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Movies

Movies should usually be in the library root directory or in a subfolder for the individual films. The subfolders allow for organization of metadata and images. Adding the year at the end in parentheses will yield the best results when scraping metadata.

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In order to help with identifying a movie, Jellyfin can make use of media provider identifiers. This can be specified in your movie's file or folder name, for example: Film (2010) [imdbid-tt0106145].mp4 or Film (2018) [tmdbid-65567]

Movies
├── Film (1990).mp4
├── Film (1994).mp4
├── Film (2008)
│   └── Film.mkv
└── Film (2010)
    ├── Film-cd1.avi
    └── Film-cd2.avi
ISO Files and other Disc Images

While Jellyfin should work with .iso files and other images, it is explicitly unsupported. It is recommended that those be extracted to BDMV or VIDEO_TS folders or remuxed to .mkv video files. Regardless of the source format, menus are not support and only the main titles will be played.

Multiple Versions of a Movie​

Multiple versions of a movie can be stored together and presented as a single title. Place each movie version in the same folder and give each version a name with the folder name as a prefix as seen below.

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The prefix has to be an exact match of the folder name for the versioning to work, that includes any media provider identifiers such as [imdbid-tt12801262]

Movies
├── Best_Movie_Ever (2019)
│   ├── Best_Movie_Ever (2019) - 1080P.mp4
│   ├── Best_Movie_Ever (2019) - 720P.mp4
│   └── Best_Movie_Ever (2019) - Directors Cut.mp4
└── Movie (2021) [imdbid-tt12801262]
    ├── Movie (2021) [imdbid-tt12801262] - 2160p.mp4
    ├── Movie (2021) [imdbid-tt12801262] - 1080p.mp4
    └── Movie (2021) [imdbid-tt12801262] - Directors Cut.mp4

To distinguish between versions, each filename needs to have a space, hyphen, space, and then a label. Labels are not predetermined and can be made up by the user.

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The hyphen is required. Periods, commas and other characters are not supported.

Additionally, labels can be placed between brackets with the same result as seen below.

Movies
└── Best_Movie_Ever (2019)
    ├── Best_Movie_Ever (2019) - [1080P].mp4
    ├── Best_Movie_Ever (2019) - [720P].mp4
    └── Best_Movie_Ever (2019) - [Directors Cut].mp4

If labels are not added to the end of filenames, as shown above, each file will be treated as a unique movie and not a version of the same movie.

Order of Versions​

Movie versions are presented in an alphabetically sorted list. An exception applies to resolution names, which are sorted in descending order from highest to lowest resolution. A version name qualifies as a resolution name when ending with either a p or an i.

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The first movie version in the list is the one selected by default.

Examples of Sorting​

  • 1080p, 2160p, 360p, 480p, 720p → 2160p, 1080p, 720p, 480p, 360p
  • Extended Cut, Cinematic Cut, Director's Cut → Cinematic Cut, Director's Cut, Extended Cut
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To group media manually, long-click or right-click media to highlight then select additional media to merge. Use the new bar that appears to 'Group Versions'.

Movie Extras​

Movie extras can include deleted scenes, interviews, and other various things that you would want to include alongside your movie. Jellyfin supports several different methods of adding these files.

Extras Folders​

One of the cleanest ways of adding extras is to place them in subfolders within your movie folder.

Supported folder types are:

  • behind the scenes
  • deleted scenes
  • interviews
  • scenes
  • samples
  • shorts
  • featurettes
  • clips
  • other - Generic catch all for extras of an unknown type.
  • extras - Generic catch all for extras of an unknown type.
  • trailers
Movies
└── Best_Movie_Ever (2019)
    ├── Best_Movie_Ever (2019) - 1080P.mp4
    ├── Best_Movie_Ever (2019) - 720P.mp4
    ├── Best_Movie_Ever (2019) - Directors Cut.mp4
    ├── behind the scenes
    │   ├── Making of the Best Movie Ever.mp4
    │   └── Finding the right score.mp4
    ├── interviews
    │   └── Interview with the Director.mp4
    └── extras
        └── Home recreation.mp4

File Name​

Some types of extras support a special option if you only have a single of that type. These options are to name the filename a specific word when stored in the same folder as the movie.

Supported filenames are:

  • trailer
  • sample
  • theme - Audio file of the theme song
Movies
└── Best_Movie_Ever (2019)
    ├── Best_Movie_Ever (2019) - 1080P.mp4
    ├── sample.mp4
    ├── theme.mp3
    └── trailer.mp4

File Suffix​

If you would rather keep everything in a single folder, you can append special suffixes to the filename which Jellyfin picks up and uses to identify the file as an extra. Note that, with a few noted exceptions, these suffixes DO NOT contain any spaces.

  • -trailer
  • .trailer
  • _trailer
  • trailer - This is a space followed by the word trailer
  • -sample
  • .sample
  • _sample
  • sample - This is a space followed by the word sample
  • -scene
  • -clip
  • -interview
  • -behindthescenes
  • -deleted
  • -deletedscene
  • -featurette
  • -short
  • -other
  • -extra
Movies
└── Best_Movie_Ever (2019)
    ├── Best_Movie_Ever (2019) - 1080P.mp4
    ├── That clip that I want everyone to see-clip.mp4
    ├── Release Trailer-trailer.mp4
    ├── Preview Trailer.trailer.avi
    ├── Release Trailer 2_trailer.avi
    ├── Teaser.sample.mp4
    ├── Favorite Scene-scene.mp4
    ├── The Best Ever-clip.mp4
    ├── Making of The Best Movie Ever-behindthescenes.mp4
    ├── Not the best scene-deleted.mp4
    ├── Theme Song Music Video-featurette.mp4
    └── Art of the Best Movie Ever-short.mp4

3D Movies​

The parser can recognize 3D files automatically if the proper tags are added to the file name, or you can manually assign the 3D attribute to a file using Jellyfin's metadata editor to select the correct 3D format. The metadata editor is accessible from the context menu on each item.

To identify 3D content by filename, the first tag is 3D, which must be combined with one of the following tags to specify the specific 3D format:

  • hsbs = half side by side
  • fsbs = full side by side
  • htab = half top and bottom
  • ftab = full top and bottom
  • mvc = Multiview Video Coding

The tags are case-insensitive and must be surrounded by either a space, hyphen -, dot . or underscore _.

Awesome 3D Movie (2022).3D.FTAB.mp4
Awesome 3D Movie (2022)_3D_htab.mp4
Awesome 3D Movie (2022)-3d-hsbs.mp4

Additionally, 3D filename tags can be combined with the grouping functionality documented above. All text before the hyphen must match the folder name.

Movies
└── Awesome 3D Movie (2022)
    ├── Awesome 3D Movie (2022) - 3D_FTAB.mp4
    ├── Awesome 3D Movie (2022) - 3D.hsbs.mp4
    └── Awesome 3D Movie (2022) - 1080p.mp4
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There is no tag for anaglyph 3D content.

Images​

The following files may also be embedded into video containers that support it (such as mkv) and will be read out by the Embedded Image Extractor if enabled as an Image Extractor on the library configuration page.

Poster​

  • folder.ext
  • poster.ext
  • cover.ext
  • default.ext
  • movie.ext

Examples:

Movie (2010)/poster.jpg

Backdrop​

  • backdrop.ext
  • fanart.ext
  • background.ext
  • art.ext
  • extrafanart/*.ext

Examples:

Movie (2010)/fanart.jpg for the first backdrop image

Movie (2010)/extrafanart/fanart1.jpg, Movie (2010)/extrafanart/fanart2.jpg, etc for additional backdrop images

  • logo.ext
  • clearlogo.ext

Example:

Movie (2010)/logo.png