Is it possible to associate a tag to a specific time in a video?
In other words, when you search for a TAG you not only see related video but you can also go to a specific time in the video.
For example TAG MATH will take you to match questions in the video lecture at 1 hour and 30 minutes in it.
If it is not possible to manage via TAG how else this can be done?
Tags help with organizing the content can you give a little bit more details on what you are trying to do. This sounds like what I do for some of my videos but i just use chapters in the video itself. you do have me curious though.
Lets say I have 20 training videos to study math. Each video is about 4 hours long and it covers about 10 important topics including formulas. Lets call them topic A, B, C - etc. There are 20 videos in total so as you can see a lot of hours of training. Lets call videos: video 1, 2, 3 - etc.
Problem: I want to find topic B in video #7 by searching for it and I want this to take me to the exact topic within the video so I don’t have to search through everything.
How could this be done?
Unfortunately, it can’t be done in Plex.
Using chapters is the closest thing, I’m afraid.
How to use chapters? will chapters get me to specific time in the video?
You need to embed those chapter markers into the video.
(I only know how to do it with MKV files. There is also a way to use chapters in mp4 files, although I don’t know if they can be ‘named’ like in MKV)
Plex will pick them up and you can jump from chapter to chapter.
On some clients, Plex will even show their chapter titles.
Here is an example from the web app:
How do I embed the chapter markings into the mkv video?
Is this something can be done in PLEX?
You download MKVtoolnixGUI
and use its Chapter Editor to create and name the chapter markers.
You can also use it to remux files from other container formats into MKVs without quality degradation.
So this is done by 3rd party app and not in PLEX?
Yes. Plex doesn’t change your media files.
So an external tool needs to be used.
This is a pro, IMHO. It ensures that those chapter markers will survive a server database crash and even the switch to a completely different player software.
is there a way to have a link to specific time in the video like you tube has for example
LINK: www . blabla. com / video10/topicB=30sec
No. Not in Plex.
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