Difference between movies and home videos? why actors' home videos are not showing?

[xiosensei 30]

I understand there is a difference in tv shows and movies in that tv shows has multiple episodes therefore the UI is different and the folder structure is different. But, what is the difference between movies and home videos? other than that movies are forced to display a poster image and home videos are forced to display a thumb image instead. + metadata for movies but that is about it! What I am leading to is that movies and home videos should be treated the same and that is not the case right now. I have a lot of home videos where I added custom actors in it to represent the people in the video. However, when I click on those actors it does not show a list of home videos that the actors participate in, unlike the movie actors which will shows you the actor's movies if you click on the actor. I believe this is intentional! But I do not understand the limitation. What is the harm of viewing actor home videos? The more that I am using emby server, the more I realize how it is very picky on small things that could have been left untouched!

[PenkethBoy 2068]

Hi

 

a couple of things

 

1. Movies are not forced to be posters - you can change that on the movie page at the top - click the "grid" icon

2. Home videos are not forced to be thumb either - you can change that on the home video page - click the ... next to "filter"

 

If you want your home videos to behave like movies - the simple solution if to create them as a movie library - you can have as many as you want - i would turn off the metadata providers for these libraries as they are not going to find anything and would slow down your library scan toa degree looking up your actors and "movies" everytime it runs.

 

No need for movies and homevideos to be treated the same - its better they are different - to suit different situations or needs.

 

Emby is flexible and thats good

 

Have fun

Edited July 28, 2018 by PenkethBoy

[xiosensei 30]

Hi

 

a couple of things

 

1. Movies are not forced to be posters - you can change that on the movie page at the top - click the "grid" icon

2. Home videos are not forced to be thumb either - you can change that on the home video page - click the ... next to "filter"

 

If you want your home videos to behave like movies - the simple solution if to create them as a movie library - you can have as many as you want - i would turn off the metadata providers for these libraries as they are not going to find anything and would slow down your library scan toa degree looking up your actors and "movies" everytime it runs.

 

No need for movies and homevideos to be treated the same - its better they are different - to suit different situations or needs.

 

Emby is flexible and thats good

 

Have fun

by default and on the home page they are forced to be a poster for movies and thumb for home videos. and in some platforms, such as roku, you have less control over this.

 

The issue is how they treat actors differently as the actor page does not display home videos featuring that actor while it does for movies.

Edited July 29, 2018 by xiosensei

[jordy 284]

Hey, I think the distinction is:

 

Movies are generally videos that are commercially produced and which have metadata available for them

 

Home Videos - are just that - home made (camcorder etc) videos or like me where they are Sporting events captured from the TV and kept for posterity - no known actors or metadata available.

[Luke 42085]

At this point now that we have all the per-library settings, there isn't a whole lot of difference because you can take a movie library, disable a number of features on it and then it's more or less the same as home videos.

 

The only real difference now is the tabbed presentation for movie libraries, with different metadata related categories in each tab.

 

As far as actors in home videos, yes it's something we'll need to add. Thanks.