Trailers

[bobbee001 4]

I have premier     I used and was content with PLEX for years, but their new interface is horrible. So I load emby, its real good except this trailer business is might confusing.

 

Scheduled tasks  don't see ytrailers, is it 

Radeon's Tools

Download Local YouTube Movie Trailers

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Edited October 14, 2025 by bobbee001

[bobbee001 4]

So I woke up this morning, trailers are showing up on Roku.

What finally fixed it is beyond me, but it  works. 

Took many confusing terms with simply trying to get movie trailers. If shouls be as simple as  download ytrailers from this address

                                                                                                                         Install in emby plugin directory

                                                                                                                         Set a, b and c

Thanks to those who provided this assistance. 

[bobbee001 4]

WAIT - I went on Roku and I had a couple of trailers, I now I didn't start plex in error because the trailer option was adjacent to the play etc

(on plex in is under).   Now it is 8am, NO TRAILERS ??????>

 

[Luke 42077]

Hi, do you mean no trailers in Emby?

[bobbee001 4]

Using Roku with emby, a movie showed pllay resume trailer etc all one the same line

I went back a few hours later, no trailer ?????

I am about ready to quit trying, frustration.
 

Edited October 15, 2025 by bobbee001

[Luke 42077]

14 minutes ago, bobbee001 said:

Using Roku with emby, a movie showed pllay resume trailer etc all one the same line

I went back a few hours later, no trailer ?????

I am about ready to quit trying, frustration.
 

HI, apologies for the frustration. Most of our other apps play trailers using youtube but unfortunately this is not possible on Roku, so that's why you need your own trailer video files.

Can you please show us an example of what you are explaining? Thanks.

[speechles 2055]

1 hour ago, Luke said:

HI, apologies for the frustration. Most of our other apps play trailers using youtube but unfortunately this is not possible on Roku, so that's why you need your own trailer video files.

Can you please show us an example of what you are explaining? Thanks.

@LukeHe is using ytrailers plugin from Radeon to acquire YouTube trailers locally with his media. They should always exist once downloaded.

@bobbee001It may show what is happening in your Emby Server logs. They should not be getting deleted. The plugin downloads the links from YouTube directly to the folder of the item it is scanning is in.

Edited October 15, 2025 by speechles

[bobbee001 4]

I ma traveling today, what is the recommendation for tomorrow

 

[speechles 2055]

5 hours ago, bobbee001 said:

I ma traveling today, what is the recommendation for tomorrow

 

The Radeons tools task for Local YouTube Movie Trailers shows stopping in your screenshot. You might need to restart Emby server. Then afterwards have it start that scheduled task again. It should just work.

Edited October 15, 2025 by speechles

[bobbee001 4]

I am back, windows 11 and the trailers are there

Roku - no trailer

 

[bobbee001 4]

[bobbee001 4]

Attached log file

embyserverlog.txt

[ebr 16169]

Hi.  Have you tried checking this box?

[bobbee001 4]

yes, as shown

 

[bobbee001 4]

AI response: 

In other words: If the YTrailers plugin is pulling trailers dynamically from YouTube (or similar web sources), that will show up in the server/web UI, but the Roku app will not show or allow those trailers.

Hence: trailers “work” when viewed from the server (or web client) but do not show on Roku.

[Happy2Play 9780]

10 minutes ago, bobbee001 said:

AI response: 

In other words: If the YTrailers plugin is pulling trailers dynamically from YouTube (or similar web sources), that will show up in the server/web UI, but the Roku app will not show or allow those trailers.

Hence: trailers “work” when viewed from the server (or web client) but do not show on Roku.

Sorry but I have local trailers with most of my media and Roku plays them just fine.  

If you do not have local trailers, they there will not be a trailer icon as Roku will not allow the URL to be launched in the Emby app.

[speechles 2055]

Quote

2025-10-16 14:49:16.053 Info LibraryMonitor: Winter Love Story - Trailer (D:\Light\Winter Love Story  2019 Hallmark 720p HDTV X264 Solar-trailer.mp4) will be refreshed.

Are your movies put into individual folders or just lumped together into the D:\Light directory? You will find the trailer in there that was downloaded then the library gets refreshed and it should show up. Are there trailers in D:\Light?

When you added the library did you add it as "D:\Light" or just "D:"?
If you add it as just "D" it may confuse the server with your subfolder structure.

Edited October 17, 2025 by speechles

[ebr 16169]

On 10/17/2025 at 11:10 AM, bobbee001 said:

yes, as shown

 

As shown, it is UNchecked.  Can you please try checking it?

[Luke 42077]

@bobbee001please let us know if this helps. Thanks.

[bobbee001 4]

I don't have local trailers

 

[ebr 16169]

1 hour ago, bobbee001 said:

I don't have local trailers

 

As explained previously, the Roku app cannot play the players directly from YT (well, they could but it would be a horrible user experience).

I thought that was why you installed that other plugin - to retrieve local trailers.

[Luke 42077]

4 hours ago, bobbee001 said:

I don't have local trailers

 

Right, for Emby on Roku you will need local trailer files. Hopefully we'll be able to use Youtube trailers in the future on Roku, but as of today, we cannot.