Local Trailers Not Being Recognized

[msujester 1]

I've gone through all the forum posts on this and can not figure out what my issue is.  I've downloaded all trailers locally and followed the naming convention.  In fact, I've tried adding the '-trailers' naming convention at the end file and placing it in the same folder as the movie and I've tried placing it into a 'trailers' folder.  However, emby continues to stream the youtube trailers.  I wasn't using .nfo files; however I enabled it and rescanned and I see in the <trailer> tags that it's linking to the youtube videos.  What am I missing?  How to I get emby to see my local trailers?

I'm running 4.5.4.0.

I also am not seeing them on my Roku App, but I think it's probably related so I thought I'd start here.  Thank you in advance for any help as I can't think of what else to do.

[Abobader 3471]

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[roaku 842]

16 minutes ago, msujester said:

I've gone through all the forum posts on this and can not figure out what my issue is.  I've downloaded all trailers locally and followed the naming convention.  In fact, I've tried adding the '-trailers' naming convention at the end file and placing it in the same folder as the movie and I've tried placing it into a 'trailers' folder.  However, emby continues to stream the youtube trailers.  I wasn't using .nfo files; however I enabled it and rescanned and I see in the <trailer> tags that it's linking to the youtube videos.  What am I missing?  How to I get emby to see my local trailers?

I'm running 4.5.4.0.

I also am not seeing them on my Roku App, but I think it's probably related so I thought I'd start here.  Thank you in advance for any help as I can't think of what else to do.

Local trailers don't show up under the 'Trailers' tab, if that's where you're looking for them.

There are feature requests for that, but nothing yet.

For your movies with a local trailer, you should be able to see a trailer icon next to the play button when you visit the page for one of those movies.

Also, the Cinema Intros plugin should use your local trailers if you're using it.

[rbjtech 5285]

1 hour ago, msujester said:

I've gone through all the forum posts on this and can not figure out what my issue is.  I've downloaded all trailers locally and followed the naming convention.  In fact, I've tried adding the '-trailers' naming convention at the end file and placing it in the same folder as the movie and I've tried placing it into a 'trailers' folder.  However, emby continues to stream the youtube trailers.  I wasn't using .nfo files; however I enabled it and rescanned and I see in the <trailer> tags that it's linking to the youtube videos.  What am I missing?  How to I get emby to see my local trailers?

I'm running 4.5.4.0.

I also am not seeing them on my Roku App, but I think it's probably related so I thought I'd start here.  Thank you in advance for any help as I can't think of what else to do.

Can you give an example of the naming structure you use. 

https://support.emby.media/support/solutions/articles/44001159193

I tried both ways, and both worked fine ... 

[msujester 1]

Sure.  This is the standard file naming convention for my movies. Appreciate the help.

In response to the comment about the trailers tab.  I actually don't have a desire for them to be there, just noting that they weren't (which apparently isn't relevant).  On my Roku there is no trailers icon.  On the web interface, there is a trailer icon, but it doesn't play the local trailer, but streams the youtube trailer instead.

[msujester 1]

I should also add that I didn't use to have .nfo files.  I turned them on to see if there was any difference or if I could debug things in anyway.  After I turned them on, I rescanned my library.  For that file example I showed you, here is the <trailer> tag contents:

 <trailer>plugin://plugin.video.youtube/?action=play_video&amp;videoid=dp2CxCsK8nM</trailer>

It seems to ignore the local file and point to youtube.

[Happy2Play 9785]

Is this a flat structure or does each movie have a movie named folder?

If in a flat structure then yes there currently is a issue reported here.

[Emby Server] Trailers only supported in subdirectories - Could we fix it for better directory support? - General/Windows - Emby Community

8 minutes ago, msujester said:

On my Roku there is no trailers icon.  On the web interface, there is a trailer icon, but it doesn't play the local trailer, but streams the youtube trailer instead.

Yes as the Emby channel in not authorized to launch these YouTube url trailers on the Roku.

[msujester 1]

OH MAN, I think you nailed it!!  Ugh.  I never saw that anywhere.  I'll test it out in folders (yeah, that's gonna be some work).  But if that's it, I will be so happy.  Yes, they are all in a single folder.

[msujester 1]

On 3/26/2021 at 3:19 PM, Happy2Play said:

Is this a flat structure or does each movie have a movie named folder?

If in a flat structure then yes there currently is a issue reported here.

[Emby Server] Trailers only supported in subdirectories - Could we fix it for better directory support? - General/Windows - Emby Community

Yes as the Emby channel in not authorized to launch these YouTube url trailers on the Roku.

Once I put all the movies into their own folders, everything worked brilliantly.  In addition to playing the local trailers on the web interface, the Trailer Icon appeared on the Roku, and that plays my local trailers as well.  All is right in the world, thank you.

[Luke 42087]

Thanks for the feedback.