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The Trailers tab sets your preferences for trailer sources.  Each option is described below.

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Content Scrapers

Scrapers look in certain locations for new trailers and store them in a database on your system.  These option

Trailers: PreShow Trailers Folder - These are any trailers that you have in the Trailers folder in your PreShow content directory.

Trailers Kodi Database - These are YouTube trailers for movies on your system.

Trailers: Apple iTunes - iTunes trailers from the apple site.

Trailers: The Movie Database - These are YouTube trailers from TMDB

 

Module Defaults

Clear trailers watched status - PreShow marks any trailers that have watched.  This resets the watched list.

Prefer unwatched over priority - This will set a preference for unwatched trailers if you don't any trailers that match your criteria

Source - Select your trailer source from the following options:

  • Content

  • Directory

  • Single File

Source content filter (scraper) - Select from the scrapers mentioned above.  You may need to restart the settings after modifying your content scrapers to make sure they all display here

Content order - Select how your content is selected:

  • Newest

  • Random

Source: Directory - Select a folder on your system that may contain multiple files to be selected randomly

Source: Single File - Select a single trailer file to show.

Count - The number of trailers to be shown.

Rating Limit - Options include:

  • None - Allows any trailers of any ratings

  • Max - Limit the ratings to a selected in the Max setting below

  • Match Feature - Filters trailers with a rating that matched the feature film

Max - Sets a max rating for trailers

Match feature genre - Selects trailers with one of the same genres as the feature film

Filter for 3D based on feature - Will play 3d trailers, if available

Quality - select your preferred resolution of 720 or 1080 

Volume (% of current) - Sets the volume for trailers