How to exclude specific TV shows from merging?

[DPaO Chow]

I have a bunch of TV series.

All of them works great in jellyfin. We know it's 2024 now, the HDR HEVC DV PQ HLG HDR10+ things become more and more widespread.

My jellyfin server has nearly 80 users, and most of them are students, not having modern smart TVs, not having latest android / apple phones.

Sometimes i got a TV series of DV P5 format, and as a result, most of my users cannot playback in right way. Most of them will have an error decode or hit server transcoding.

For me, I planned to download another version of the same TV Series, e.g. FHD SDR version.

However, with the plugin Merge Versions and "Automatically merge series that are spread across multiple folders" option enabled, the series will be automatically merged into the same series object, looking like there are repeated episodes in one Season with definitely the same metadatas, cannot tell which is DV P5, which is normal SDR.

Anyway to seperate 2 different version of TVs under the same library folder?

I have to admit that the folder management of my media resources is a little bit messy:

[TheDreadPirate]

Not in the current version of Jellyfin. Version 10.9 will. There is currently no ETA on when that will be released.