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Intro PSA about shutting up old outdated commerical old cartoon - I have Popeye, Gumby, Betty Boop, Tennessee Tuxedo. old outdated refreshment ad trivia with the matching theme music for the movie. random movie facts movie trailer rating bumper audio bumper movie For some reason my friends find it to be obnoxiously long, I kinda see their point now so I'm gonna chop it down. And with PSE having conditions, I'm going to spend a silly amount of time making sequences for movies I have trivia for and just whatever I can do with it that HTE & CE couldn't. And I don't remember how I had it configured, but I'm sure when HTE came out 15 years ago my original sequence was even longer and more obnoxious lol.

Overwrite. Sometimes those may be higher resolution versions of older logos. For example, this latest update includes new Atlas Film, Lucas Arts, Focus Features and Mandalay Pictures logos.

I've been using PSE since it was uhhhh, Home Theater Experience, back before Kodi was Kodi. I used Cinema Experience, which I'm pretty sure there was 1 more after before PSE started. I used to go back and forth with the original author, and a few times with the CE author with 1 suggestion. The ability to select trivia for specific movies, so I could set up my trivia to tie in with the movies. Both said it was a good idea, and would consider it. Nothing ever came from it, so I would copy just the trivia for the movie I wanted into the trivia folder before I started XBMC. I stopped using Kodi for a chunk and came back to see you can now add conditions to your sequences. While I haven't tried it yet, this looks exactly like what I was suggesting both other authors should add. Well it looks like it can do a whole lot more actually. This is my favorite XBMC Addon, I remember how sad I was every time it died and I was never sure if it would even come back. This new version is awesome and the added conditional elements are perfect. To me that was about all that HTE was missing, and 15 years later to finally see it is crazy. I just want to thank Matt for the hard work and not letting CE, or whatever it was last called died. I have appreciated every programmer that picked up working on this when the last author let it die. And Kudos for the UI, I loved HTE but the UI was clunky and it was overly complicated to make sequences. Hopefully I'll be able to use PSE forever, I remember staying on an old buggy version of XBMC just because HTE was dead and wouldn't work with the newer versions lol. That's how much the plugin meant to me.

do you overwrite existing with each release? Or just the new filenames are new?

Even tho I can't sing and I never do, I like CULRCyrics, and Movie Quiz was great but it looks like it's not supported anymore. I think it was called movie quiz, was a trivia game that kept track of your score. And I always install Artist Slideshow to have artwork.

0.3.2.1 has been added to the site, which hopefully fixes this issue.

I'll look at it when I get time, after the current dev round is completed. From my perspective, if you are repeating content then you are playing something in the background and it is ok if the music stops and potentially repeats the same music. I would just put some sort of other element in the loop with it so that there more natural flow to it. For example, play the slideshow and then a random short video and then come back to the slideshow. If you want to make this work now the way you described, make copies of your slideshow images and then use bulk rename utility to renumber them. You can figure out how long you want it to be and just add enough files to process that amount of time. I use that utility a lot and really like it.

Hmmm... tried a loop command in the sequence, but that doesn't satisfy this request as the music stops and restarts, potentially playing the same songs again (we have plenty of music in the library.) Maybe I'm missing another method. Thank you.

You should be able to combine it with the command module to make it loop. Let me know if you need help setting that up.

We frequently set up a collection of 10 to 20 slides as a pre-show before our programming for 30 or so minutes using the Slideshow module. However, we encounter the slideshow limitation: once all the slides have been displayed once, the slideshow ends, regardless of the total duration set. To achieve our desired length, we duplicate and manually number the slides, which is quite cumbersome when looking to keep the same rotation order over and over. Would it be possible to add a “loop” option to this module? This would allow the slides to restart either in alphabetical order or in a continuous random order, while keeping the background music uninterrupted. We believe this feature would also be beneficial for the Trivia module when the trivia set has been shown in its entirety. Thanks for considering this request! Best, Spires

Thanks, Matt, that's nice of you to test it out. My Kodi has no issues with reading media from the same folders that fail here.

Glad you got it to work.

Ahhhh, you're so great! Thank you, Matt - it's working so brilliant! (Just used your DialogBusy.xml from your Confluence...) Robert

I’m getting the exact same problem 😩

This setup sounds like a lot of fun. The upcoming versions of PreShow are basically a way to do this exact thing with only 1 sequence. What are you doing to show trailers related to the year of your movie?

To suppress the busy dialog when PreShow Experience is running, add the following to the DialogBusy.xml file: <visible>IsEmpty(Window(Home).Property(script.preshowexperience.running))</visible>If it has a reference to CV in the DialogBusy.xml, change this <visible>String.IsEmpty(Window(Home).Property(script.cinemavision.running))</visible>to this <visible>String.IsEmpty(Window(Home).Property(script.preshowexperience.running))</visible>

This is a Kodi/Shield issue and not directly related to PreShow, so there's nothing I can do within PreShow to fix this. I have my shield set to use a network drive, but will try adding an external drive to it and will report back if I can get it to work.

Hi, first time user. A problem with initial setup. When selecting content path I get the error "Make sure the selected folder is writable and that the new folder name is valid". I'm on the latest Nvidia Shield TV Pro. External SSD and the path is within a root folder named NVIDIA_SHIELD (as can be required for some scenarios on the Shield). Tried other folders on the SSD without luck. The SSD works fine with other apps like VLC and Plex. Tried downgrading to 0.3.0. Same result. Any suggestion?

@Matt: Hi, Matt! There is a modified Confluence-Skin for Kodi 20... can you tell or show me, where you've changed it for turning off the "Busy"-indicator? Background: I'm using Xonfluence because of its possibilities to change the menues. And I would like to modify it, too (as maybe you would like to modify it quickly ;-) ?) -- Thank you so much! -- Robert

I have made a lot of playlist based on years since 1960 to 2025. Playlist are automaticaly selected depending on the date of the movie you launch. This allow me to have preshow experience related to the year that the movie has been released. So you have trailers related to the date of the movie, and also some bumper at the same period. This allow to put the movie in his original context and it looks great to me. Preshow experience is really easily customisable, the only limit is your imagination ! I have mixed also commercials spots related to time period (1980's, 1990's, etc) and have added cartoons in the same folder. You have the surprise of having a cartoon launched or just a commercial.

OK, that's great, thanks. I did try turning off IMDB trailer source but it still failed. Keep up the good work :)

I've fixed that bug in the next version, which should be coming out in a couple days. Also, that bug only related to IMDB trailers. Matt Huisman's Youtube for Trailers addon only affects the YT and Kodi trailers.

Hi. I can't seem to get the latest version to work. I have installed the Matt Huisman Youtube for Trailers addon but I get the following error in the Kodi log: Seems a 'Quality' attribute is missing?? Any help much appreciated. Thanks

It's been awhile since I've used ratings. I believe the rating was a video, but thinking about it perhaps it was an image that faded in then out? 🤔

Do you use images or videos for your ratings?