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Hello, 

my movies are organized using the following folder structure: 

-- <dir> movies
      <dir> Batman
        Batman.avi
        Batman.nfo
        Batman-trailer.avi
      <dir> Avatar 3D SBS
        Avatar 3D SBS.mkv
        Avatar 3D SBS.nfo
        Avatar 3D SBS-trailer.mkv


Playing the Trailer of 'Batman', a normal movie in 2D, works perfectly. But when I play the trailer of 'Avatar', my TV and/or Kodi (?) switches into the 3D mode because of the additional information in the filename ('3D SBS'). Apparently nearly all trailer are just available in 2D, nevertheless it is named as '3D' and playback starts in 3D mode. 
Is there any possibility to change this behaviour ? (or is it a skin issue?)
Dos no one else experience this behaviour? 
For example, when playing the trailer for 'Avatar' it looks like in the attached picture, although the trailer is made in 2D not 3D. 

I renamed the trailer from "Avatar 3D HSBS-trailer.mp4" to "Avatar-trailer.mp4", but in this case Kodi (or the skin?) does not find the trailer 
(the directory containing the movie and trailer still is named "Avatar 3D HSBS"), so this is not a solution. 

Is there any special place in the forum or at Github where I can report this error? 
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In case anyone is looking for a solution, this is the answer from da-anda (https://trac.kodi.tv/ticket/17725): 
Quote:A solution that would work for you right away is to properly flag your 3D movies in the metadata and get rid of the "3D.SBS" flags in the filename, as the filename parsing is actually considered a hack. So the correct way to flag your files as 3D is doing it via metadata and not the filename flags. In order for the skin to still show a 3D label before Kodi was able to analyze the stream metadata (in case it's relying on the filename for that) you could still keep the "3D" flag in the filename, but omit the SBS/TAB part, in which case the 3D playback mode also won't be triggered unless the movie has correct metadata.To correctly flag your mkv's via metadata, you can use the "header editor" of mkvtoolnix (​https://mkvtoolnix.download/). The correct values for the StereoMode header can be found here ​https://www.matroska.org/technical/specs/index.html#StereoModetl;dr; get rid of the "SBS" and "TAB" flag in your filenames and instead add correct metadata to the headers of your MKVs and your issues will be gone AND work with any skin.