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I do not want video preview files displayed in my sports library, as it picks a random time and is a spoiler for the game score. I have set my specific sports library setting to uncheck the “Enable video preview thumbnails”, and I have set the global library settings to “Generate video preview thumbnails” to never.
Yet, I still have video preview thumbnails created with each new media. Please help, thanks in advance.
This isn’t anything you’ve done wrong (or misconfigured). Plex’s clients don’t offer any way to hide these. (They’re not video preview thumbnails, those are what are shown when you scrub through the timeline when watching a video.). These are episode posters. Plex scrapes them from metadata providers, if available, or picks a frame from the video if not.
I’m sure there’s already a feature suggestion for implementing “spoiler free” episode posters some where here on the feature suggestions forums, but I’m too lazy to search.
thanks for the response. I hope Plex will address this issue in a future update.
I’m thinking about this more and it’s most likely an easy fix to whatever code tells it to grab the image from the video file. If Plex just cropped the images it selects so that it removes the lower part of the screen that shows the scores. Or instead of cropping it just zoomed in the screen grab by 25%. Either way, it could still grab a screenshot that wouldn’t show the scores. problem solved. Come on Plex Support help me out here.
