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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 isn't an Atmos flag to recognize. 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. There are lists of movies and Blu-rays with Dolby Atmos that I could code PreShow to look for. There's no guarantee that your version of the movie includes it, but it is an indication that the movie should have it. The goal of the post is really to see if it is being used and if there's interest to have this list to force Atmos to be played in the movies that were created with it without the need to change the file name.

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"

The trailers will work on the latest versions of PreShow without an update. Trailers used to require updates every time they broke, so I added a website middleware to do the scraping portion of it and PreShow now just looks at that link. That being said, PreShow doesn't delete all your current trailer records and install the new ones. You can reset your content database and scan your content to make sure that you are getting the latest content, if you want to see the new trailers immediately. Also, the trailers can only be scraped a max of 1 time a day.

That's great, nice work. When you say you fixed it, does that mean there's an update to the addon which needs to be downloaded?

I just fixed the IMDB trailers yesterday, so you should be able to use it. It included yet to be released movies up to 2 months prior to the day. The current TMDB trailer scraper api used by PreShow includes some movies that have already been released. I don't know if I'd recommend using both. Most people seem to prefer 1 or the other. TMDB used youtube. It has more reliable trailers, but you have to deal with it being youtube. I'm going to be overhauling the trailer system in PreShow to hopefully make it where you are just picking what format of trailers that you want to use and the content is more consistent regardless of which format you use.

It was down yesterday but up again this morning. I've been test running the Kodi v22 nightly builds on Windows and it's been working well with PSE so far.

IMDB & TMDB, is it worth disabling IMDB then? How new should the trailer be for the scrapers to use them normally?

Here's a page on using Govee lights in Home Assistant: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/govee_light_local/ And here's a page about LAN API control: https://app-h5.govee.com/user-manual/wlan-guide

Thank you for the feedback. It would be great if Govee could work with PSE and Home Assistant, as I also have Govee installed in my home theater. My goal is for all the lighting to turn off when the movie starts and back on when it ends.

Yes, I think. They both work with Home Assistant, and PreShow can send commands to Home Assistant. That being said, I've only set up HA for some testing and don't think I still have it set up. I have some Nanoleaf lights, but they aren't in my theater, and I don't own any Govee lights. In other words, I don't really have much info that I can share on how to actually set them up with PreShow. I'm going to be working on the guides later this year and may be able to offer more insight then.

We don't do this very often, but, sometimes, life happens, and it's only fair to forewarn you. We've been notified by one of our hosting providers of scheduled maintenance that will take our mirror servers off air for a while. During this window, you will not have access to downloads of anything we host - so, basically any new downloads of the Kodi application and add-ons. Kodi itself will remain available where it's hosted in a third-party repository (e.g. an app store). The window for this maintenance is: Monday, January 12 2026, between 10AM and 6PM PST - so 18:00 12 January to 06:00 13 January UTC. We'll obviously bring everything back on line as soon as we can, but assume no access within these hours. If you have to try installing anything, be aware that it will error and none of the admins will be able to check what's happening either. Please, just ignore any errors on launch for now, and wait until the mirrors all come back and synchronise. View the full article

Hi, is it possible to create an action with Govee or Nanoleaf? It works perfectly with Philips Hue LEDs. Or could it be done via Home Assistant?

Best 10 movies of 2025 for me that I've seen are as follows (in no particular order): Frankenstein Predator Badlands F1 Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning Wake Me Up Dead Man Nuremberg The Fantastic Four: First Steps Warfare Predator: Killer of Killers The Gorge Biggest 5 disappointments for me in 2025: Superman Captain America: Brave New World Thunderbolts Tron: Ares Now You See Me: Now You Don't