Movie Poster App -modded-

Modified Movie Poster App

This is a modified version of the movie poster app from Great Dane Cinema. Modified to work with Preshow experience to show the preshow logos during your sequence.

This is temporary solution until the Great Dane Cinema Can be requested to make the necessary changes to the program ..

*Notes*

Youtube dl files have been updated as of 1-11-25 for Preview Trailers to work

Some other modifications Icons Ect. for my preferences were added for my build and are not Part of the original authors program

App Instalation

Downloaded the 7zip file, simply extract the contents using 7-Zip to a location of your choice and run the MoviePoster.exe file to launch the program.

Suggestions:

create desktop shortcuts or start menu shortcut for the main program Exe , You movie poster apps Temp Cache , And your Movie Posters Storage folder for ease of access..

Temp Cache Location Example C:\Users\<your pc name>\AppData\Local\MoviePoster

Movie posters default Storage location Example C:\Users\<your pc name>\Documents\MoviePoster

About Movie Poster App

MoviePoster digital poster display software is what your home theater has been missing! MoviePoster is designed to run on a Windows PC connected to a large LCD display in portrait format. The software automatically downloads and displays digital movie posters for display in your custom home theater. Gone are the days of changing out a paper poster. MoviePoster will automatically cycle through posters for upcoming movies, or you can even define your own custom list. Now you can quickly and easily change your poster display in seconds. Along with the poster itself, MoviePoster will display metadata and even thr trailer for the movie!

Great Dane Cinema

https://movieposterapp.com

File Information

Submitter NightWatcherTheater

Submitted 01/11/2025

Category Other Files

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If the MoviePosterApp is already installed, what files(s) from this one should I copy and overwrite specifically in my current installation?

12 minutes ago, MidnightWatcher said:

If the MoviePosterApp is already installed, what files(s) from this one should I copy and overwrite specifically in my current installation?

Its been a hot min since i worked on it Ill get you a list .. i assuming you got the updated youtube dll already?

I believe so, but isn't it only required to view trailers?

12 hours ago, MidnightWatcher said:

I believe so, but isn't it only required to view trailers?

Yes just the trailers , it has a new update it needs to work but if your not using it dont worry about that one ..

You need to copy over the XBMCmediaInterface folder

Its in Great Dane Cinema/MoviePoster/Plugins/

Your settings should be fine since they are saved in your temporary cache

Its been almost a year since i changed everything im pretty sure there were 4 dll files that i had changed from CinemaVision to Preshow im double checking now but i think everything was in the plugin folder .

I will use Dreamweaver to search to see if there's any more files that need transfered over

Just a side note i didn't change the cs files where it calls for the filename “moviecinemavision” so if you want to change the artwork you will have to use that filename .. I figured the creator would be updating it anyway so why change it , all i just changed the dll files that would see CinemaVision playing to Preshow so it would be functional till hopefully it gets updated

Edited January 18Jan 18 by NightWatcherTheater

Got it working, though in my Plugins folder it was KodiMediaInterface and not XBMCmediaInterface. I noticed the issue after realizing I suddenly had two Kodi tabs in the Settings Plugin menu.

Quick question in case you know the answer. When the MoviePosterApp first loads up the original “Coming Soon” banner appears at the top of the screen briefly (and five white stars at the bottom right). I've created my own theme and am using custom banners but for the life of me I can't figure out where that original “Coming Soon” banner and the five stars are being pulled from. I’d like to get rid of it if possible. Any ideas?

On 1/19/2025 at 9:57 PM, MidnightWatcher said:

Got it working, though in my Plugins folder it was KodiMediaInterface and not XBMCmediaInterface. I noticed the issue after realizing I suddenly had two Kodi tabs in the Settings Plugin menu.

Quick question in case you know the answer. When the MoviePosterApp first loads up the original “Coming Soon” banner appears at the top of the screen briefly (and five white stars at the bottom right). I've created my own theme and am using custom banners but for the life of me I can't figure out where that original “Coming Soon” banner and the five stars are being pulled from. I’d like to get rid of it if possible. Any ideas?

Im looking into it like i said its been awhile . I thought it loaded the default theme when it first loads ( the one in the program folder not your themes in your documents folder ) that just how the program starts on defaults then loads custom thems ect. and i do remember you have to delete the temporary cache images you basically looking at a webpage and images are stored for fast loading but can seem to find were its pulling the coming soon from im going to have to look at the code and get back to you ..

Edited January 21Jan 21 by NightWatcherTheater

Here’s how it looks after bit of tweaking. I’d like to be able to either hide or center the bottom audio / AR / resolution icons to make it looks more symmetrical but haven’t found a way to do that yet. Custom posters (eg. RoboCop) are missing all bottom icons entirely. Looks more complete when everything is populated (eg. Doctor Strange). Unfortunately development on the MoviePosterApp seems to have halted for over a year and not sure if any updates will be coming any time soon.

37 minutes ago, MidnightWatcher said:

Here’s how it looks after bit of tweaking. I’d like to be able to either hide or center the bottom audio / AR / resolution icons to make it looks more symmetrical but haven’t found a way to do that yet. Custom posters (eg. RoboCop) are missing all bottom icons entirely. Looks more complete when everything is populated (eg. Doctor Strange). Unfortunately development on the MoviePosterApp seems to have halted for over a year and not sure if any updates will be coming any time soon.

Just a note they don't auto populate any of the audio, aspect until you watch that movie .. If i can explain it there's not default aspect or audio stream for say Indiana Jones, it be 5.1 dolby 7.1 atmos ect. Same for aspectratio but when you watch that movie threw watching it threw your media player while the poster is running it will populate that info from the movie in your library. If its populating info from online its going to use the defaults in the menus . If your using the custom posters menu instead of adding a custom poster threw the poster cache you would have to add an info file . The custom poster section is more for art files or videos game posters . If you want say a custom RoboCop poster add a poster from scratch on the poster cache section. And if you want some of the work done for you manually add from web and just overwrite the poster . That way all the rating and info is done for you

On 1/23/2025 at 5:32 PM, NightWatcherTheater said:

The custom poster section is more for art files or videos game posters .

Instead of custom posters I've now decided to compile a folder with a selection of 1080×1920 movie-themed wallpapers to fill the screen. Only thing I had to tweak further was adding an outline to the banner text so that it was clearly legible for every screen. I think I like it.

Edit: 1080×1920 wallpaper art can be found here: https://hdqwalls.com/1080x1920/movies-wallpapers/page/1

Hi, I have been using MoviePoster for a few years now and its awesome to see that there are others that are helping to keep it updated. You can hide the bottom audio / AR / resolution icons by copying the none.png from MoviePoster\Images\Themes\Default\Banners to MoviePoster\Images\Themes\Default\Logos\Resolution , MoviePoster\Images\Themes\Default\Logos\Audio and MoviePoster\Images\Themes\Default\Logos\AspectRatio. For me it did not work in AspectRatio unless I renamed it, I renamed it to 1.png. Once you have copied the files go to Settings and then Appearance, click on Set for Default Audio Flag, choose the none.png, same for Default Resolution Flag and for Default Aspect Flag choose 1.png. After you click on Save movieposter will restart and you should no longer see those icons.

Are the colored icons and logos included in this download?

6 minutes ago, DREY said:

Are the colored icons and logos included in this download?

No, I made some of those myself. It's easy to find transparent png logos online and resize them for the MoviePosterApp using something like Paint.net or Gimp.

Oh nice. I wanted to do something like that, it really enhances the look.

5 hours ago, DREY said:

Oh nice. I wanted to do something like that, it really enhances the look.

See attachment for what I've done so far.

Logos v1.4.zip

Edited January 31Jan 31 by MidnightWatcher
Updated more studio logos again and added an alternate 4K resolution logo.

Updated more logos this morning, see Logos v1.4.zip above for the latest.

Hello, I used the original version and it worked great for me. Furthermore, the system froze and now, even when I restart the program and even when I restart the computer, it still shows the film title with the start and end time of the film when it crashed. Is there a way to reset the whole thing? I try to reinstall the original Programm but the same result. Need Help. Thanks

I had this happen to me once. Turns out my Kodi HTPC was turned off and it was trying to connect. Make sure Kodi is on and that it can connect to it.

Also, if you overwrote your current install with this I wonder if the configuration file in the kodi / xbmc plugins directory is pointing to the wrong IP address? Check that also and update to your IP address if necessary.

On 1/30/2025 at 11:30 AM, MidnightWatcher said:

Updated more logos this morning, see Logos v1.4.zip above for the latest.

FYI - I've made a ton more logos and have now even began making them in higher resolution to maximize the quality on 4K screens. When I see any movie poster missing the studio logo I'll make a note, review the poster NFO to get the studio name and keep making more. The "official" release can be found here.

My only issue is sometimes the studio name has a slash "/" in it on the NFO file and I'm not sure how to accommodate the logo filename in order to pull up and display the logo for that poster. Out of the hundreds I've looked at I've found 5 of these so far.

Thanks for the Movie PosterApp icons, looking for a larger " Featuring " top banner the stock one looks a bit odd stuck in the middle , i understand it's to make room for the movie start and end times but i don't use that feature, do you have any you could share , I don't have any of the fancy programs need to create my own, if not could you tell me what size is needed

Thanks

9 hours ago, m0v1em4n said:

Thanks for the Movie PosterApp icons, looking for a larger " Featuring " top banner the stock one looks a bit odd stuck in the middle , i understand it's to make room for the movie start and end times but i don't use that feature, do you have any you could share , I don't have any of the fancy programs need to create my own, if not could you tell me what size is needed

Thanks

Actually all you need is a free graphics program called Gimp to make your own customized banners. Once installed go to File > New and for the image size enter either 2160 x 200 (to create a UHD banner) or 1080 x 100 (to create a HD banner) and before clicking OK I'd recommend to select Advanced and change Fill With: Background color to Fill With: Transparency. Then select OK and start experimenting with adding hardware logos and/or text. Be sure to Export As a PNG file once done.

Attached are two examples that I've made to replace the default Coming Soon and Welcome banners.

https://www.gimp.org/downloads/

Thanks very helpful info will give it a go