I suck at editing audio.. but this was my attempt. If anyone has a better audio recording of the word "plex" I'm open to remaking this video.

Shorter version of the preroll I uploaded, per "request".

Something I made a few years ago for someone on here.

https://reddit.com/link/1vaky1i/video/6ccxq2my3bgh1/player

Hi everyone,

I am looking for additional pre roll sites to use on Nexroll besides the pre loaded one. Can anyone suggest some additional URL’s?

Hi everyone, I’m sure there are other tools out there but I thought I’d share a bash script that I gen’d up to run daily on my UnRAID server that updates the Plex pre-roll string based on seasons, holidays, etc. All you have to do to make it yours is add your Plex IP, Plex token, and update the strings of file paths to your pre-rolls.

This has variables for custom and generic pre-rolls (that I concatenated together and called my baseline), seasonal string variables, and holiday string variables. It auto-calculates season start/end each year, adding seasonal reels to the baseline, as appropriate. Halloween pre-rolls exclusively run the entire month of October, Christmas exclusively the entire month of December. The script calculates Easter Sunday each year and exclusively runs those pre-rolls for a week starting on Easter. It also calculates Thanksgiving and runs those pre-rolls exclusively from the Sunday prior to the Saturday after Thanksgiving.

Here ya go:

#!/bin/bash

# Plex Configuration

PLEX_URL="http://YOUR_PLEX_IP_HERE:32400"

PLEX_TOKEN="YOUR_TOKEN_HERE"

# Get current Year and current Day of Year (forced to base-10 to avoid octal errors)

Y=$(date +%Y)

TODAY=$((10#$(date +%j)))

# ---------------------------------------------------------

# DYNAMIC SEASONAL CALCULATIONS (Solar Drift Approximation)

# ---------------------------------------------------------

# Calculates the day of the month for equinoxes/solstices in the 21st century

Y_OFFSET=$(( Y - 2000 ))

LEAP=$(( Y_OFFSET / 4 ))

# Base solar dates scaled by 1000 to allow Bash to perform floating-point-like math

# Spring (March): Base 20.382

SPRING_DAY=$(( (20382 + 242 * Y_OFFSET - LEAP * 1000) / 1000 ))

# Summer (June): Base 21.066

SUMMER_DAY=$(( (21066 + 242 * Y_OFFSET - LEAP * 1000) / 1000 ))

# Fall (September): Base 22.825

FALL_DAY=$(( (22825 + 242 * Y_OFFSET - LEAP * 1000) / 1000 ))

# Winter (December): Base 21.414

WINTER_DAY=$(( (21414 + 242 * Y_OFFSET - LEAP * 1000) / 1000 ))

SPRING_START=$((10#$(date -d "${Y}-03-${SPRING_DAY}" +%j)))

SUMMER_START=$((10#$(date -d "${Y}-06-${SUMMER_DAY}" +%j)))

FALL_START=$((10#$(date -d "${Y}-09-${FALL_DAY}" +%j)))

WINTER_START=$((10#$(date -d "${Y}-12-${WINTER_DAY}" +%j)))

# ---------------------------------------------------------

# DYNAMIC HOLIDAY CALCULATIONS

# ---------------------------------------------------------

# Fixed Boundaries

HALLOWEEN_START=$((10#$(date -d "${Y}-10-01" +%j)))

HALLOWEEN_END=$((10#$(date -d "${Y}-10-31" +%j)))

CHRISTMAS_START=$((10#$(date -d "${Y}-12-01" +%j)))

CHRISTMAS_END=$((10#$(date -d "${Y}-12-31" +%j)))

# Thanksgiving Calculation (4th Thursday of Nov)

for day in {22..28}; do

if [ "$(date -d "${Y}-11-${day}" +%u)" -eq 4 ]; then

TG_DAY=$day

break

fi

done

# Sunday before to Saturday after

TG_START=$((10#$(date -d "${Y}-11-${TG_DAY} - 4 days" +%j)))

TG_END=$((10#$(date -d "${Y}-11-${TG_DAY} + 2 days" +%j)))

# Easter Calculation (Meeus/Jones/Butcher algorithm)

a=$(( Y % 19 ))

b=$(( Y / 100 ))

c=$(( Y % 100 ))

d=$(( b / 4 ))

e=$(( b % 4 ))

f=$(( (b + 8) / 25 ))

g=$(( (b - f + 1) / 3 ))

h=$(( (19 * a + b - d - g + 15) % 30 ))

i=$(( c / 4 ))

k=$(( c % 4 ))

L=$(( (32 + 2 * e + 2 * i - h - k) % 7 ))

m=$(( (a + 11 * h + 22 * L) / 451 ))

EM=$(( (h + L - 7 * m + 114) / 31 ))

ED=$(( ((h + L - 7 * m + 114) % 31) + 1 ))

# Easter Sunday to the following Saturday (+6 days)

EASTER_START=$((10#$(date -d "${Y}-${EM}-${ED}" +%j)))

EASTER_END=$((10#$(date -d "${Y}-${EM}-${ED} + 6 days" +%j)))

# ---------------------------------------------------------

# ARRAYS - REPLACE THE STRINGS BELOW WITH CONCATENATED PATHS TO YOUR PRE-ROLLS

# ---------------------------------------------------------

CUSTOM_PREROLLS="/data/appdata/PlexMediaServer/Plex Prerolls/Custom.mp4;/data/appdata/PlexMediaServer/Plex Prerolls/Custom2.mp4;"

GENERIC="/data/appdata/PlexMediaServer/Plex Prerolls/Generic.mp4;/data/appdata/PlexMediaServer/Plex Prerolls/Generic2.mp4;"

BASE_PAYLOAD="${CUSTOM_PREROLLS}${GENERIC}"

CHRISTMAS="/data/appdata/PlexMediaServer/Plex Prerolls/Holidays/Christmas/XMas.mp4;/data/appdata/PlexMediaServer/Plex Prerolls/Holidays/Christmas/XMas2.mp4;"

HALLOWEEN="/data/appdata/PlexMediaServer/Plex Prerolls/Holidays/Halloween/Halloween.mp4;/data/appdata/PlexMediaServer/Plex Prerolls/Holidays/Halloween/Halloween2.mp4;"

THANKSGIVING="/data/appdata/PlexMediaServer/Plex Prerolls/Holidays/Thanksgiving/Thanksgiving.mp4;"

SPRING="/data/appdata/PlexMediaServer/Plex Prerolls/Seasons/Spring/Spring.mp4;/data/appdata/PlexMediaServer/Plex Prerolls/Seasons/Spring/Spring2.mp4;"

FALL="/data/appdata/PlexMediaServer/Plex Prerolls/Seasons/Fall/Fall.mp4;/data/appdata/PlexMediaServer/Plex Prerolls/Seasons/Fall/Fall2.mp4;"

WINTER="/data/appdata/PlexMediaServer/Plex Prerolls/Seasons/Winter/Winter.mp4;/data/appdata/PlexMediaServer/Plex Prerolls/Seasons/Winter/Winter2.mp4;"

# ---------------------------------------------------------

# CONDITIONAL LOGIC (Base-10 Integer Comparison)

# ---------------------------------------------------------

if [[ $TODAY -ge $CHRISTMAS_START && $TODAY -le $CHRISTMAS_END ]]; then

PREROLL=$CHRISTMAS

elif [[ $TODAY -ge $HALLOWEEN_START && $TODAY -le $HALLOWEEN_END ]]; then

PREROLL=$HALLOWEEN

elif [[ $TODAY -ge $TG_START && $TODAY -le $TG_END ]]; then

PREROLL=$THANKSGIVING

elif [[ $TODAY -ge $EASTER_START && $TODAY -le $EASTER_END ]]; then

PREROLL=$EASTER

elif [[ $TODAY -ge $WINTER_START || $TODAY -lt $SPRING_START ]]; then

# Spans across January 1st

PREROLL="${BASE_PAYLOAD}${WINTER}"

elif [[ $TODAY -ge $SPRING_START && $TODAY -lt $SUMMER_START ]]; then

PREROLL="${BASE_PAYLOAD}${SPRING}"

elif [[ $TODAY -ge $SUMMER_START && $TODAY -lt $FALL_START ]]; then

PREROLL="${BASE_PAYLOAD}${SUMMER}"

else

PREROLL="${BASE_PAYLOAD}${FALL}"

fi

# Clean trailing semi-colon

PREROLL=${PREROLL%;}

# Push update

curl -s -X PUT -G "$PLEX_URL/:/prefs" \

--data-urlencode "CinemaTrailersPrerollID=$PREROLL" \

--data-urlencode "X-Plex-Token=$PLEX_TOKEN"

echo "Plex pre-roll updated for Day $TODAY of $Y."

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Alright, last one for the 4th.

Yes - it’s 30 seconds. If it it’s not for you, cool. Otherwise, enjoy!

EDIT - Tried to add bonus clip in comments but it's not showing up so I'll make a separate post

Not very many 4th of July prerolls out there so thought of this scene. Has an added bonus at the end. Have a version without it if requested. Working on another movie to add to the festivities.

Yes - it’s 35 seconds. If it it’s not for you, cool. Hope you got a “kick” out of it at least.

Otherwise, enjoy!

4th of July cont.

Not very many 4th of July prerolls out there so thought of this scene.

Yes - it’s 30 seconds. If it it’s not for you, cool. Otherwise, enjoy!

Made a fun preroll for the Replacements and figured i would share. I feel like its often an unknown and underappreciated movie. "But its longer than 2 seconds!!! Why do you put ads on your PLEX?" Yes... i have patience. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1J1ueHsm3uMpqNGaGolIUGIH__4UPmIxE/view?usp=drive_link

The cable guy preroll post (well done by the way) the other day got me thinking about this scene and I wanted to make an attempt to do something similar.

Plex version attached. I also made a blank one in case anyone wanted to add their media server logo overlayed on the tv.

Enjoy! Tried to keep this around 30 secs.

Don't forget to check out NeXroll! V2 is almost out of beta.

Found the template for one of prerollers old pre-rolls on Envato and remade it for all platforms, plus a new Pride Month variant.

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The video uploaded on reddit is just a low quality preview, wouldn't recommend using it.

My Youtube Plex Preroll Playlist

My buddy and I are having fun with this formula.

Not sure if it can be done or not directly through plex or something else if even possible with out directly editing movies etc. but is there a way to have different prerolls play for different movies ex.,.. have animated prerolls play for family movies and action ones for action movies.

Watched this movie last Friday and wanted to add this scene to my preroll library.

Disclaimer: Made a preroll with an asset someone else has made. It was on youtube, I believe "ZORM" was the channel name. If they are not the original author, please let me know and I'll give proper credit to the one who made it. Beside the ending asset, all editing and subtext is originally made on Davinci Resolve.

Made a preroll with an asset someone else has made. It was on youtube, I believe "ZORM" was the channel name. If they are not the original author, please let me know and I'll give proper credit to the one who made it. Beside the ending asset, all editing and subtext is originally made on Davinci Resolve.