Sorting of Movie Versions

[tomthepom]

The Jellyfin documentation states that if you have multiple versions of the same movie they will be sorted according to file names - except if resolution names are included. So in the following case;

Great Movie (1986)
├── Great Movie (1986) - 1. Director's Cut.mkv
├── Great Movie (1986) - 2. Theatrical.mkv

then the Director's Cut should come first in the dropdown selection. Except this doesn't happen if, for example, the Director's Cut is 720p and the Theatrical is in 1080p - the Theatrical edition comes first. It seems as if Jellyfin is sorting movies primarily according to the actual movie resolution - even if you don't include the resolution name in the filename - and only then by filenames.
Am I doing something wrong here? Is there any way to enforce my own ordering?
(Jellyfin v. 10.9.1 server, Media Player 1.11.1, both running on the same Windows machine)

Tom

[Efficient_Good_5784]

Just to make sure there's no confusion here in your example:

• The Director's Cut version is 720p?
  
• The Theatrical version is 1080p?
  

Also, try renaming the files by removing the number before their version names:

Great Movie (1986)
├── Great Movie (1986) - Director's Cut.mkv
├── Great Movie (1986) - Theatrical.mkv

Maybe doing so won't fix the issue, but it's worth a shot.

[theguymadmax]

I’d recommend saving yourself the hassle with this issue. I’ve tried various naming schemes without success, and the highest resolution always ends up sorted first. I already have an open issue regarding this.

[tomthepom]

Just to make sure there's no confusion here in your example:

• The Director's Cut version is 720p?
  
• The Theatrical version is 1080p?
  

Yes

Also, try renaming the files by removing the number before their version names:

Great Movie (1986)
├── Great Movie (1986) - Director's Cut.mkv
├── Great Movie (1986) - Theatrical.mkv

Maybe doing so won't fix the issue, but it's worth a shot.

It doesn't. It should sort alphabetically but, again, the 1080p version always comes before the 720p.

[theguymadmax]

That's the expected behavior in 10.9. Dev's are updating the docs to reflect this. New proposed wording:

### Order of Versions

Movie versions are sorted by the width of the resolution in a descending order. The resolution from the media info is used. Multiple items with the same resolution will be sorted alphabetically.

[tomthepom]

That's the expected behavior in 10.9.

That's... unfortunate. Is there any way to override this? It would be nice to be able to choose my own ordering of movie versions.

[Efficient_Good_5784]

That's the expected behavior in 10.9.

That's... unfortunate. Is there any way to override this? It would be nice to be able to choose my own ordering of movie versions.

The only way now would be to physically make sure both versions are of the same resolution.