How to add Extra DVDs?

[jellyfin]

I was searching both the documentation and the forum, but could not find a solution for this:

Movies like "Pirates of the Caribbean" have not only extras on the DVD, but 2 WHOLE DVDs with extras and stuff!

I tried to arrange them like this:

Code:

-- Pirates of the Caribbean/
      Pirates of the Caribbean.mkv
      EXTRAS/
         v01.mkv
         v02.mkv
         ...
      Pirates of the Caribbean - Extras 1/
         EXTRAS/
            v01.mkv
            v02mkv
            ...
      Pirates of the Caribbean - Extras 2/
         EXTRAS/
            v01.mkv
            v02mkv
            ...

As subfolders of the movie folder, with a sole EXTRAS folder with all content, so that those extras will not show up as movies.
But this will not be found by Jellyfin.

What else could I do?

[TheDreadPirate]

Our documentation for extras is here.

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server...vie-extras

The folder needs to be named "extras".

Code:

chris@rat-trap:/media/library/Movies$ tree HalloweenTown/
HalloweenTown/
├── extras
│  └── behind the scenes.mkv
└── HalloweenTown.mkv

   

If your server is running Linux, double check file and folder permissions.

[jellyfin]

Our documentation for extras is here.

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server...vie-extras

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Dear @TheDreadPirate, thanks for your reply, but it seems you did not read what I posted or even the subject line.

The DVDs I talk about already have extras, which I put into a "EXTRAS" folder - and they work fine!
So no problem here (on macOS) ...

I was asking about adding whole Extra DVDs to a movie!

I gave an example above, where I have the working EXTRAS folder in the movie's folder, but there are two (2) additional Extra DVDs for this movie!
And I find no way to added them to the move, as I tried to explain above with sub-folders and all content within them in a separate EXTRAS folder - they will not be found!

Any idea?

[theguymadmax]

How about trying this structure:
-- Pirates of the Caribbean/

      Pirates of the Caribbean.mkv

      EXTRAS/

         Disk0 v01.mkv

         Disk0 v02.mkv

         Disk1 v01.mkv

         Disk1 v02.mkv

         Disk2 v01.mkv

         Disk2 v02.mkv

[jellyfin]

Let me add on this:

I cannot just add of the content from those two extra DVDs to the movie's EXTRA folder as I want to have the content of each DVD separately - so that I know, which content belongs to which DVD. Therefor my try with the sub-folders and have everything in an EXTRAS folder within that.
But Jellyfin does not seem to decent into those sub-folders.

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How about trying this structure:
-- Pirates of the Caribbean/

      Pirates of the Caribbean.mkv

      EXTRAS/

         v01 Disk1.mkv

         v02 Disk1.mkv

         v01 Disk2.mkv

         v02 Disk2.mkv

         v01 Disk3.mkv

         v02 Disk3.mkv

Just separate them by renaming?
That could work as workaround.

But some way to have separate folders seems more natural ....

Thanks for the idea!

[jellyfin]

How about trying this structure:
-- Pirates of the Caribbean/

      Pirates of the Caribbean.mkv

      EXTRAS/

         Disk0 v01.mkv

         Disk0 v02.mkv

         Disk1 v01.mkv

         Disk1 v02.mkv

         Disk2 v01.mkv

         Disk2 v02.mkv

I did that now for the 3 Pirate movies I have, and while it is not very elegant to rename files in such a way, it works!
Many thanks.

Do you have an idea how to handle separate extra DVDs?

I mean, for the Alien Quadrupology and for the Back to the Futures movies, there is an extra DVD that does NOT belong to one of the movies, but is completely separate - it may contain stuff for all of the movies, or separate from the movies.
This should normally be in it's own folder ... but this does not work in Jellyfin!

When I put all the content into a sub-folder EXTRAS, they do not appear at all - as there is no movie in this directory (not even in Folder mode).
But when I just have them directly in a folder, all the little video files show up as regular movies, which is of course even worse.

Thinking about this, I see no solution for this problem.
It seems, folders are nothing that is liked by Jellyfin ;-)

To use such DVDs at all, it seems that I need to rename according to you idea and add the extra DVD to one of the movie folders, which is logically wrong ... but otherwise it does not work at all.

[TheDreadPirate]

If the extras belong to the same movie, why would they need to be an entirely separate folder?  Doesn't matter that it is a separate disk.  A LOT of extras are on entirely separate discs.  They are extras for that movie.  But on a separate disc.

The names for your extras is almost 100% arbitrary (there are a few reserved words).

[jellyfin]

If the extras belong to the same movie, why would they need to be an entirely separate folder?  Doesn't matter that it is a separate disk.  A LOT of extras are on entirely separate discs.  They are extras for that movie.  But on a separate disc.

The names for your extras is almost 100% arbitrary (there are a few reserved words).

I just like to have separate DVDs in distinct folders.
And when extra DVDs belong to a certain movie, it is OK for me to add them into a OTHER or FEATURETTES sub-folder.
But when the DVD does not really belong to a movie, I don't like to do this.

Sadly Jellyfin forces me to do this, as EXTRAS in a a separate folder (without a an actual movie) do not show up at all - even in "Folder" mode.
And adding them in their own folder but not within some EXTRAS folder let's them show up as separate movies each.

So, no good solution here.

I finally did it like this, added regular extras of a movie to it's EXTRAS sub-folder, while separate extra DVD of a movie did go into the OTHER and FEATURETTES sub-folders.
And for the extra DVD, I just but them into the FEATURETTES sub-folder of the last of the movies - not idea, to be honest.

I think, the better solution would be to scan sub-folders and remain at the standards otherwise.

This way, separate extra DVDs could have their own folder, which is empty beside one EXTRAS folder and would not show up as movie, but the content from the EXTRAS sub-folder would show up in "Folder" mode.
That would be a clean way to handle this common situation.

Thanks for your help!