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

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

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.

The skin was updated a couple of days ago with official support for PSE: https://github.com/beatmasterRS/skin.arctic.zephyr.mod/commit/42844fc6e6434d6486747765232ad170552f2aa8 It works perfectly on Kodi 21.

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:

FIXED! It seemed like the Kodi App had all permissions (4 out of 4), but opening up "Storage" revealed it only had Read permission. Completely my own mistake. Hopefully, @JustRob and others might find this helpful.

Glad you got it working. For anyone that reads this, please start your actions files with something very simple to make sure that it is working, and then add onto it. If you have another action file that is working, just copy that to start.

I looked at this for a solid hour and finally solved it. For whatever reason my folder structure had 'trailers' folders in two places - one folder was empty, the deeper folder was the correct one. By selecting the folder that was empty, I suppose PSE was looking for content via addon in lieu of that. What's weird is that I did have tmdb/ etc. disabled, but the message still showed. Either way, my problem is solved. Maybe someone in a similar position will find this useful - double-check folder location validity ! Thanks boys.

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.

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 ..

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

Please let me know if you'd like to get a full video bumper set for Thanksgiving.

Hello everyone, First of all I would like to thank you for the great program. you did a great job! Can you set somewhere that only trailers are streamed in German? Thanks

In any case, German, you would make some people here happy. Thanks

View File PreShow Experience Halloween Night Intro Video This video included the standard bumpers all in 1 video for a great halloween intro. Submitter Matt Submitted 10/08/2024 Category Holiday Bumpers  

View File PreShow Halloween Monster 2024 Enjoy this short PreShow monster bumper for Halloween 2024. Submitter Matt Submitted 10/06/2024 Category Holiday Bumpers  

The filename doesn't matter. http://192.168.178.33/api/wsltUbHQbdnDhDEidaNJQg2s85Nv9OldLPE6TYeT/groups/Wand/action PUT: { "on": true } sleep://180000 http://192.168.178.33/api/wsltUbHQbdnDhDEidaNJQg2s85Nv9OldLPE6TYeT/groups/Wand/action PUT: { "on": false, "transitiontime": 500 } Use the above code in an actual movie and not the test or preview.

You might want to look into kodi.call_method in Home Assistant. I haven't played a movie from inside home assistant, though when I've got more time I intend to do it. For now I have a powershell script that can play a movie, thanks to some guidance from a user on the old addon board called shredder(?). Here's the chunk of powershell code I use to generate the call. You can pick out your method/parameters etc from in there. It may not be much, but it should be able to get you started. Let me know what you come up with--so I can steal that too! $data = @{ 'jsonrpc' = '2.0' 'method' = 'Addons.ExecuteAddon' 'id' = 1 params = @{ addonid = 'script.preshowexperience' params = @{movieid = "$pickedmovieid"} } } $json = $data | ConvertTo-Json -Depth 100 $url = 'http://'+$playerip+':'+$playerport+'/jsonrpc' $mycreds = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential ($username, $secpwd) Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $url -Credential $mycreds -Body $json -ContentType application/json -Method POST #-AllowUnencryptedAuthentication

@KHCthanks for reporting back. I will add a few additional debug lines to the next dev version to try to figure out what's going on with your system. I'll PM you when it is ready so that we can discuss in more detail.

You should be able to do that already. Go into the PreShow settings and then to the trailers category. Enable Kodi Database (YouTube). This pulls whatever info Kodi has for the movie, which for most people will be YouTube links. If you have local files it will scan those. Then make sure you go to the general tab and rescan your content. Next edit your sequence and edit the trailer module. You want the source to be content and the scraper to be Kodi Database. Let me know if that works for you.

Thanks for quick response and pointing to right direction. Adding skin really helped me going. Thanks, again! ~ Ani

You could do it with an action file and a Amazon echo

@KHC I am still trying to figure out your issue. I'll respond back at a later date. @omarobyI didn't see your log in discord. I tested the credits action on my Nvidia Shield many times and had no problems with the release version. Share the log and I'll see if I can figure out what's going on.

You may be able to turn the external player off and on again so that the preshow uses the internal and the movie plays with the external. Here are instructions and action files for Zidoo, which may work for you:

Hi, sorry I was busy the last days. @MattAcid303 wants to play a single file from the "theater intro"-folder. But in this folder there are many videos and everytime he tries to test his Preshow, every video gets played instead of the via "play single file" option choosen one. As soon as every video was played, it starts with the first one again. (I guess that is the reason why he had to abort it in the logfile.) He uses a Himedia q10 pro with Kodi 20.5. @acid303 Hi, sorry für die späte Antwort. Ich habe dein Problem übersetzt und glaube, dass es ein Bug ist. Welche PSE Version nutzt du denn? Kodi 20.5 sollte kein Problem darstellen, das nutze ich auch. Werde gleich mal PSE aktualisieren und schauen, ob der Fehler bei mir auch auftritt, wenn ich eine einzelne Datei auswähle

I meant that it has been revised since the previously released version and I haven't encountered any issues on my shield with the new code. The updated code will be in the next release.

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).