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00:00:00 – 00:15:23
In this instructional video, Lon Seidman offers a detailed walkthrough on integrating additional Blu-ray content, such as deleted scenes and trailers, into a Plex media library. He emphasizes employing the "local media assets" agent and following Plex's file organization guidelines to ensure proper indexing and presentation. Using examples like "Empire Strikes Back" and "Star Trek: Picard," Lon demonstrates the categorization and labeling of extra content by appending descriptive tags to filenames and placing them in correctly named folders. He illustrates refreshing the Plex server metadata to reflect new additions and managing these processes on both mobile and TV devices. Despite some current limitations on TV platforms, the extras appear correctly on mobile. Lon concludes with advice on keeping Plex clients and servers updated and encourages user engagement within the Plex community.
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In this segment of the video, Lon Seidman discusses how to add extras content, such as deleted scenes and trailers from a Blu-ray, to a Plex library. He mentions that Plex is introducing new features to integrate user-added extras alongside the content Plex provides. Lon emphasizes the importance of enabling the “local media assets” agent in the server settings to ensure the media is properly added. He also refers to support documents detailing different ways to organize files to make this feature work effectively. He demonstrates how to adjust settings and organize files to incorporate extras into the Plex media library.
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In this part of the video, the presenter explains how to organize and label extra content for movies in Plex. They categorize extras into types like behind the scenes, deleted scenes, and trailers, and then show how to append a descriptive tag to the file name. Using “Empire Strikes Back” as an example, the presenter renames a behind-the-scenes documentary file, adds it to a specific folder, and verifies that the Plex indexer correctly associates it with the main movie. Additionally, they demonstrate adding deleted scenes and check that they also appear correctly in Plex. They note limitations such as not being able to edit file names, descriptions, or thumbnails within Plex, but highlight that the files are integrated neatly with the main movie and not visible elsewhere on the server.
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In this segment of the video, the focus shifts to adding television shows to a Plex server, which is more complex due to the structure involving the show, seasons, and episodes. The presenter demonstrates this using the iPhone Plex client. They show how local file system organization is crucial and explain the process by using “Star Trek: Picard” as an example. The presenter creates specific folders for the show and its seasons, and then adds “extras” like blooper scenes by creating a correctly labeled “scenes” folder. They emphasize the importance of precise folder naming as dictated by Plex’s requirements. Finally, they explain how to manually trigger the Plex server to refresh metadata to include the new content, recommending users lock fields they do not want to change during this update.
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In this part of the video, the presenter focuses on managing metadata for TV shows in their media library software. They demonstrate how to refresh metadata after organizing files properly in order to separate extras by season. Initially, the bloopers were at the show level, but by moving the “scenes” folder into “season one” and refreshing the metadata, the bloopers are correctly categorized under season one. They show that although this change is visible on their phone, it’s not yet functional on TV devices. Additionally, the presenter explains how to add extras for individual episodes by appending a dash and the category (like “-deleted”) to the file name, using “Game of Thrones” as an example. They illustrate this by assigning a “behind the scenes” featurette to the first episode of “Star Trek Picard” season one.
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In this part of the video, the presenter discusses copying a file to the season one directory of their Plex server and refreshing the metadata so that the extra content appears under episode one of Star Trek Picard. They demonstrate that on their phone, since this feature is not yet supported on TVs. By assigning the extra content specifically to episode one, they show it does not appear under other episodes. The presenter encourages organizing data now using mobile platforms, as TV extras are fully integrated on them, and movies’ extras already work across most platforms. The video ends with a call to keep clients and servers updated and participate in the Plex community for future developments.
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