I am unable to get the pre-roll video to work. I have followed the Plex Guide and searched the internet for known issues. Some people says it a version issue. I run the latest.
I created a pre-roll video with Blender and added it to my Plex library under its own library folder called pre-roll. I can play it manually so it does play. After I added it, I went to the library and copied the URL for the video and pasted into the server settings under extras. I have also gave access to that library to everyone. No matter what device is used (web, roku, windows 8 app, android, etc) to watch the movie, the pre-roll won't run.
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PLEX now allows for randomized pre-roll trailers/videos prior to movie plays. Here's twenty examples I've patched together (I used some online marketing site. In such a situation, according to Plex they wouldn't see any trailers, but would they see the pre-roll? EDIT: I've been using plex for years, but I've never bothered looking into pre-rolls until now (I sort of forgot it was even an option until I stumbled into this subreddit). I have a lifetime plex sub, so no easy way to test my second question. A quick, simple intro for Plex users:). Part of the upcoming Spring series. Personalization available! What's new Vimeo Record: video messaging for teams Vimeo Create: quick and easy video-maker Get started for free. Jun 18, 2015 I created a short video to run before movies. When I go into Settings-Server (Advanced Settings) - Extras, I was hoping to be able to be able to put the location of the file on my PC but it looks like I need to add it to a library and then reference it. I added the file to a library and then went into the details of the file and grabbed the URL. In the help page it showed the URL with a full.
Here are my settings:
Plex version: 09.11.13 (Plex Pass version 0.9.1113.874)
My URL
Movie Pre Roll Plex
Plex version: 09.11.13 (Plex Pass version 0.9.1113.874)
My URL
Movie Pre Roll Plex
I have tried the http://localhost:32400/web/ url as well and that didn't work either
Create Plex Pre Roll Video
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I couldn't find any solutions for this in the forum, so I wrote a quick script to do this myself. If anyone has ideas for improvements let me know.
Here is the script and explanation/notes follow:
#!/bin/sh
# All echos are for debugging
# Get a count of the files in the pre-roll library minus default
NUM_FILES=ls /media/pre-roll | grep -v default.mkv |wc -l | sed -e 's/^[ ]*//'
#echo 'NUM_FILES=$NUM_FILES'
# Now Generate a random number between 1 and NUM_FILES
# I'm getting the random number from www.random.org
RANDNUM=wget -qO- https://www.random.org/integers/?num=1&min=1&max='$NUM_FILES'&col=1&base=10&format=plain&rnd=new
#echo 'RANDNUM=$RANDNUM'
# Go to the RANDNUM file and then copy it to default.mkv
FILE=ls /media/pre-roll | grep -v default.mkv | head -'$RANDNUM' | tail -1
#echo 'FILE=$FILE'
cp /media/pre-roll/$FILE /media/pre-roll/default.mkv
My Libraries are located under /media for my install.
I created a pre-roll library.
I downloaded some pre-roll video into my library. Then I created a default.mkv file by copying an existing video to that. I had to split the video as Plex recognized that it was a duplicate. Then I copied the url for my default.mkv file and pasted that in the pre-roll location in extras.
The script is located in my root directory in the jail that my plex media server is running in for freenas.
I'm assuming that all my pre-roll video files are mkv. If the formats are different then the script will not work as the default.mkv file will obviously not be the right type.
The script is running as root.
Finally, I set up a cronjob to run the script once a day at 3am:
0 3 * * * /pre-roll_update.sh
Hope you find this useful and feedback is always appreciated!
