MidnightWatcher

It was down yesterday but up again this morning. I've been test running the Kodi v22 nightly builds on Windows and it's been working well with PSE so far.

Best 10 movies of 2025 for me that I've seen are as follows (in no particular order): Frankenstein Predator Badlands F1 Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning Wake Me Up Dead Man Nuremberg The Fantastic Four: First Steps Warfare Predator: Killer of Killers The Gorge Biggest 5 disappointments for me in 2025: Superman Captain America: Brave New World Thunderbolts Tron: Ares Now You See Me: Now You Don't

I'm a huge fan of The Conjuring films with 1 and 2 being the gold standard imho for this genre. Honorable mention goes out to The Fourth Kind (it still freaks me out to this day as it reminds me of a night nearly 3 decades ago when I found myself awakened in bed for some reason and locked eyes with something staring back at me at the foot of my bed and I couldn't move a muscle). It's the only film I can't watch in the room alone. If you're looking for something different check out Strange Harvest. 👀

I have this installed on another PC and it already looks polished and feels snappy. Feels more like a RC.

That's a known issue and I believe there's a workaround mentioned in the thread but that should be fixed in the next release. If you mention the issue there someone should be able to assist.

FWIW, one of the Kodi developers is working on a more recent release that allows you to integrate madVR into Kodi directly. It's still a work in progress obviously but I'm guessing it may allow you to use the credits trigger (and still use madVR, which I presume is why you're using MPC-HC as an external player). I wouldn't recommend installing it over your existing Kodi install, however, but install on another PC if possible and test it out first before making any switch. https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=223175&page=547

The credits trigger only work if using Kodi's built-in videoplayer. PSE doesn't communicate directly with external players like MPC-BE or mpv.

Are you asking where you can download trailers? Here is where I get mine. They're VERY large but good quality, though you'll need to likely download to know which are Green trailers. https://www.digital-digest.com/movies/

It's August 2nd and I haven't added the updated python file yet as I wanted to see if the action files would now cause an error or just fail to trigger the Philips Hue lights. It's still working at the moment, so perhaps the change is being rolled out somehow. I do see an update for the Philips Hue app in the Google Play Store but I've set it up to no longer auto update (both in the Play Store and within the app itself). Maybe the new app version implements the change / updates the bridge firmware?

Thanks Matt. Will this be a temporary fix until we figure out how to update the action files or can this be applied as a permanent fix?

I use an external player with Kodi and it works well. Since all my movies in my library are in the mkv format I have the playercorefactory.xml set up to only use the external player for mkv files. All downloaded trailers and video bumpers are mp4 (or I rename them to mp4) so Kodi's internal player will take care of those.

Looks like Team-XBMC Developer tbiden20 is spearheading an upcoming Kodi release for Windows that will once again include DSPlayer (allows using madvr directly in Kodi) to be followed later with additional support for libplacebo. This is great news for those who don't want to contend with having to use external players for Kodi and the loss of resume functionality. Furthermore, one additional feature was just added that will benefit users of PreShow Experience directly, especially projector owners. See below for details. https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=223175&pid=3231774#pid3231774

Overwrite. Sometimes those may be higher resolution versions of older logos. For example, this latest update includes new Atlas Film, Lucas Arts, Focus Features and Mandalay Pictures logos.

It's been awhile since I've used ratings. I believe the rating was a video, but thinking about it perhaps it was an image that faded in then out? 🤔

Yes that's good also, though I've moved mine out of the theater and one floor above.