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In my first test, the system worked the way I initially intended: it grouped trivia by decade, rating, and genre, and selected content based on those matches. That part was fine and worked as expected for testing. However, once I started adding more detailed movie-specific trivia, it quickly became clear that this approach was pretty boring in practice. The system always chose the “best” match first, and because many movies have large trivia packs, it would end up playing all the trivia for a single movie before moving on to the next best match, and then the next, and so on. To fix that, I changed the behavior. In the current version, the system plays a slide from the best-matching folder, then skips that folder for a random number of slides (3–6). It then does the same with the second-best folder, and continues down the list. This creates the feel of randomness, while still giving higher priority to more relevant content. I had forgotten that I made this change until I went back and reviewed the code, which is why the behavior didn’t line up with how I described it, and wasn't what you were expecting.

Currently working out a series of videos for theater intros. Using Unreal Engine. Slow going but I hope to make one for every genre. At least I have one. I customized the Regal Cinemas 1990's roller coaster to my theater. Used some AI to change some wording in the narration and Davinci resolve to edit the text on the marque scroller. Gruelling work as unreal Engine is hard to learn. Nothing is straight forward. Everything is a task. But I hope in the end it looks great. Doing an old West town for westerns. A spooky gothic castle on a hill for horror. I plan to do a parody or homage to the Disney Castle for family movies. But I really like watching the playlists on YouTube that feature simple CGI that reminds me of bowling alley animations. That is probably more easily done now with Unreal. I will probably sparingly use AI but for home theater intros it seems tempting. But AI programs seem expensive. Anyone else have customized intros?

After testing more i found out that only one works at a time if it has no rating the year will work if no ratings or year the genre will work 🤔

Ok after heavy testing, rating slides work flawlessly every time , But genre and year never do just random slides even tho the log shows them scoreing correctly.

Subjective, yes. But here's a few "scary movies": The Conjuring 1 and 2 The Ring Insidious Presence The Exorcist Poltergeist

All my movies with Atmos or DTS:X audio have "atmos" and "dtsx" in the filename respectively. PSE has always been able to pick the correct audio bumper accordingly. That's the easiest way to do it currently.

I setup folders by genre so basically horror themed trailers, action themed, superhero themed, etc. Then I just create sequences based off genre. At some point I hope we can add nfo files to local trailers for metadata such as genres, aspect ratio and others. That would help lower the amount of sequences I have to make.

ffmpeg had the functionality, but Kodi didn't update to a version with it. I don't think it was a simple replace to update it, so it took them a while. I wouldn't change the names of your movies. I'm not going to remove the functionality for the file names, so having them named that way will guarantee that they load the appropriate bumper. There's no need for you to risk kodi losing any info for your movies by changing the name. I don't think Auro 3d will be included, just Atmos and DTS:X. I've been slowly working on new stuff for PreShow, and hope to make some huge improvements this year.

Jungle with Daniel Radcliff Maybe wouldnt say it is scary but very disturbing

I thought that ffmpeg used to recognize Atmos tracks one or two years ago. However, I allready wondered why my atmos bumbers are not played anymore. (Maybe I also had a few files with an atmos flag in the name). I would love it to automatically detect atmos, auro3d and dtsx tracks. Is there any news about when Kodi 22 will release? Otherwise it would be a pain to rename all my movies and I am scared that Kodi would detect them as a new file, since it is another filename than before. So I am not sure if I will update the names, but the auto-detection for audio bumpers is one of the biggest reasons why I started using PSE! (Great to hear that you are still working on PSE btw :) )

It looks like Kodi 22 recognizes Atmos and DTS:X. I'll see what I can update when it is official.

Just had a thought though. Ffmpeg may not be good at finding Atmos. Could MediaInfo be packaged in preshow and used to scan the feature to then determine which audio format it is in?

So this sounds more like an issue with Kodi. I suppose the important thing is if you decided to add a tool to search for a list of movies that may be in Atmos, the problem would be in if the user re-encoded with handbrake and changed or compressed the audio tracks(s). I suppose it would be nice if the movies show the appropriate audio bumper, but how would it know how to tell the difference? It seems just using the truehd folder is a surefire way, but I would be glad to make changes (except I don't know if I want to change the filenames manually)

Atmos is a subset of TrueHD. When FFMPEG analyzes the audio, it can only report TrueHD. There are 3 audio formats that can't be recognized. They are Dolby Atmos, DTS-X & Auro-3D. Right now, if you want PreShow to recognize them, you need to add atmos, dtsx, or auro3d to the filename to get them to display properly.

The Haunting (1963) It probably isn't scary for everyone. Scary is subjective as you say. But the Haunting truly sets the mood, practically invented the jump scare, and the director was brilliant at creative use of shots. No blood, no monsters. Because it is the imagination that builds the scariest of all monsters. Fight me

I have noticed that Atmos is never listed in my system. TrueHD is, and according to Google, truehd is atmos. So I simply copied all my atmos bumpers to the Dolby TrueHD folder. If I am mistaken on audio formats, please correct me.

Thank you! This app has made movies so much better!

The folder for local trailer files does not scan nfo files. The genre match is only for online or kodi trailers. It's been a while since I've done anything with it, but I think it is set up to use genres for local trailers that are set with tinyMediaManager. It seemed at the time that people that used static local trailers all used that to integrate their files in kodi and it was a better solution that having them set it up again in PreShow. I think that most people that use the PreShow trailers folder have some other method for maintaining their files and don't leave them in there forever. The beta versions of PreShow have more dynamic content options, and while there isn't currently an option for the trailers folder, there could be a simple workaround for it. The current, and complicated, way to do it entirely inside of PreShow would be to set up folders for the ratings and then set multiple sequences with conditions for the ratings. Let me know if that makes sense and if I can do anything to explain further or help you out with your current configuration.

Good morning, Just wanting to make sure I understand how local trailers work. i would prefer to only have trailers for movies in my library. i have them in the Trailers folder and i have settings set only to Content and scrape only preshow trailer folder. But it will seem to play random movie trailers from the folder even though i have genre match turned on. I have created NFOs for all the movie trailers in the folder. For example, Frozen would bring up a trailer for True Grit (2010). sort of was hoping for another kid friendly trailer more akin to Frozen. Like maybe Moana or something. i think i might create sub folders as a last resort, but i was just wanting to make sure i understood how it pulls and the best way it can pull appropriate movie trailers. Thank you!

Hi @amilino , You need to add files to those folders, depending on what you want to have in your PreShow. Here are some links to files that can be downloaded from here: https://preshowexperience.com/files/category/12-preshow-bumper-sets/ https://preshowexperience.com/files/category/4-countdown/ https://preshowexperience.com/files/category/14-courtesy-bumpers/ https://preshowexperience.com/files/category/5-audio-format/ https://preshowexperience.com/files/category/6-trivia-facts/ PreShow can be configured a lot of different ways. If you envision a specific things, let me know what you want and I'll help walk you through setting it up. If you aren't sure what to do and are just testing it out, my suggestion is to start with a theater intro bumper, a trailer and a courtesy bumper. Make sure you rescan your content after adding files to the folder. You can test out your sequence inside of PreShow and then you can play it before your movie by using the context menu, or some skins have ah PreShow or Cinema button. Let me know if you have any questions after you get some content added to your folders and I'll be happy to help you out.

Hi there, just a simple question as I am not sure how this addon works. I configured a content folder and I can only see a folder structure without any files downloaded. Is there something missing or? I am using the latest omega Kodi version.

Let me know if you use audio format bumpers? And if so, do you rename your movies with Atmos to enable the Atmos bumpers?

I have a friend that wants to watch the "scariest movie." I think scary is very subjective, so I figured I'd ask it here. What do you think is the scariest movie?

I don't know anything at all about WLED and have no way to test it, but looking at the api I think the following may work. "http://IP LED/win&A=0&TT=30000"

Hi, I've looked at it. Thanks for that. I found another solution using WLED. However, I can't get the light to dim slowly and turn off after 30 seconds. Here's the command, in case you don't already know it. "http://IP LED/win&T=0" This turns the light off completely. If you then replace the 0 with 1, it turns back on. I speak German. Hope that's understandable. I got it working. Here's an example with 30-second dimming and a brightness of 50% via WLED at "http://IP WLED/win&A=50&TT=30000" and then off at "http://IP WLED/win&A=0&TT=30000"