Matt

Thank you for pointing this out. I'll test it out on other media and if nothing breaks I'll update the code.

I appreciate the feedback and agree that the menu/sequence system is difficult to use. I just don't have the bandwidth to learn how to create something like TMM for this though. I'm slow enough as is. If things ever get to the point where people are donating money for development, I'll see about having someone else create an external option.

I'm not sure what we'll get from the log, but feel free to send one to me after running a sequence with whatever error your having with the folder. You can send it to our DM disussion.

See this thread:

There are still 2 options for streamed trailers in PreShow.

This turned out to be much harder than I had anticipated when I suggested adding an aspect ratio to the conditions. I don't know why I thought that Kodi listed the movie's actual aspect ratio. I have the condition selection partially done, which you can see in the images below. I had it pull in the aspect ratio, which is when I realized that it only lists the file aspect ratio, which is 1.78:1 for every bluray rip. I could have sworn I saw different aspect ratios at some point, but I double checked and apparently not. I continued working on this and came up with a possible solution to scan IMDB to retrieve the aspect ratio that they have listed. The problem there is that it isn't a free and takes time to scrape the aspect ratio. You can see my original version of that below. I've since modified it to round to the 4 aspect ratios listed above. I can change those to include more options fairly easily though. Overall, I'd say that this is pretty close to done, but it has 2 major issues that I don't really know how to overcome. The first that I mentioned above is that it takes time to scrape the info. This happens when you are initially selecting to play your movie with PreShow. For me, it takes 2-5 seconds. The best I can think of is to add a PreShow setting on whether to allow the aspect ratio condition or not and default it to off. That way people that don't need it won't be bothered by it. But people that want to use it will still have their PreShows slowed a bit. I did put a notification on there so that you'll know what it causing the delay. It isn't a perfect solution, but it's the best that I can think of. The second problem is that I'm pulling the information from somewhere else that I can't guarantee it's accurate or will always work. This may not be a huge deal, but my scrape for They Live lists it as 2.39:1. When I took a screencap of my 4k, I measured it at 2.35:1. In other more divergent example, Vertigo lists the original aspect ratio of 2.55:1 instead of the US theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1. So that's the current status.

Here's something you can try: Go into Kodi's settings and click "File Manager." Then "Add source." SMB works easily for me, but for NFS I have to do "Add network location" and configure the link manually. It adds that at the root level across directories. I may be able to give an export/import option to the settings so that people can change settings if needed.

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No guarantee on this or timeframe, but I'll look into adding aspect ratio to the conditions. You could then trigger a different action for different aspect ratios.

Action files sends data to Kodi or some other system, but isn't configured to retrieve or store data. That could potentially be handled through an external script though. What exactly are you wanting to do?

A new year dawns, and brings with it one last hurrah for the Kodi "Nexus" release line. An assortment of bug fixes, some backports, no real new features. Full changelog since 20.2 on Github, as usual. Release notes Estuary An assortment of fixes for Estuary, including home categories' focus position, alignment of counter labels and Shift view for collections. Fixes to the weather layout when busy. Game/Retroplayer Fixed controllers not assigned to game ports correctly on Android. Fixed blue/pink washed out colours on Windows with 10-bit displays. Fixed possible crash in Port dialogue box. Fixed typo for the mouse middle button in Controller dialogue box. General A DVD playback fix that resolves unmounted drives not being playable. A fix for infinite loops in CPluginFile that occurred when using scrapers. A fix for a crash that occurred due to Addon settings being destructed in an incorrect order. Redact some information from Toast notifications (user/passwords incorrectly being shown). A memory leak in context menus was resolved. Image cache handling was fixed to correctly regenerate when cached files for JSON API consumers. Music Music Library: now able to automatically recover if library cleaning was interrupted previously for some reason. Platform Specific Android Fixed (workaround implemented) possible audio out-of-sync in recent AMLogic BSP devices: FireTV Cube 3rd Gen, Homatics Box R 4K Plus, … Linux VP9 Profile 2 playback failure was fixed. A fix for a leak of EGLFences in the DRM Prime renderer. macOS/iOS Fix a crash on Apple Silicon based Macs when pressing the Caps Lock key. tvOS Fixed: Not persistent binary addons (PVR) settings. Windows Fixed: 24 Hz refresh rate related to HDR in specific use cases only (when Windows HDR auto-switch is not used). Fixed: audio device "WASAPI:default" was listed multiple times in audio device list. Fixed: fractional refresh rates 119.88 Hz and higher they were not displayed correctly. Pictures An exif parsing regression from v19 was resolved. PVR Fix TV channel subtitles not displayed on playback start, even when activated in subtitle settings. Fix recordings with a path containing a colon (':') not being displayed in recordings window. UPNP A fix for a crash that occurred when a user added a UPNP source without having UPNP enabled. Playback from remote sources (ftp, http, etc.) has been fixed. Video A fix to the default Select action on certain movie-related windows. Thanks, as always, to 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 20.x installation - indeed, this will happen 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 v20 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 don't receive the update immediately, be patient, as it will come through over the next week. View the full article

Here is Kodi's API list: https://kodi.wiki/view/JSON-RPC_API/v13 There's an overwhelming amount of functionality in there, all of which will need detailed setup to control. Here is a link to Home Assistant's Kodi page: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/kodi/ Someone may be able to help if there's something specific you want do.

Here's the PreShow repo:

I should have originally asked this question. Is there a reason why you aren't using the PreShow Trailer Folder scraper and are using a directory instead?

Thanks for suggesting this. It is possible, but difficult, and there are some things that I should do to make it more apparent about what is possible. The IMDB trailers are limited to 1080, because that is the maximum resolution for those files. The TMDB trailers can be whatever resolution you set up your youtube plugin (input stream adaptive) to display. I currently have mine set to 4k and it looks great. Getting that to work reliably is a major pain though. I have done some work to try to make the YT side easier, as well as to provide options to download the vidoes, but that's a long process that I don't know if I'll be able to make work properly. I will post more about this in the future.

Another possible option in 0.2.5 if you want to test the trivia is to use the Playback setting -> Alternate Skip Button (Shield) and set it to set it to "Select."

What trailer scraper are you using, IMDB or TMDB? TMDB uses YouTube and IMDB loads from an MP4 file. Select 1 of the scapers and the other and see if you have issues with both or if 1 will work for you. They are both playing fine for me on a few different systems, so I'm not really sure what is the cause of the problem. Please let me know the results from testing both scrapers.

I'm not sure what the issue is, but I use a Mac for my primary computer and Function + Up Arrow works for me. What exactly is your setup?

I think it is Function + Up Arrow.

I simplified what I was doing and added code into the folder view to default to the content folder. Hopefully this will fix your problem.

To confirm, the issue is that you can't find the NAS directory from within PreShow? I have some work done on revising the folder/file browsing, but haven't completed it. In the mean time, you can always edit your sequence manually to add the folder. Select any folder for your trailers. Go into your settings and click on content path to see the location at the bottom of the window. Then navigate to your NAS in Explorer/Finder and open your sequence in notepad or another basic text editor. Find: "type": "trailer", And then a few lines below that you'll see: "dir": "the-folder-you-selected", Replace the-folder-you-selected with the location of your Trailer Folder. Let me know if that works for you. I'll let you know when I get the browse updated.

@Tom I'm not sure what you mean. Please create a new thread here: https://preshowexperience.com/forums/forum/11-support/ And provide as much detail as possible.

The first log doesn't have anything related to PreShow in it. Here's your sequence per the 2nd log: [- PreShow Experience -] (API): [VideoBumper] ('Commercials') DISABLED [- PreShow Experience -] (API): [VideoBumper] ('Theater Outro') DISABLED [- PreShow Experience -] (API): [Feature] ('Feature') DISABLED [- PreShow Experience -] (API): [VideoBumper] 'Courtesy' [- PreShow Experience -] (API): - Random [- PreShow Experience -] (API): [Trivia] 10m [- PreShow Experience -] (API): [VideoBumper] 'Trivia Outro' [- PreShow Experience -] (API): - Random [- PreShow Experience -] (API): [VideoBumper] 'Theater Intro' [- PreShow Experience -] (API): - Random [- PreShow Experience -] (API): - No matches! [- PreShow Experience -] (API): - NOT SHOWING [- PreShow Experience -] (API): [VideoBumper] 'Trailers Intro' [- PreShow Experience -] (API): - Random [- PreShow Experience -] (API): - No matches! [- PreShow Experience -] (API): - NOT SHOWING [- PreShow Experience -] (API): [Trailer] Directory x 2 [- PreShow Experience -] (API): - Using: 'Trivia Intro' [- PreShow Experience -] (API): [AudioFormatBumper] Method: af.detect Fallback: af.format Format: Other [- PreShow Experience -] (API): - Detect [- PreShow Experience -] (API): - Detect: Looked at the file path 'Le Fantome du Bengale (1996).mkv' and decided to keep audio format 'Dolby Digital' [- PreShow Experience -] (API): - Detect: No codec matches! [- PreShow Experience -] (API): - Format: No matches! [- PreShow Experience -] (API): - NOT SHOWING [- PreShow Experience -] (API): [VideoBumper] 'Feature Outro' [- PreShow Experience -] (API): - Random [- PreShow Experience -] (API): - No matches! [- PreShow Experience -] (API): - NOT SHOWING [- PreShow Experience -] (API): [VideoBumper] 'Trailers Outro' [- PreShow Experience -] (API): - Random [- PreShow Experience -] (API): - No matches! [- PreShow Experience -] (API): - NOT SHOWING The items in red won't play. Here's what is being played: Experience: Playing next item: VIDEO: '/sdcard/PreShow/Video Bumpers/Courtesy/IMAX_IW_ADJ2_1080p_AC3_51-thedigitaltheater.mp4' Experience: Playing next item: VIDEO: '/sdcard/PreShow/Video Bumpers/Trivia Outro/Intro_2.mp4 error opening [/sdcard/PreShow/Video Bumpers/Trivia Intro] This log shows that your feature module is disabled and it is unable to play from the directory that you have set up for your trailers. It is 100% possible that PreShow will never work on your Zidoo box. I have a different version and can't guarantee that the setup is the same across the board.

How would this be used? I don't think there are existing AAC or MP3 audio format bumpers.

I still have 1 big issues that I want to resolve before trying to get PreShow into the official repository. I hope to make my own repo available early next year.