In the instructions it says you can play multiple videos using a comma, or you can play a single random video using a semicolon.

Has anyone tried combining this? Say I want to have a random preroll & the same 2nd video before each movie. Something like this:
Old refreshment movie

Would this work?

/path/to/preroll1.mov,/path/to/treats.mov;/path/to/preroll2.mov,/path/to/treats.mov;/path/to/preroll3.mov,/path/to/treats.mov

Hit me up!

Does anyone have a copy of a preroll that starts with a typical studio opening but cuts to the jump scare?

I have not been able to find it anywhere.

Hey all, I'm looking for something I came across recently but stupidly forgot to bookmark. I could have sworn it was here, but maybe not. What I'm looking for is a preroll video message that says something along the lines of "The video you're about to watch is a product of its times, some depictions and language are not considered appropriate today. Rather than censor this content, we want to preserve it"

Any help is greatly appreciated - thank you!

Is there a way to specify specific prerolls to specific genres?

Spooky prerolls for horror, funny ones for comedy etc ...

Greetings! Just found this sub and have been searching through for an answer but am coming up short.

Is it possible to add a pre-roll to videos played from a playlist?

I've added all my xmas specials to a playlist and I would like to have the CBS special intro play before all of them.

Thanks!

I went a bit crazy making these because i thought it was pretty awesome so i went the futurama route and made about 24 different prerolls with short jokes to play randomly before movies

https://reddit.com/link/1h11034/video/o2h9il0k4f3e1/player

Hello, I'd like to know how to go about asking someone to create a pre-roll. About what would it cost? What software would you use to create it?

Hi, so my issue is, I'm able to set a single preroll to play before a movie, but if I add a second one separated by a semi colon and no space, no prerolls play. I'm currently trying to get a random preroll of the 7 I have to play before movies and this is the exact path copied from the entry in my web app. ‪

P:\prerolls\80s_Funky_Logo_1080p.mp4;‪P:\prerolls\Crystal_Water_Opener_1080p-black_pearl.mp4;‪P:/prerolls\HiTech_Neon_Opener_1080p.mp4;‪P:\prerolls\Neon_Pixels_Opener_1080p-black.mp4;‪P:\prerolls\Quick_Neon_Layers_Intro_1080p.mp4;‪P:\prerolls\Simple_Particles_Logo_Reveal_1080p.mp4;‪P:\prerolls\Stone_Gravity_Opener_1080p.mp4

I have cinema trailers enabled on the movies library and have tried setting play trailers before movie at 1 and at none and neither seem to make it work.

Is there a maximum for different prerolls or some setting I am missing for it to work?

EDIT: Replaced all \ with / but still not working with more than 1 video.

Copied current entry under preroll in plex in case I missed any other errors

‪P:/prerolls/80s_Funky_Logo_1080p.mp4;‪P:/prerolls/Crystal_Water_Opener_1080p-black_pearl.mp4;‪P:/prerolls/HiTech_Neon_Opener_1080p.mp4;‪P:/prerolls/Neon_Pixels_Opener_1080p-black.mp4;‪P:/prerolls/Quick_Neon_Layers_Intro_1080p.mp4;‪P:/prerolls/Simple_Particles_Logo_Reveal_1080p.mp4;‪P:/prerolls/Stone_Gravity_Opener_1080p.mp4

This is one of my favorite BLR videos, so i turned it into a preroll.

https://reddit.com/link/1gv7p01/video/izbuphev8x1e1/player

As with most of my prerolls, this a bit over 30 seconds so some may not be interested, but i like it and i figure some others will too.

https://reddit.com/link/1gv7lqz/video/9mnsfdoa8x1e1/player

I made this one a while back and figured i would share. Yes, its longer than 10 seconds, let people enjoy things.

https://reddit.com/link/1gv7ih6/video/zkq2p3kr7x1e1/player

Has anyone got a preroll showing Trump in an orange prisoners jumpsuit and/or showing all his felonies/convictions or something?

Update:

I have now created a Docker image to use this script without the need for Python or ffmpeg knowledge. Details for grabbing and using the Docker image has now been added to the readme page in the GitHub repo (See link below).

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About a month ago I created a Python script to automate the process of creating a video pre-roll that shows movies that are coming soon to my Plex server (though there's no reason this can't work for an other server software that utilized pre-rolls). It basically uses the iCal link from Radarr and parses the data into a text file that then overlays the text onto a video using ffmpeg.

This isn't a fully fledged package with an installer or distributed as a Docker image. It is basically just a Python script along with a couple of files needed to use as-is.

The only tools and knowledge you will need are:

1. You must be using Radarr.
2. You should have some sort of working knowledge of Python scripts and how to run them.
3. You should also have a working knowledge of installing Python libraries (from a package manager such as pip) as this script utilizes the "icalendar" library.
4. Knowledge on how to create your own video template to overlay the text into. I give an example in the readme, but it is watermarked, so it can't be distributed.
5. The knowledge on how to schedule tasks in your OS, so that the script can be automated to run once a day.

Please note: The version of ffmpeg included in this repo is a version that has been compiled (for Linux) with the necessary libraries to work with adding overlays to video files. Other versions may not work for you. This unfortunately means that if you want to run this script in Windows (or any other non-Linux OS) you will need to find (or compile) a version of ffmpeg that supports overlays yourself.

Here is the repo: https://github.com/chadwpalm/coming-soon

Enjoy!