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Problem with movie extras - Ginosergio - 2024-08-13
Problem with movie extras
I have a movie with a couple of extra videos. Following the instructions in Jellyfin help, I then named:
Movie Title (2010) - 1080.mkv
Movie Title (2010) - 1080 - The Writing-interview.mkv
Movie Title (2010) - 1080 - The Story-behindthescenes.mkv
but these extras do not appear anywhere! Where am I going wrong?
All the movies and also these extras are in the same folder, I did NOT create a folder for each movie.... but I see that it is an acceptable solution and explained in the help.
RE: Problem with movie extras - Efficient_Good_5784 - 2024-08-13
You're adding too much to the filenames. You are forced to use the special suffixes mentioned in the guide. You can't make up your own for extras. https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/movies/#file-suffix
The way you're doing it, Jellyfin is mostly trying to group them together instead. Remove everything and only keep a single dash.
If you want to keep your filenames like that, I would try using folders as described here: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/movies/#extras-folders
RE: Problem with movie extras - Ginosergio - 2024-08-15
Hi !!
Thank you for your answer.
The suffixes that I'm using are mentioned in the page
https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/movies/#file-suffix
I cut the file names as follow:
Movie Title (2010).mkv
Movie Title (2010) The Writing-interview.mkv
Movie Title (2010) The Story-behindthescenes.mkv
only a single dash left.
That does not work anyway.
WHERE should I see the extras ?
As new tiles following the movie tile in the folder view ?
Or somewhere in the movie page where I see the metadatata, actors photos, etc ??
RE: Problem with movie extras - theguymadmax - 2024-08-15
I think your going to have to bite the bullet and make folders. Also, don't add the movie title to your extras. Try the below example.
Movie (2010)
--Movie Title (2010) - 1080.mkv
--The Writing-interview.mkv
--The Story-behindthescenes.mkv
You'll see specials under the cast & crew section.
RE: Problem with movie extras - Ginosergio - 2024-08-15
OK, OK
I have finally understood.
The help say "File Suffix: If you would rather keep everything in a single folder, you can append special suffixes to the filename which Jellyfin picks up....."
This does NOT mean that I can keep the movie and extras in the same folder as ALL OTHER movies (my desire) but I have to create a specific folder for that movie, anyway.
SAD thing, I don't want a million folders...
Anyway now it works
RE: Problem with movie extras - Efficient_Good_5784 - 2024-08-15
(2024-08-15, 04:40 PM)Ginosergio Wrote: This does NOT mean that I can keep the movie and extras in the same folder as ALL OTHER movies (my desire) but I have to create a specific folder for that movie, anyway.The amount of folders should not affect the performance of using Jellyfin. You wont even have to see the media and their folders as you'll be accessing the media through Jellyfin's GUI and not a file browser.
SAD thing, I don't want a million folders...
As you discovered, Jellyfin will need each movie and its extras to be in their own movie subfolder for the extras to be picked up without having them in yet another subfolder.
Also something that you might want to know. As a single folder starts growing in size (amount of items it contains), your OS will start struggling to open it and navigate through it. As in, it will eventually start taking more time to load the directory properly.