Matt

Okay, a late announcement - apologies, you can blame the summer holiday season. Or, if it's easier, you can just blame me as the bloke with the keyboard, that works equally well. Either way, many of you will already have noticed this, but, in case you haven't ... Team Kodi is here with the first point release of the 21.x "Omega" series. A range of bugfixes have been collected since the original release of Omega 21.0. Rather than list them all here, you can see the full changelog on Github, as usual. We always want to thank everyone who has helped us track down and fix any issues. We endeavour to minimise the issues everyone experiences, but with such a large project, and the fact everyone contributing to Kodi is a volunteer, issues and bugs are a part of life. If you happen to experience any bugs/issues, don't hesitate to reach out on the forums, or raise an issue on Github. As this is a point release, there are no major changes since the previous version, and you should be fine to install this straight over the top of any existing Kodi 21.0 installation - indeed, this will happen, and probably already has happened, automatically on many platforms. However, as for all software installations, back up your userdata beforehand if you've any doubts or have anything you can't afford to lose (and definitely do this if you're going for a major version upgrade). A list of all changes for this version can be found at GitHub. If you want to read back on the full history of v21 itself, or of previous versions, you can find the corresponding articles in the relevant blog posts. Application deployment on different platforms (notably the Microsoft Store) can vary considerably due to circumstances outside of our control, so just be patient, and the update will inevitably find its way through. Android Deployment We always do what's known as a "staged" deployment roll out for Android. So if you didn't receive the update immediately, it should have come through over the following week or so, and rollout should now be complete. View the full article

Preshow 100% plays mp4s. The issue is something else.

Share a log file and I can try to figure out what's going on. Trailers should be set to random and not ewest. The old addon would mark trailers as watched if you preview/test them, which Preshow doesn't do. So if you have it set to newest it will always show the same newest trailers in your tests. That's the expected behavior. They should get marked as watched when you show them before a feature though. What system do you use? My Mac has copied over files that PreShow doesn't know isn't an expected file (.bumer.mp4 along with bumper.mp4). I'm not sure if that's what's going on or not though.

This may not be exact, but it is something like: http://<username>:<password>@<ip-address>:8080/jsonrpc {"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "Player.PlayPause", "params": { "playerid": 0 }, "id": 1} sleep://120000 http://<username>:<password>@<ip-address>:8080/jsonrpc {"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "Player.PlayPause", "params": { "playerid": 0 }, "id": 1} At 1 point I started to build in an option to pause it and pop up a display saying it was pause for a certain amount of time. But then I remembered that most people have disabled those messages with PreShow and it would just cause more confusion.

@Bertronics I'm not sure how to control your specific switches. My recommendation would be to set them up on some sort of home automation system and then hopefully you can use one of the existing threads for help. I think home assistant can control them, and there are a couple threads about that.

Glad you got it fixed.

The latest version of PreShow has an option for middle chapter. This doesn't really provide any specific functionality at this point, but someone could use an action file to pause the film, or do anything else that can be done in an action file. This request just happened to come in as I was working on the last chapter/credits functionality so I set up at least an initial step at that point. I may add more functionality to this at some point, but I have a bunch of other things to do on my list prior to that.

@EpitaphNice double feature. I own Christine, but haven't seen The Last American Virgin in decades.

@Polargeek Nice. Thanks for posting those PG. I remember seeing Deep Blue Sea in the theater. For whatever reason, I decided I wanted to make a day out of dinner and a movie. We went to breakfast and a 10am showing of The 6th Sense in 1 city. We then drove to another city where we had lunch and saw Detroit Rock City. And then we drove to a city in a different state for dinner and saw the final showing of Deep Blue Sea. I think we did something else in each city, but 25 years later I couldn't say what that was. But I do remember seeing all 3 of those films in the same day. I think matinees were like $3-5 and the evening show was $5-7. I don't know if I could afford to do that now.

When I was a kid, my parents had a blacked out room with a massive 35-40" TV. I would invite friends over and would ask them to bring a rented VHS tape over and we'd watch that, along with something that I selected. One time I put on one of my favorite movies, The Road Warrior. As we were watching it, my buddy kept saying that it reminded him so much of his movie and he thought that maybe the same actor played the main character in both movies. And then we put on his favorite movie: Mad Max. We were young and there wasn't an internet for us to learn about movies, so we had no idea that they were sequels. We obviously became best friends after. I've always loved having double features for my movie nights. Is that something that you do? I spend a lot of time trying to find short films, commercials and other content to set the appropriate mood for the movies. My double features may be by the same director, have an actor in common, or have some sort of shared bond in theme, time period or setting. I would love to hear some movies that you think work well together as a double feature. Here are the rules: Post 2 movies with trailers and explain why they work well together. Unlike my accental example, don't use sequels. I look forward to seeing what you think are great double features.

@Epitaph Sorry, I haven't explained the details about these yet. This is currently in the supporter early access section. I created this section to give people that have supported PreShow the opportunity to download content that I am working on. When I have time to test it in my home theater, I'll make sure there aren't any issues and then create the zip. Also, if supporters want to test it for me, just let me know that you watched a couple files and that everything played fine. I'm not really looking for critiques on the video itself, just a note about if plays and sounds ok. When I get through the current backlog of bumper sets (I currently have ~30 sets rendered that I am working on audio), I will then start releasing 1 bumper set a month to the bumper sets available to everyone. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Modern Shockwave Bumper Set View File 4k Modern Shockwave bumper set with surround sound. Videos include: Courtesy Feature Intro Feature Outro Intermission Theater Intro Theater Outro Trailers Intro Trailers Outro Trivia Intro Trivia Outro Sponsors PreShow Experience Submitter Matt Submitted 07/13/2024 Category Supporter Early Access  

Ancient Gold Bumper Set View File Ancient Gold bumper set with surround sound. Videos include: Courtesy Feature Intro Feature Outro Intermission Theater Intro Theater Outro Trailers Intro Trailers Outro Trivia Intro Trivia Outro Sponsors PreShow Experience Submitter Matt Submitted 07/13/2024 Category PreShow Bumper Sets  

I'm always interested to see how people use PreShow. Please let me know what modules you use and feel free so share any description of what you do with your PreShows?

@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.

Awesome. It's always nice when something works.

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.

The dev version can be installed from the repo:

PreShow currently only starts movies at the beginning. I may evaluate this in the future, but don't have any plans in the near future since resuming doesn't recreate the movie experience. If this is something that you'd like, please post it in the feature requests. I gauge interest in things that aren't on my roadmap by the amount of people that show interest there.

@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.

I have a fix that I hope will help with this in the dev version of the repo for testing.

The fix for this is currently in the dev version of the repo for testing.

I just installed the official version of Arctic Zephyr Reloaded from the repo in Kodi and didn't see the loading/busy icon. It appears to have all the PreShow content. The only thing that I had to do was enable Cinema Experience in the settings from within a movie to show the PreShow button. I tested in on a PC and a Shield. Try the official version and let me know if it works.

I don't think the issue is Shield related. Editing it on the Shield may be an issue, but I regularly use a Shield without the loading icon. Feel free to respond in your other thread and I'll try to help.

Can you use this version? I'm not sure what's going on with your edit. 1 alternate thing to try is to unzip the file on your PC, make your changes locally, rezip it and the install that zip from the Shield.