I’d be really keen to have Plex adopt support for this in mkv. But is this a Plex server support thing, or is it in fact a Plex player support thing? I’d imagine there’s work on both sides, but the thing I’m unclear on is how the UX are of this would work?
Would it be under “play versions”? If so, how does poked gather the naming? Is it in the XML for it to gather the metadata?
And how much content is out there where this is incorporated? Blade Runner is the notorious film with a lot of different edits, and I’ve never seen an x-in-one edit around for it (though there is some chicken and egg stuff: a proliferated platform like Plex making strides to implement it may have the effect of prompting file makers to begin doing it that way… Though it seems no menial task).
It’s 7 years later and this is still a feature in need. Not implementing it means excluding part of the potential Plex userbase from using this product to watch their media as it was intended. Let’s keep the votes and comments coming so that devs can see this as a priority, folks!
I’m voting on this one too, I still have hope that the devs will listen sometime soon.
A lot of anime fansubs (pretty much the only content I use Plex for) make use of ordered chapters to save disk space with the OPs and EDs, which makes watching on them on Plex a worse experience than just using a normal player like VLC or whatever.
Throwing my two cents in for this too. Given that every media player I’ve tried MKVs with has supported this feature for years, I would expect this to not be too massive a problem to solve (albeit not a trivial one). I’d look into just adding it if the server were open source (as some have done with custom Kodi versions).
This is the only reason why I don’t use Plex Media Player on my PC, the fact that this is still an issue after almost 8 years is greatly disheartening when it’s a standard media player feature these days. Hopefully one day we will get this feature, and I will gladly switch fully to only using Plex as I really enjoy having everything in one place, but I cannot accept an inferior experience in the meanwhile.
The core issue here is that the plex transcoder stack is built on FFMPEG and FFMPEG does not support ordered chapters and I doubt it ever will. Who knows? FFEMPG moves slowly and you can encounter some ugly bugs when really pushing it, particularly with complex filtering and mixing.
I’ve been using: UnlinkMKV to convert stuff to monolithic files. It’s on Github. It works.
Limitations in the transcoding stack shouldn’t prevent direct-play clients from supporting this.
That said, Plex might want to maintain consistency. If a transcoding client gets different content than a direct-playing client, that could be considered a bug.
This is a pretty important feature for anyone using Blu-Ray discs with multiple cuts, or for the what I’m sure is massive number of anime views that use this media system.
Not having OP / ED makes certain shows feel dead. 7 years is a long time to ask.
I do sort of get how this would be hard to implement, especially for Direct Play. MKV segment linking requires linked files to be available in the same directory for the player to search for and read them. To get this to work, Plex server may first need to identify the linked files, then make all of them available for streaming to the client. Either that, or the files need to be transparently linked on the server and streamed as a single file to the client.
Added my vote for this. I just documented myself on both of these mkv features, but before I update my collection for the nth time to implement them, I’d rather be certain that PLEX actually supports this.
