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Hello

 

I have read the wiki on naming multiple versions of movies

 

I have a couple

 

movieA - 1080p.mkv

movieA - 3840p.mkv

 

this seems to have worked as on the thumbnail it now shows a blue 2 in the top left.

 

How do I pick which version I want to watch?

 

thanks

Happy2Play
Posted (edited)

There is no way to manually select which version to play.  Auto select is suppose to choice the best one for the device/connection.

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Posted

Hi, welcome. Right now you don't choose. Emby apps will automatically choose which one is most efficient for them, and if they both require transcoding, then the higher quality one will be used. It is probably a good idea to allow for version selection though.

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MSattler
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Hi, welcome. Right now you don't choose. Emby apps will automatically choose which one is most efficient for them, and if they both require transcoding, then the higher quality one will be used. It is probably a good idea to allow for version selection though.

 

Could that then incorporate different versions of the movie as well?  Theatrical vs Extended, etc.

 

With moving everything to single mkv's, I have some movies where I want to keep multiple versions of the movie, and there is no difference in resolution, but rather a difference in content.

 

Thanks!

Spaceboy
Posted

I just put these in the extras folder

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I just put these in the extras folder

I do the same. I keep my prefered version in the main folder.

Deathsquirrel
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Could that then incorporate different versions of the movie as well?  Theatrical vs Extended, etc.

 

With moving everything to single mkv's, I have some movies where I want to keep multiple versions of the movie, and there is no difference in resolution, but rather a difference in content.

 

Thanks!

 

No, that needs to be done through collections right now.  Of course if they add UI to allow selection of different source files I don't see why it couldn't be used for both.  Of course once they add such a UI I expect end users to find it annoying and demand a user preference they can set ;)

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