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I will be working on some site updated over the holidays. It may be a little bumpy during the process.

Good News: The creator of the Rapier skin has just put out a new development version. Rapier v13.0.14 now includes support for PreShow Experience. You can download the development add-on repository here: https://kodi.wiki/view/Add-on:Rapier#Development_version_.2F_Gade.27s_Add-on_Repository

Hi, as i am currently unable to access the file system of my shieldtv for reasons i cannot explain, i can only suggest a solution. Everything else is up to the respective balster. Since I can't download the zip file of the installation either, I'll show my way here using the original Cinemavision. The paths differ only in the names. The files are (as far as I could see) the same. Trailers are provided via the so-called scraper.py files. I mainly use tmdb. So I can find my corresponding scraper under [KodiAddOn]\script.preshowexperience\lib\preshowexperience\scrapers\tmdb Open the date scraper.py with a corresponding editor (I use Notpad++) and look in the first lines for the BASE_URL This looks as follows BASE_URL = 'https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/{endpoint}?language=en-US&api_key=' + API_KEY I then change this to BASE_URL = 'https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/{endpoint}?language=en-DE&api_key=' + API_KEY Read here -> https://developer.themoviedb.org/docs/languages Save, restart Kodi and enjoy the trailers in German (or any other language). Hope that helps For all who are interrested in and are a

I have found a bunch of movie theater etiquitte/policy videos. Feel free to add your favorites. HITCHCOCK: Turn Your Phones Off PSA Movie Theater Courtesy | 28 | Manners Monday Mr. Bean Cinema Policy Trailer (1997) [4K] [FTD-0911] AMC Policy Trailer - Dr. Seuss' The Lorax AMC Policy Spot - Minions vs. Evil Minion - DESPICABLE ME 2 Resist the Urge - Madagascar 3 at AMC Theatres! Ice Age: Continental Drift - AMC Policy Trailer - John Leguizamo, Ray Romano, Denis Leary Epic The Movie: Cell Phone Policy Trailer AMC Theatres Policy Trailer | The Muppets Minions -- Regal Crown Club Loyalty Card -- Regal Cinemas [HD] Robots Mobile Phone Policy (2005) Parental Guidance -- In Theater Policy PSA Featuring Billy Crystal 2012 [HD] Movie Theater Etiquette Neil Hamburger Texas Theatre Policy Silence Trailer - Toy Story 3 [1080p HD] Silence Your Cell Phone! Silence Your Phone Stereo Mix Ver2 10 29 14 Silence Your Cell Phone Winner Rio 2 - Silence Your Cellphones and Use CineMode! Silence Cell Phones 2 Scary Movie | 'Shakespeare in Blood' (HD) - Regina Hall, Shawn Wayans | MIRAMAX Don't Be THAT Bird - Turn on CineMode! Don't Talk PSA | Kevin Bacon | Alamo Drafthouse Snowden | "Oliver Stone: Turn Off Your Phone PSA" Exclusive | Global Road Entertainment Santikos "Turn It Off" Cell Phone PSA Turn Off Cell Phones PSA Welcome to the cinema GEICO Theater Preview With The Gecko - Silence Your Cell Phones! (2013) Movie Theater Etiquette

Great thread for Philips Hue users. For anyone who wants to call up scenes in your sequence, just first create the scene using the Philips Hue app and then use the action file to call up that specific scene during your sequence. I've attached a screenshot of mine, for example (I have Trivia and Trailers scenes). Here's the content of the action file that I use to activate the "Trailers" scene in the Philips Hue app just before the movie trailers: #http://<hue-bridge-ip>/api/<hue-bridge-user>/groups/<hue-light-group>/action #PUT:{"on":true,"scene":"<scene ID>","transitiontime":50} http://192.168.1.11/api/28555ae631edc91926d069d5d87f165/groups/theater room/action PUT:{"on":true,"scene":"MC2o4oftCOT2ng6","transitiontime":50} You can set the transition time to any value you like. I prefer 50. To find the "code" that identifies the Philips Hue scene you want to activate, use the debug tool. In a web browser enter: http://<bridge IP address>/debug/clip.html In the URL field of the CLIP API Debugger, enter: /api/<username> Click GET and then search (CTRL+F) for the scene you want to activate in your sequence. For example, to activate the "Trailers" scene I created in the Philips Hue app I searched for "Trailers" and the ID of the scene is "MC2o4oftCOT2ng6" (it'll be found in the Command Response window at the bottom).

Confirming this bug. Thanks for letting me know. It has now been reprogrammed to keep track of what is already disabled and to return the sequence to the state that it was prior to the preview.

Perfect timing. I added in a section for commercials in the video bumpers for the next version of PSE.

I think once PSE is added to the official Kodi repository it'll receive official support from Gade and a few others.

Hey @Quebert . Welcome back. It's always great to hear from people that enjoy PreShow, and the versions prior to it. The conditions were developed by the person before me. An upcoming versions of PreShow will include metadata so that you can display more relevant trivia. The goal is to create the conditions at the content level instead of at the sequence level so that you can use 1 sequence for a wide variety of content. More specifically, the 1st version will look at rating and genres and deliver content that is a better match to your movie. For example, if you are watching an R rated horror movie you won't be getting Pixar trivia, and vice versa. The latest version of PreShow in the repo already includes the 1st version of metadata for video bumpers. I also have options for release year, director and cast to better refine the content, but that will be in development/testing for a long while. Thanks for your post.

The PreShow Experience addon for Kodi. It's the #1 "wow factor" when someone sees it in action for the first time -- trivia, intros, trailers, Philips Hue lighting control. It creates a very unique home theater experience.

My JVC X790 projector is behind the first row and just above the second row. I set it about 12 feet back from lens to screen to allow a 10-foot screen at the shortest throw to maximize brightness. If I ever need to replace it I'll likely get a JVC NZ500 and set it about 16 feet back to accommodate a 10-foot screen at the longest throw to maximize contrast (it'll be plenty bright).

Digital Cinema PreShow Experience Bumper Set 4k Digital Cinema bumper set with 5.1 surround sound Videos include: Courtesy Feature Intro Feature Outro Intermission PreShow Theater Intro Theater Outro Trailers Intro Trailers Outro Trivia Intro Trivia Outro Sponsors File Information Submitter Matt Submitted 02/11/2025 Category PreShow Bumper Sets View File

Happy 2025 everyone. I hope you’re ringing in the new year with joy, relaxation, and maybe even a few of your favorite movies. There’s nothing like cozying up at home, diving into a great story, and sharing the magic of cinema with loved ones. Here’s to a year filled with happiness, laughter, and endless movie nights! 🍿✨ What are you most looking forward to in 2025? Let us know—we’d love to hear!

I just watched trailers in English, German, French & Spanish. 1 important thing to note is the language is set at the point of the scan, not at playback. There's also a file stored in PreShow's data so that you can hammer the scraper, so the trailer language can't be updated quickly unless that file is deleted. In other words, you can't quickly change between languages. I went with what I think would be the 10 most common NA or European languages. This should be in the next dev or official version of PreShow. Also, I'm going to change the title of this topic since it affects other languages.

Thanks for pointing that out @BananenTV. I think that the full list of tmdb languages include: Code Language Region ar-AE Arabic United Arab Emirates ar-SA Arabic Saudi Arabia bg-BG Bulgarian Bulgaria bn-BD Bengali Bangladesh ca-ES Catalan Spain ch-GU Chamorro Guam cs-CZ Czech Czech Republic da-DK Danish Denmark de-DE German Germany el-GR Greek Greece en-US English United States eo-EO Esperanto - es-ES Spanish Spain es-MX Spanish Mexico eu-ES Basque Spain fa-IR Persian Iran fi-FI Finnish Finland fr-CA French Canada fr-FR French France he-IL Hebrew Israel hi-IN Hindi India hu-HU Hungarian Hungary id-ID Indonesian Indonesia it-IT Italian Italy ja-JP Japanese Japan ka-GE Georgian Georgia kn-IN Kannada India ko-KR Korean South Korea lt-LT Lithuanian Lithuania ml-IN Malayalam India nb-NO Norwegian Bokmål Norway nl-NL Dutch Netherlands no-NO Norwegian Norway pl-PL Polish Poland pt-BR Portuguese Brazil pt-PT Portuguese Portugal ro-RO Romanian Romania ru-RU Russian Russia sk-SK Slovak Slovakia sl-SI Slovenian Slovenia sr-RS Serbian Serbia sv-SE Swedish Sweden ta-IN Tamil India te-IN Telugu India th-TH Thai Thailand tr-TR Turkish Turkey uk-UA Ukrainian Ukraine vi-VN Vietnamese Vietnam zh-CN Chinese China zh-TW Chinese Taiwan I'll make a setting for the language for tmdb. Anywant want to test other languages and let me know if they should be added to PreShow?

@mariusGlad that you got the skin working for you. As a recommendation for everyone, if you have an addon/skin that you rely on, don't update to new versions of Kodi on your main system until you've seen that the addon/skin is compatible with it.

Hey @ani. Make sure that you've restarted Kodi after installing PreShow. There are 2 ways to launch PreShow. The 1st is to open the context menu and select PreShow Experience. The 2nd is to install a skin that has PreShow in it. I don't keep track of all of the skins that work with PreShow, but here are a few that have been modified: https://preshowexperience.com/files/category/7-skins/ Let me know if you have issues after trying these.

Du musst dafür die DialogBusy Datei in deiner Kodi Skin bearbeiten. Heimkinopraxis.de hat dafür eine Anleitung. Bei manchen der zur Verfügung gestellten Skins ist es auch schon gemacht.

It's currently just straight random order, so if you have 75% of your slides in 1 folder, then ~75% of what is displayed will be from that folder. The only current option is to put slides in different folders and set the trivia folder in different sequences to play them. The upcoming versions of PreShow will include some more filters and ways to differentiate what slides you are getting, and at some point I hope to get more trivia added.

I removed the download links for the previous dev version. I only keep them up long enough for me to get the feedback that I need. The most recent dev version is available here:

MyScopeNox for PreShow Experience in Kodi 20 View File This is a modified version of MyScopeNox for use with PreShow Experience Submitter Matt Submitted 03/08/2023 Category Skins  

The Apple iTunes Movie Trailers site has been shut down. Because of this iTunes trailers in PreShow will no longer work. I'll post more when there is additional news.

Supporting Actress 1936-2022 Oscars Best Supporting Actress Winners for the years 1936-2022 Data was obtained from oscars.org and photos from tmdb.org File Information Submitter starslayer74 Submitted 12/13/2023 Category Trivia View File

Personally, I wouldn't generate new slides at a resolution less than 1920x1080. I wish I could have created all my old slides at a higher resolution and exported them at 1080p. Because now I could re-export at 1440p or 4K At 1080p they don't look bad on a 4K display, but depending on the source material many of my old 480p and 720p slides look awful. So basically I'd create anything new at the highest possible resolution based on available source material and then export at the resolution of my display but keep the originals to update later at a higher resolution. Also, most free upscaling tools I've tried have done a pretty poor job at it, but your mileage may vary.

Thanks for pointing that out. I was trying to fix something else on the site and it apparently broke the menu. I think it is fixed now.

Glad you got it running. Video tutorials are definitely on the to-do list.

There were 2 trivia packs that had incorrectly structured file names. Replace your files with the correct files below and it should work.

Mines getting there, got alot more work to do on it tho..

I think I have this fixed. If so, it will be in the next version.

PSE is 19.5 compatible. I just tried it and was able to install it without issue. Sometimes a dependency won't transfer properly at a certain time, which I think is an issue with the Kodi servers. I'll provide links to the dependencies when I get a chance so that people can manually download them if this happens. @Greg KinneyCan you try to install it again?

Smoke 4K Bumper Set View File 4K smoke themed bumper set with surround sound Videos include: 3D Intro 3D Outro Countdown Courtesy Feature Intro Feature Outro Intermission Theater Intro Theater Outro Trailers Intro Trailers Outro Trivia Intro Trivia Outro Sponsors PreShow Experience Submitter Matt Submitted 03/13/2023 Category Bumpers  

I haven't tracked down the code for that link yet but I have changed the code in mine so Preshow displays instead of CinemaVision while you're playing your sequence (I'm talking about when your motion posters detects your useing CinemaVision and it's not something with a poster art attached to it like trivia for example it would display CinemaVision logo) I switched mine to Preshow

Page up takes you to the next module. You can keymap a button on your remote to do it. https://kodi.wiki/view/Add-on:Keymap_Editor

I would appreciate a mod for rapier, too

I use it for lights and everything else but i think I might be unique in i also use it to make audio announcements to the whole house like " TheThe movie preshow has begun.. dont Forget to grab some popcorn and refreshments.. NightWatcherTheater snackbar is now open"