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Thanks for quick reply. I suppose this makes more sense to be a problem on tinymediamanager but is easily solved with a shell script, just not everyone has access to something like that. I was able to setup a cron task that migrates every file from the movie folder into the single trailer folder under the preshow directory and now everything works great!

Anyone have the default media player flicker constantly during the preshow when using something like MPC-HC as the actual player? It always shows for a split second or 2 when swapping files

Sorry, posted in this in the wrong forum. Also, in the mean time I'll just write a shell script that places it into the appropriate place but would be nice to have under a single space within the preshow

I am using tinymediamanager to scrape my movies and pull down trailers locally. However, each trailer is pulled down into the movies folder. My current directory structure is this NAS://media/Movies NAS://media/preshow/Trailers Trailers for each movie show up in NAS://media/Movies/<MovieName>/trailers/trailer.mp4 Is there anyway to have the preshow experience display only these trailers, maybe recursively based off file format, or another syntax with wildcards?

Thank you for putting this together, my wife finally said, after putting our home theater together and showing off the preshow experience, that she "see's the vision now". This project helped me piece everything together for the true theater experience at home.

Was able to confirm this by removing the reference to path in experience.py on line 914

I get an "file cannot be rendered" error when using trailers preshow with MPC-HC Here is a copy of the error 2024-01-27 12:02:15.773 T:13028 info <general>: [- PreShow Experience -]: Experience: Playing next item: VIDEO: 'https://imdb-video.media-imdb.com/vi3262564121/1434659529640-260ouz-1703955825629.mp4?Expires=1706464653&Signature=AoY0ClQqMwc-2tSYu7U-ku5WtuA0JlTnX9QbpLc889vBgTU43TEGis3WKdK-QIVSsyjET-M6bp6KefbofUOlUtql-jLewMPmJc7h4jkYh6zoIzkfqOo0e-W8-FQZ2f5f7pcGEp7gP1C~rlc8CJ3QqAUZ676NbYJT9cWKSPJ3Qb1o5Lqt~kOdWzyD3IPMhpO00KUYr0vHi84K90bN8-6yaw3Pp7L6VXwMc5OFy77klPsMk5Dwkwb3j1nqGGlsLlbY4tPZUOPmJzrmqixN8bW7CdsFnxYgzg816Hjkoe1Hs4BFWmiT14YtLKX5o~fn~5~ZQsMY5n4dzptX6FhB2~dS-w__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIFLZBVQZ24NQH3KA' 2024-01-27 12:02:16.185 T:32772 error <general>: PCRE: nothing to repeat. Compilation failed at offset 0 in expression '*' 2024-01-27 12:02:16.185 T:32772 info <general>: ExternalPlayer Filename: C:\Program Files (x86)\K-Lite Codec Pack\MPC-HC64\mpc-hc64.exe 2024-01-27 12:02:16.185 T:32772 warning <general>: ExternalPlayer: invalid value for warpcursor: none 2024-01-27 12:02:16.185 T:32772 info <general>: ExternalPlayer Tweaks: hideconsole (false), hidexbmc (false), islauncher (false), warpcursor (none) 2024-01-27 12:02:16.185 T:32772 info <general>: CExternalPlayer::OpenFile: https://imdb-video.media-imdb.com/vi3262564121/1434659529640-260ouz-1703955825629.mp4?Expires=1706464653&Signature=AoY0ClQqMwc-2tSYu7U-ku5WtuA0JlTnX9QbpLc889vBgTU43TEGis3WKdK-QIVSsyjET-M6bp6KefbofUOlUtql-jLewMPmJc7h4jkYh6zoIzkfqOo0e-W8-FQZ2f5f7pcGEp7gP1C~rlc8CJ3QqAUZ676NbYJT9cWKSPJ3Qb1o5Lqt~kOdWzyD3IPMhpO00KUYr0vHi84K90bN8-6yaw3Pp7L6VXwMc5OFy77klPsMk5Dwkwb3j1nqGGlsLlbY4tPZUOPmJzrmqixN8bW7CdsFnxYgzg816Hjkoe1Hs4BFWmiT14YtLKX5o~fn~5~ZQsMY5n4dzptX6FhB2~dS-w__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIFLZBVQZ24NQH3KA|User-Agent=Mozilla/5.0 (compatible, MSIE 11, Windows NT 6.3; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko 2024-01-27 12:02:16.185 T:14376 info <general>: CExternalPlayer::Process: Player : C:\Program Files (x86)\K-Lite Codec Pack\MPC-HC64\mpc-hc64.exe 2024-01-27 12:02:16.185 T:14376 info <general>: CExternalPlayer::Process: File : https://imdb-video.media-imdb.com/vi3262564121/1434659529640-260ouz-1703955825629.mp4?Expires=1706464653&Signature=AoY0ClQqMwc-2tSYu7U-ku5WtuA0JlTnX9QbpLc889vBgTU43TEGis3WKdK-QIVSsyjET-M6bp6KefbofUOlUtql-jLewMPmJc7h4jkYh6zoIzkfqOo0e-W8-FQZ2f5f7pcGEp7gP1C~rlc8CJ3QqAUZ676NbYJT9cWKSPJ3Qb1o5Lqt~kOdWzyD3IPMhpO00KUYr0vHi84K90bN8-6yaw3Pp7L6VXwMc5OFy77klPsMk5Dwkwb3j1nqGGlsLlbY4tPZUOPmJzrmqixN8bW7CdsFnxYgzg816Hjkoe1Hs4BFWmiT14YtLKX5o~fn~5~ZQsMY5n4dzptX6FhB2~dS-w__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIFLZBVQZ24NQH3KA|User-Agent=Mozilla/5.0 (compatible, MSIE 11, Windows NT 6.3; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko 2024-01-27 12:02:16.185 T:14376 info <general>: CExternalPlayer::Process: Content: 2024-01-27 12:02:16.185 T:14376 info <general>: CExternalPlayer::Process: Args : "{1}" /fullscreen /close 2024-01-27 12:02:16.185 T:14376 info <general>: CExternalPlayer::Process: Start 2024-01-27 12:02:16.236 T:14376 info <general>: CExternalPlayer::ExecuteAppW32: C:\Program Files (x86)\K-Lite Codec Pack\MPC-HC64\mpc-hc64.exe "C:\Program Files (x86)\K-Lite Codec Pack\MPC-HC64\mpc-hc64.exe" "https://imdb-video.media-imdb.com/vi3262564121/1434659529640-260ouz-1703955825629.mp4?Expires=1706464653&Signature=AoY0ClQqMwc-2tSYu7U-ku5WtuA0JlTnX9QbpLc889vBgTU43TEGis3WKdK-QIVSsyjET-M6bp6KefbofUOlUtql-jLewMPmJc7h4jkYh6zoIzkfqOo0e-W8-FQZ2f5f7pcGEp7gP1C~rlc8CJ3QqAUZ676NbYJT9cWKSPJ3Qb1o5Lqt~kOdWzyD3IPMhpO00KUYr0vHi84K90bN8-6yaw3Pp7L6VXwMc5OFy77klPsMk5Dwkwb3j1nqGGlsLlbY4tPZUOPmJzrmqixN8bW7CdsFnxYgzg816Hjkoe1Hs4BFWmiT14YtLKX5o~fn~5~ZQsMY5n4dzptX6FhB2~dS-w__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIFLZBVQZ24NQH3KA|User-Agent=Mozilla/5.0 (compatible, MSIE 11, Windows NT 6.3; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko" /fullscreen /close 2024-01-27 12:02:16.285 T:13028 info <general>: [- PreShow Experience -]: Experience: PLAYBACK STARTED 2024-01-27 12:02:16.341 T:13028 info <general>: [- PreShow Experience -]: Experience: VIDEO HAS GONE FULLSCREEN 2024-01-27 12:04:08.123 T:14376 info <general>: CExternalPlayer::ExecuteAppW32: WAIT_OBJECT_0 2024-01-27 12:04:08.123 T:14376 info <general>: CExternalPlayer::Process: Stop 2024-01-27 12:04:08.123 T:14376 info <general>: CExternalPlayer::Process: Showing Kodi window I have determined that if you launch the file without the user-agent query string, it launches correctly. So if I manually run the following command from CMD, it does not work C:\Program Files (x86)\K-Lite Codec Pack\MPC-HC64\mpc-hc64.exe "C:\Program Files (x86)\K-Lite Codec Pack\MPC-HC64\mpc-hc64.exe" "https://imdb-video.media-imdb.com/vi3262564121/1434659529640-260ouz-1703955825629.mp4?Expires=1706464653&Signature=AoY0ClQqMwc-2tSYu7U-ku5WtuA0JlTnX9QbpLc889vBgTU43TEGis3WKdK-QIVSsyjET-M6bp6KefbofUOlUtql-jLewMPmJc7h4jkYh6zoIzkfqOo0e-W8-FQZ2f5f7pcGEp7gP1C~rlc8CJ3QqAUZ676NbYJT9cWKSPJ3Qb1o5Lqt~kOdWzyD3IPMhpO00KUYr0vHi84K90bN8-6yaw3Pp7L6VXwMc5OFy77klPsMk5Dwkwb3j1nqGGlsLlbY4tPZUOPmJzrmqixN8bW7CdsFnxYgzg816Hjkoe1Hs4BFWmiT14YtLKX5o~fn~5~ZQsMY5n4dzptX6FhB2~dS-w__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIFLZBVQZ24NQH3KA|User-Agent=Mozilla/5.0 (compatible, MSIE 11, Windows NT 6.3; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko" /fullscreen /close but if I run C:\Program Files (x86)\K-Lite Codec Pack\MPC-HC64\mpc-hc64.exe "C:\Program Files (x86)\K-Lite Codec Pack\MPC-HC64\mpc-hc64.exe" "https://imdb-video.media-imdb.com/vi3262564121/1434659529640-260ouz-1703955825629.mp4?Expires=1706464653&Signature=AoY0ClQqMwc-2tSYu7U-ku5WtuA0JlTnX9QbpLc889vBgTU43TEGis3WKdK-QIVSsyjET-M6bp6KefbofUOlUtql-jLewMPmJc7h4jkYh6zoIzkfqOo0e-W8-FQZ2f5f7pcGEp7gP1C~rlc8CJ3QqAUZ676NbYJT9cWKSPJ3Qb1o5Lqt~kOdWzyD3IPMhpO00KUYr0vHi84K90bN8-6yaw3Pp7L6VXwMc5OFy77klPsMk5Dwkwb3j1nqGGlsLlbY4tPZUOPmJzrmqixN8bW7CdsFnxYgzg816Hjkoe1Hs4BFWmiT14YtLKX5o~fn~5~ZQsMY5n4dzptX6FhB2~dS-w__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIFLZBVQZ24NQH3KA" /fullscreen /close it plays just fine