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Hello, I'm trying to exclude .dat files and video files with 'sample' or 'trailer' in the title.

I had .dat working but sample/trailer isn't working at all.

xml:
<advancedsettings>

   <videoextensions>

        <remove>.dat</remove>

   </videoextensions>

<video>

<excludefromscan>

<regexp>[-\._ ](sample|trailer)[-\._ ]</regexp>

</excludefromscan>

<excludefromlisting>

<regexp>[-\._ ](sample|trailer)[-\._ ]</regexp>

</excludefromlisting>

</video>

</advancedsettings>

Any code correction would be appreciated.

(2020-04-01, 23:51)Paft Wrote: [ -> ]Any code correction would be appreciated.

Works for me, just add or change the words to match your exclusion.

Thank you.

Could you please show me how you'd  .dat  and 'sample' 'trailer' because I cannot get it working together.

Edit: In the meantime I've just used everything.exe and deleted any video file with 'sample' 'trailer' in the title and used:

xml:
<advancedsettings>

  <video>

    <excludefromscan action="append">

      <regexp>(~uTorrentPartFile)</regexp>

    </excludefromscan>

    <excludefromlisting action="append">

      <regexp>(~uTorrentPartFile)</regexp>

    </excludefromlisting>

  </video>

</advancedsettings>

(2020-04-01, 23:51)Paft Wrote: [ -> ]I had .dat working

Thought you had .dat working. Any trailers within the movie folder must be named "any movie name-trailer.ext" without the quotes. Key here is the -trailer appended to the name. If the trailers have already been scraped as videos into your library, you must delete the listing manually or clear the library and re-fresh. Using and exclusion or extras folder would allow you to hide just about anything. New features for multiple videos are on the horizon.

Could you kindly paste an example because I am just not getting it. Samples and dat files are still coming through.

I only had dat working when it was like this:

xml:
<advancedsettings>

<videoextensions>

<remove>.dat</remove>

</videoextensions>

<video>

</advancedsettings>

This doesn't  work:

xml:
<advancedsettings>

  <video>

<excludefromscan>

        <regexp>[-\._ ](sample|Sample|Trailer|trailer|Preview|preview|dat|~uTorrentPartFile)[-\._ ]</regexp>

</excludefromscan>

<excludefromlisting><!-- Regular expressions that if evaluated to true won't be displayed in Files View -->

       <regexp>[-._ \\/](|sample|Sample|Trailer|trailer|Preview|preview|dat|~uTorrentPartFile)[-._ \\/]</regexp>

</excludefromlisting>

  </video>

</advancedsettings>

edit: If you don't hear from me again I think this works.:

xml:
<advancedsettings>

  <video>

    <excludefromscan action="append">

      <regexp>(trailer|sample|Sample|Trailer|trailer|Preview|preview|dat|~uTorrentPartFile)</regexp>

    </excludefromscan>

    <excludefromlisting action="append">

      <regexp>(trailer|sample|Sample|Trailer|trailer|Preview|preview|dat|~uTorrentPartFile)</regexp>

    </excludefromlisting>

  </video>

</advancedsettings>

Glad that solution works for you, I would suggest that a movie folder should only contain the movie & met-data supported by Kodi, that;s what the Add-on:Extras (wiki) folder is for OR an  exclusion folder. In your .xml the  local trailer will not be played from the Kodi interface, Kodi will be looking for the key '-trailer' designation.