Multiple versions of a video

[flo f]

I'm looking into a way of handling multiple version of a video (HD, 4k). I see jellyfin supports it for movies with a nice dropdown menu: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/movies

Does anyone know if:
1. There is a way to make it work with radarr? (e.g. with 2 instances of radarr)
2. Does it also work for TV Shows?

Thanks!

[34626]

First, a folder with:
Movie name (year)

In that folder put the files:
Movie name (year) - 576p
Movie name (year) - 720p
Movie name (year) - 1080p

You can find it here: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/movies/

[Efficient_Good_5784]

2. Does it also work for TV Shows?

As of right now (v10.8.13), no. You can only merge different versions of movies.

[Xenothar]

2. Does it also work for TV Shows?

As of right now (v10.8.13), no. You can only merge different versions of movies.

This is technically not correct. You can indeed group/merge TV-Shows as well. You have to do it manually for each episode though or automatically through a plugin called "Merge Versions". The manual way is tedious, as you have to long-leftclick the episode under "More from Season X" wihin the Episode Detail view. After that, click the second version of this episode and then the burger menu top right and choose "Group Versions". The behavior after refreshing the page is then the same as with movies, i.e. you get the dropdown, where you see the full filename and can select which version to watch. No more visual clutter and no automatic playback of the same episode over and over but in different versions.

One caveat, especially for TV Shows though: When autoplaying the next episode, it will automatically select the version alphabetically or by best quality (it seems to always play the highest quality version (not by title, but by actual video quality) according to my short testing). This means, it might always jump (back) to the highest quality after each episode, which might be precisely undesired.

[flo f]

2. Does it also work for TV Shows?

As of right now (v10.8.13), no. You can only merge different versions of movies.

This is technically not correct. You can indeed group/merge TV-Shows as well. You have to do it manually for each episode though or automatically through a plugin called "Merge Versions". The manual way is tedious, as you have to long-leftclick the episode under "More from Season X" wihin the Episode Detail view. After that, click the second version of this episode and then the burger menu top right and choose "Group Versions". The behavior after refreshing the page is then the same as with movies, i.e. you get the dropdown, where you see the full filename and can select which version to watch. No more visual clutter and no automatic playback of the same episode over and over but in different versions.

One caveat, especially for TV Shows though: When autoplaying the next episode, it will automatically select the version alphabetically or by best quality (it seems to always play the highest quality version (not by title, but by actual video quality) according to my short testing). This means, it might always jump (back) to the highest quality after each episode, which might be precisely undesired.

This is incredibly good info, thank you!