This article applies to the “Plex Movie” metadata agent for movie libraries, which was introduced with Plex Media Server version 1.20. This is separate from the older version of the agent, labeled “Plex Movie (Legacy)”.

Some settings below are common to all movie libraries and others are only available when the “Plex Movie” agent is selected.

Related Page: Creating Libraries

Common to All Movie Libraries

• Visibility: Restrict where content from this library should appear.
  • Include in home screen and global search
  • Exclude from home screen
  • Exclude from home screen and global search
• Enable Cinema Trailers: Allow Cinema Trailers to play before items in this library.
• Enable video preview thumbnails: Generate video preview thumbnails for items in this library when enabled in server settings.
  • DELETE PREVIEW THUMBNAILS
• Collections: How to display collections when browsing the library.
  • Disabled (will not show collections in the “Library” tab, will show the items in them)
  • Hide items which are in collections
  • Show collections and their items

Specific to the Plex Movie Agent

• Certification Country: This will influence which content rating system is used. Changing this setting will require refreshing the metadata for new information to be reflected on items.
• Use original titles: Use the original titles for all items, regardless of the library language.
• Prefer artwork based on library language: Use localized posters when available. This is determined by the library language setting.
• Use local assets: When scanning this library, use local posters and artwork if present. (Local subtitles files will be used whether this is enabled or not.)
• Prefer local metadata: When scanning this library, prefer embedded tags and local files if present.
• Find extras: Find trailers and extras automatically. (Plex Pass required)
• Only show trailers: When automatically finding extras, skip extras which aren’t trailers. (Plex Pass required)
• Allow red band trailers: Use red band (restricted audiences) trailers when available. (Plex Pass required)
• Localized subtitles: When automatically finding extras, include additional extras that have subtitles matching your library’s language. (Most users will prefer to not have this enabled.) (Plex Pass required)
• Allow matching to explicit content: Allow matching to adult/pornographic titles and returning adult titles in fix match results. This may hide the title from some features like your Watchlist.
• Minimum automatic collection size: Automatically create collections when there are more than the selected number of items for an available collection. Changing this value will have no effect on any existing collections. (“Disabled” means there is no minimum.)
  • Disabled,  1,  2,  3,  4
• Ratings Source: Select the rating source for this library (critic/user review rating, not content rating).
  • Rotten Tomatoes
  • IMDb
  • The Movie Database
• Enable credits detection: Allow the content to be analyzed to try and determine where the end credits occur. This is related to the ability to skip credits during playback. Note that this also requires the corresponding setting to be enabled in the server-level Library settings. (Plex Pass required)
• Ad detection: Determine whether the server will try to detect commercial breaks in the content. This is typically useful for broadcast content recorded by a DVR. Note that this also requires the corresponding setting to be enabled in the server-level Library settings (Plex Pass required)
  • Disabled
  • For recorded items
  • For all items
• Enable voice activity detection: Detect voice activity for items in this library to allow using the subtitle auto-sync functionality. Note that this also requires the corresponding setting to be enabled in the server-level Library settings. (Plex Pass required)