and documented here this is not what I am trying to achieve.
I’m looking to play movies which have a mkv container that contains both the directors cut and theatrical cuts of the movie in the same mkv container via ‘titles’, a feature MKV supports. Not two separate files of the movie. Playing two separate files of the movie is already doable as per my link reference above. I cannot seem to find anything on support for playing 2 in 1 movies which utilize mkv ‘titles’ feature.
There’s been a similar suggestion discussing this very feature. For some reason it had been closed after the OP retired from the forum.
Like the movie “Salt”, more and more movies are released in different versions on Blu-ray. For example “Salt” comes in 3 different Cuts (Theatrical, Director’s and Extended). On Blu-ray Discs this feature is called Seamless branching which equals to Ordered Chapters (or Segment Linking) for MKV-files.
Many software media players (e.g. VLC, MPC, …) support them and MKV-files using this feature are also often used (e.g. in the Anime scene, …)
I’ll go ahead and merge those other posts into this thread in order to avoid losing the original attention / input.
I’m adding my support for this as well, old thread or not. Segment linking and ordered chapters has been part of the MKV specification for at least 7 years. Plex is a great product and should definitely implement this if it’s going to support MKV.
Just tried to watch an anime season in Plex that used ordered chapters with external OP/EDs. I had no idea I was actually missing anything and just thought it was some “artistic decision” to not have openings for these episodes, or credits for that matter. Ends up Plex doesn’t support the feature, which is pretty sad. I’d love to be able to see this someday, preferably with auto-remuxing for sync support so I can watch these episodes on my tablet on-the-go.
I’m new to plex and its really disappointing it does not have support for this. I wouldn’t mind so much if the episode still played without the extra content but in some cases it plays the short clip instead of the main file/video.
