Matt

Awesome. Glad you got it working.

Sorry it didn't work. I'll reach out to you if I am able to modify it at some point in the future.

I tried to create an action file/python combo to change the allow skipping. It didn't work in the middle bof the sequence, but I'll test it further when I get time.

There are instructions inside the action file, which is just a text file. Go into your Kodi system settings and select "System information." Take note of your IP address. Then go back to the system settings and select "Services." Then select the "Control" and turn on "Allow remote control via HTTP." You'll need to enter a password. Take note of your username and password. Edit the action file with you system info. This may or may not allow PreShow to work on your Zidoo box.

If the allow skipping fixes it for you, then I guess that's your solution. The issue isn't anything that I can see in the logs.

Kodi launches an external player, which doesn't directly interact with PreShow. Many people use PreShow with the default player and external players without issue. There are some functionality that isn't available with external players (chapter action events), but they should work. The 1 thing I see in the log is: AESinkWASAPI: IsFormatSupported failed (AUDCLNT_E_UNSUPPORTED_FORMAT) - trying to find a compatible format And there's still a log about youtube at the moment of playback, which is super weird. 2025-05-25 22:34:17 info <general>: [- PreShow Experience -]: Experience: PLAYBACK STARTED 2025-05-25 22:34:17 info <general>: [plugin.video.youtube] Get property |play_with|: '' 2025-05-25 22:34:17 info <general>: Skipped 1 duplicate messages.. 2025-05-25 22:34:17 info <general>: [plugin.video.youtube] Clear property |busy| 2025-05-25 22:34:17 info <general>: [plugin.video.youtube] Pop property |player_json|: '' 2025-05-25 22:34:22 info <general>: [- PreShow Experience -]: Fullscreen video closed - stopping Can you disable your youtube plugin and try a sequence with just the feature and see if that behaves differently?

I don't know that this has anything to do with your issue. The loading/busy icons are part of the skin. Some skins have options to remove that. The functionality shouldn't affect how the videos play. The "allow skipping" functionality adds a blank video before and after every video so that when you hit next/previous chapter PreShow can see that and jump to the next item in the queue. Turning that off removes those videos, but I don't think it should affect whether a video plays or not.

The action files that I originally published didn't work for some people. I've since hidden the files. I may come back to it at some point, but it probably won't be any time soon. Did you edit the action files to include the details for your setup? Did you assign them to the "Beginning of PreShow" and "Before Feature" action events?

I'm planning on releasing updates to some of the old content when I get the new trivia functionality completed. I'll post back when that happens.

Have you rescanned your content after adding/updating the trivia? In your trivia module settings is the "Trivia select" set to Default? Please share a log and I'll see if I can figure out what's going on. To share a log, close out of Kodi and then reopen it. Open Preshow and preview your Trivia module in the sequence editor. Then go into the PreShow settings and scroll down in the general tab until you see "paste my kodi.log to pastebin." Click that and then click "current." Next, click Show QR code and use your phone to get the link to the pastebin page. You can either share that in this thread or send me a direct message through the site with it.

Share a log and I'll see if I can figure out what's going on. To share a log, close out of Kodi and then reopen it. Open Preshow and try to save and open a sequence. Then go into the PreShow settings and scroll down in the general tab until you see "paste my kodi.log to pastebin." Click that and then click "current." Next, click Show QR code and use your phone to get the link to the pastebin page. You can either share that in this thread or send me a direct message through the site with it.

Have you set your content path in the settings and is it writeable? It is the 1st thing in the settings, as seen in the image below.

I've tested this on Windows 11 (I don't have anything with Windows 10) a few times and haven't encountered any issues with playback. No one in the Discord channel is reporting these issues, so my best guess is it is computer specific. I'll post back if I get any new suggestions.

Very cool, and nice work by tiben20. Let us know how it works.

@suchmich1983 There are some errors for jellyfin and a random youtube one, but I'm not seeing an exact cause from the logs. I'll try to set up a windows box to test and will respond back with any findings.

Awesome. Glad that you figured it out.

I've been travelling for work and just got home yesterday, so I haven't had any time to look into this. The previous log didn't show any errors related to PreShow. The only thing the log gives is: warning <general>: CRendererHQ::CheckVideoParameters: chosen scaling method 1 is not supported by renderer warning <general>: CVideoPlayerVideo::OutputPicture - timeout waiting for buffer I'm not saying that is what is causing the issue, just that they are the only clues that we currently have. I read a few posts about DXVA causing a similar issue. Here's a link to 1 of the posts.

Share a log and I'll try to help. To share a log, close out of Kodi and then reopen it. Play a feature with Preshow. Then go into the PreShow settings and scroll down in the general tab until you see "paste my kodi.log to pastebin." Click that and then click "current." Next, click Show QR code and use your phone to get the link to the pastebin page. You can either share that in this thread or send me a direct message through the site with it.

I know I've been slow to respond to this and you've been posting things already, but I am fine with you uploading these. My only stipulation is that I don't want people uploading things that someone else is making available elsewhere. I fully support all content developers and don't want to infringe on their work. But if something is not available elsewhere and the original creator is no longer in a position to offer it online, I don't mind people sharing it here.

I group my PreShows into 2 categories, short and full. For regular movie nights I just have a simple intro and trailers. I try to keep it between 5-10 minutes. For my big movie nights I do something similar to what you described. I try to think of the experience kind of like a chef. The basic PreShow is primarily a palate cleanser. I want to get people ready to leave the world behind and enjoy a movie. The full thing is a multi-course meal, where I want to take people on a journey.

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.

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.

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.