(2025-10-30, 04:47 AM)jellykrabbypatty Wrote: I don't understand the question. What do you want to group together? The 1080p and 4K files into one library? Or movies and shows into one library?
I have two Arrs stacks, one for SD to 1080p and one for 4K. In emby and Plex if I have a show in 1080p and 4K downloaded into their folders, Emby shows it as a single episode and I can pick the 1080p or 4K from a dropdown, or it just plays the correct version depending what I am watching it on (at work it is 1080p) and at home it's 4K.
Jellyfin shows it as one show but when I go into a season, it shows two episodes versions for each episode.
(2025-10-30, 08:22 AM)Necromind Wrote: I understood the question, I think. I have such files also grouped in different folders.
But I don't get it why JF should switch between different versions of the same movie, depending on the client watching it.
Since Jellyfin does a very efficient transcoding just keep the "best quality" of a file and JF manage the client capabilities automaticlly by transcoding the file in the required format.
I think the wrong way here is, putting lots of different encodings of the same file in this common library. There is no need to do so. It's simply wasted storage space.
So I think the issue is trying to adapt an old concept to JF, without the need to do so.
It's more about not wanting to transcode, due to it not working great all the time, and storage is so cheap, I'd rather just have 1080p/4k versions since I watch things all over the place (work, travel, etc)
(2025-10-30, 07:36 AM)Jarrod Jaiz Wrote: What do you mean? I don't understand why you have to group folders like this. So you can easily share media to platforms by quality group?
Because I don't want two separate libraries for quality.
I am trying to figure out why Jellyfin can't handle this like every other media server does.