2011-01-28, 07:09
Hey everyone, so i spent a fair amount of time trying to figure this out. Maybe i'm just a nub but it stumped me so it has to have stumped a few others along the way.
I tried using the xbmc trailers icon in the skins but it never worked or just seemed to buffer non stop, i was able to download trailers for almost all of my movies from http://www.traileraddict.com. For most new movies it has a default download for mobile icon, when it doesn't i just downloaded manually using Replay Media Catcher (http://www.applian.com/download-videos/) its a paid for software but they have a trial (only allows 50% download) and a trial pay option.
From there you can do things two ways, 1) Ember Media Manager (just a few tweaks to get working 100%) or just place into the same folder as the movie itself.
Take a movie like 9 for example, movie is named 9.mkv, trailer in same folder rename 9-trailer.* (file type doesn't matter, flv, .mp4, whatever xbmc plays). Just make sure its the exact same name, so a movie torrented with a long name like 9-xvid-1080p-hd (2010).mkv has to have the same exact name, 9-xvid-1080p-hd (2010)-trailer.mp4
ember media manger is pretty good about taking care of everything, the big bug i ran into was that i have all of my movies in a VIDEO_TS, .vob files. It choose to name it the wrong movie, change it so that the trailer is always VIDEO_TS-trailer.* and then it'll always work.
I really like having local trailers, no more streaming, and a typical trailer is like 15mb, so super tiny. I have like 500+ movies and all together the trailers take up less than 7gb all together. Storage is cheap so i prefer it over streaming which takes forever.
Hope this helps someone and saves them the time that i took to figure it all out!!
I tried using the xbmc trailers icon in the skins but it never worked or just seemed to buffer non stop, i was able to download trailers for almost all of my movies from http://www.traileraddict.com. For most new movies it has a default download for mobile icon, when it doesn't i just downloaded manually using Replay Media Catcher (http://www.applian.com/download-videos/) its a paid for software but they have a trial (only allows 50% download) and a trial pay option.
From there you can do things two ways, 1) Ember Media Manager (just a few tweaks to get working 100%) or just place into the same folder as the movie itself.
Take a movie like 9 for example, movie is named 9.mkv, trailer in same folder rename 9-trailer.* (file type doesn't matter, flv, .mp4, whatever xbmc plays). Just make sure its the exact same name, so a movie torrented with a long name like 9-xvid-1080p-hd (2010).mkv has to have the same exact name, 9-xvid-1080p-hd (2010)-trailer.mp4
ember media manger is pretty good about taking care of everything, the big bug i ran into was that i have all of my movies in a VIDEO_TS, .vob files. It choose to name it the wrong movie, change it so that the trailer is always VIDEO_TS-trailer.* and then it'll always work.
I really like having local trailers, no more streaming, and a typical trailer is like 15mb, so super tiny. I have like 500+ movies and all together the trailers take up less than 7gb all together. Storage is cheap so i prefer it over streaming which takes forever.
Hope this helps someone and saves them the time that i took to figure it all out!!
