4K Duplicates

[Guest]

Right, that is the only way currently, I am requesting a built in better way though. One where you can keep versions, but also a way where if I play a movie, only one thing shows up in the continue watching feed.

That way if Grim was continuing something on mobile, he could still use the dropdown after clicking on the movie in continue watching, but for anyone continuing the same version of the movie, its already defaulted to that version. I hope that makes sense. 

[Carlo 4561]

It does make sense but you're loosing out on built in functionality that is already in place for handling multiple versions of the same movie (same meta-data provider IDs).
The way it will work if you setup your media similar to what I mentioned is that you can in fact stop playing the movie and continue it on another player or location and choose a different version if appropriate.

The Emby App itself is designed to pick a version that can direct play as well so that helps end-users.

If I understand what you're asking for correctly, this type of change would break existing Emby functionality that does work quite well. It's kind of like you're asking for a solution that doesn't exist if you setup the media the way it's designed to work.

[Guest]

So If I set all of my 4k versions in the same folders as their other versions, then play one of them and stop it halfway. The continue watching feed will have one video, not two, and the version that would play by default when continuing would be the version I was playing last, not any other version?

If that is how it works currently, then my problem isn't as much of a problem. If not, that is what I am asking for, preferably without installing another plugin, which is the same suggestion I got when I asked for better statistics.

[Carlo 4561]

I wouldn't do it that way but instead the way I described earlier so that you have the ability to only give 4K access to those who can play it.

[Guest]

What I'm requesting shouldn't give access to 4k if it is not desired. Its simply for emby to realize there are two versions of something, and to keep track of which one I was using. If I click on a movie that has a 4k version, and I shouldn't have access to it, then I shouldn't have access to it.

I think where I have tripped us up here is by saying "set all of my 4k versions in the same folders as their other versions", which isn't what I really want. -'tis my bad.

I would like to have my two folders still one with 4K and one with not 4K movies. I would like emby to be able to recognize there are two unique movies which share the same title / provider id, and if I have access to both of them, give me the drop down. If I don't have access, don't give me access. But since emby now has the ability to notice there are two versions, why not just show one card, then I can pick the other version if I want to, while knowing most of the time, I want the version that I was using last.

I hope that clarifies what I am asking for.

[Carlo 4561]

What you're asking for sounds exactly like the setup I gave above.

[Guest]

Like I said before, I don't want to keep installing and managing plugins separate from emby. 

Oh well. Hoping it changes, if not, other options exist and I can live with that.

[Carlo 4561]

You can multi-version the files manually as well from the UI by selecting two media files, using the 3 dot menu top right and selecting group versions.
If you want to split them back apart go to the detail screen and scroll down to the bottom right above the media info section and you'll see a button to split them.

The plugin actually just automatically makes the same database changes you do manually.  So you could load the plugin, let it do it's thing and then remove it.

Like I mentioned before you would need to add a mount point to the 4K media for your normal movie library but once you've done that you could test this with one or two files manually grouping them.  Just hide the 4K library (instead of removing it for now) so you won't see any entries from it in search or continue rows.

That's pretty easy to do.