Completed Multiple Movie Editions

[Luke 37045]

Looking into this, can additional formats be added to recognize movies as apart from "title - version" another format greatly use is "title (year) [version] [extra data]" putting extra info in [] or {} maybe establish a standard of using one for version and another for video/audio codec to better differentiate between files. 

 

Yes certainly. I know you're handy with regexes so if you like I can point you to the code that handles this.

[jose 73]

Yes certainly. I know you're handy with regexes so if you like I can point you to the code that handles this.

Yes, please point me in the right direction it is been a while.

[horstepipe 356]

any chance we will see support for this nice feature in Emby for Kodi @@Angelblue05 ?

[jose 73]

Create a pull request to ignore info between [] for determining alternate versions.

https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby.Naming/pull/10

[Luke 37045]

Great, thanks.

[Pelon 160]

I love this feature, as now it becomes very easy to manage libraries. The I found the group function that allows to combine multiple movies, even if they are not in the same folder.

 

Now I have some questions:

When using the autoselect, what criteria does it use? Is it mostly by the file extension?

On devices where this is not supported, like Kodi or Roku, how does the pluggin select which file to add to/ show in the library?

The same goes for chapter extraction. How does it select from what file to extract the chapters?

When using the group function, how does it select which metadata to use?

 

I'm trying to organize my library and still have some 3D movies. They don't work on all devices and I would prefer the chapter extraction from the non-3D version. I want to be sure that the non-3D version is always used for everything, unless I manually select to play the 3D version.

[Luke 37045]

Auto-selection will favor whatever is determined to be the most efficient version for that device given the settings in the app. By efficient that generally means avoiding server transcoding.

[jhoff80 87]

I mentioned this in the testing thread, but it probably makes more sense as a part of the feature requests forum anyway.  It would also be really nice to have multiple version support for TV as well.  I'm sure one (of many) complicating factor is that some TV naming formats already include a dash in the file name to give the episode title though.

 

Two examples of where it would be useful for me.

 

-I've got the SD and HD versions of The Wire.  The former is as originally aired, the latter is cropped.  I'd like to be able to drop both into Emby and select in-app.

 

-My server is not powerful enough to transcode HEVC main 10 (and unfortunately GPU transcoding on the GTX1050 I added doesn't improve on that at all in Windows Server 2016 for some reason), so I'd like to keep a 1080p h.264 and a 4k h.265 version to select from.

[ebr 14910]

I mentioned this in the testing thread, but it probably makes more sense as a part of the feature requests forum anyway.  It would also be really nice to have multiple version support for TV as well.  I'm sure one (of many) complicating factor is that some TV naming formats already include a dash in the file name to give the episode title though.

 

Two examples of where it would be useful for me.

 

-I've got the SD and HD versions of The Wire.  The former is as originally aired, the latter is cropped.  I'd like to be able to drop both into Emby and select in-app.

 

-My server is not powerful enough to transcode HEVC main 10 (and unfortunately GPU transcoding on the GTX1050 I added doesn't improve on that at all in Windows Server 2016 for some reason), so I'd like to keep a 1080p h.264 and a 4k h.265 version to select from.

 

Multiple Resolutions for TV shows

[jhoff80 87]

My mistake, I had searched for "multi-version" and therefore didn't find anything.  Thanks.

[heciruam 23]

Is this feature now locked? Because I was hoping this would work different.

 

I don't want to rename the filenames of the movie just to be discovered as multible versions. I could live with having to put them in the same folder. So I would like to request a different solution where I just add in an .nfo or .txt file that will identify the name of the moviefile as well as what I want it say in emby like "4K" or "3D" ...

I have no idea how hard it is to implement this or if it is even possible in the near future.

 

Hopefully I'm not late to the party.

cheers

Edited February 22, 2018 by heciruam

[Deathsquirrel 741]

Is this feature now locked? Because I was hoping this would work different.

 

I don't want to rename the filenames of the movie just to be discovered as multible versions. I could live with having to put them in the same folder. So I would like to request a different solution where I just add in an .nfo or .txt file that will identify the name of the moviefile as well as what I want it say in emby like "4K" or "3D" ...

I have no idea how hard it is to implement this or if it is even possible in the near future.

 

Hopefully I'm not late to the party.

cheers

 

It's implemented and working as designed.  I'd suggest opening a new feature request.

[Lonald 9]

Is there a standard labelling for 4k versions?  I am starting to add some to my collection.

 

Thanks!

[Luke 37045]

Is there a standard labelling for 4k versions?  I am starting to add some to my collection.

 

Thanks!

 

No you can name them however you like in accordance with our multi-version naming guidelines.

[heciruam 23]

OK I might just open a new efature request.

 

Will text in [rectangular brackets] be ignored?

Edited February 23, 2018 by heciruam

[d00zah 127]

OK I might just open a new efature request.

 

Will text in [rectangular brackets] be ignored?

 

https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Wiki/wiki/Movie%20naming#multi-version-movies

[horstepipe 356]

Hey @@Luke

There's one little thing caught my eye that could be quite confusing for some people. When you merge a 3D movie and a not 3D movie in one folder, e.g.:

Ant-Man (2015)/Ant-Man (2015) - 3D-TAB.mkv
Ant-Man (2015)/Ant-Man (2015) - Normal.mkv

they show up in the Emby selection field as:

3D-TAB/3D
Normal/3D

So they both got the '/3D' string at the end. So users may think they're both 3D but different 3D formats.

 

Thanks

Edited March 17, 2018 by horstepipe

[Luke 37045]

Thanks for the info.

[shrouski 7]

Bit late to this, but how can I get it to work without renaming files? It's not very seeding friendly. I have the files in the same folder, almost exactly the same name apart from one has 1080p and one has 2160p, named as the original and for the life of me can't find a way to group them even manually. Plex shows it as 1 movie, but Emby 2.

 

Collections isn't the answer for that, as it still shows me 2 movies in the movie list).

[Luke 37045]

You can group manually using the multi-select tool. Please let us know if this helps. Thanks.

[shrouski 7]

You can group manually using the multi-select tool. Please let us know if this helps. Thanks.

 

Perfect, thanks. Took me longer than I'd like to admit to find the multi-select tool though lol

[heciruam 23]

Perfect, thanks. Took me longer than I'd like to admit to find the multi-select tool though lol

 

I'm still looking. Where do I find this multi select tool?

[shrouski 7]

I'm still looking. Where do I find this multi select tool?

 

Just long click on a movie poster / name and it will come up

[Luke 37045]

I plan to rework the entry point into multi-select to help make it more obvious. Thanks.

[shrouski 7]

Just a note, after merging a 1080p and 2160p version into the same group, I watched the 4K one but the 1080p remains unwatched. If they're grouped I would imagine the desired effect would be to mark both as watched?

 

Even after forcing an import from Trakt it still doesn't mark the other one as watched.

 

Also in collections it still lists them as separate movies, not sure if that again is by design or not.