[GoofyJeff]

With the ability to save various sequences, will it eventually be possible for the add-on to choose one of those sequences at random? Obviously not now, and I don't expect it at launch, but it could be beneficial to "mix it up" occasionally rather than showing the same sequence every time without having to choose a specific one.

[japes]

Trivia in folders isn't working for me. I get the background music but just black screen. If I take a group out of the folders and put in the trivial slide root it works fine though.

That could be a few things. Can I talk you into posting a picture of your directory tree under the Trivia Slides directory? It could also be the slides.xml files, which we just a few days ago addressed. All of the old slides.xml files for the Q&A decks will need to be modified to have the following code:

Code:

<slides>
    <slide>
        <question format=".+_q\.jpg" />
        <clue1 format=".+_c1\.jpg" />
        <clue2 format=".+_c2\.jpg" />
        <clue3 format=".+_c3\.jpg" />
        <answer format=".+_a\.jpg" />
    </slide>
</slides>

Since I am testing I just have these...

V:\Cinema Vision\Trivia Slides\Guardians of the Galaxy
V:\Cinema Vision\Trivia Slides\Pixar

Pixar is just slides no Q & A

When I started I just added the Pixar slides to the Trivia Slides root folder and it worked fine. I did tried the same with the GotG slides and fine. But when they are in their own folders I just get black screen and music.

I did change the slides.xml for the GotG.

Edit just checked and the slide.xml for GotG was changed however the Pixar was still set to it's default with the ratings tag still in. Just in case that was causing an issue I cleared Pixar from the directory so just the GotG in it's own directory was in there and restarted and still nothing.

[japes]

With the ability to save various sequences, will it eventually be possible for the add-on to choose one of those sequences at random? Obviously not now, and I don't expect it at launch, but it could be beneficial to "mix it up" occasionally rather than showing the same sequence every time without having to choose a specific one.

Another great thing about saving various sequences is that once custom directories are added I can set up two sets...one for family movie night and another for when the kids are away. I hadn't thought of that until just now.

Another bonus.

[Skank]

Trivia in folders isn't working for me. I get the background music but just black screen. If I take a group out of the folders and put in the trivial slide root it works fine though.

That could be a few things. Can I talk you into posting a picture of your directory tree under the Trivia Slides directory? It could also be the slides.xml files, which we just a few days ago addressed. All of the old slides.xml files for the Q&A decks will need to be modified to have the following code:

Code:

<slides>
    <slide>
        <question format=".+_q\.jpg" />
        <clue1 format=".+_c1\.jpg" />
        <clue2 format=".+_c2\.jpg" />
        <clue3 format=".+_c3\.jpg" />
        <answer format=".+_a\.jpg" />
    </slide>
</slides>

Concerning the slides, what i thought of yesterday.
It would be cool to autoshow the slides of the movie that is playing
But i'll guess that's undoable or you will need to have tons of slides no?

That feature won't be there at launch, but metadata for every single slide is something that we have plans to do. That would allow you to filter your slideshow based on whatever metadata exists for the slides. You can add movie titles to the metadata and choose to only play slides with that title, or maybe even related films.

Wow you guys are taking this very seriously ! Big thumbs up!
I hope you all proceed with what you're planning to
Great job !

[Ragnarok]

With the ability to save various sequences, will it eventually be possible for the add-on to choose one of those sequences at random? Obviously not now, and I don't expect it at launch, but it could be beneficial to "mix it up" occasionally rather than showing the same sequence every time without having to choose a specific one.

I don't see why not, but that probably won't be there at launch - tons of stuff left to do and that would add to development time.

Since I am testing I just have these...

V:\Cinema Vision\Trivia Slides\Guardians of the Galaxy
V:\Cinema Vision\Trivia Slides\Pixar

Pixar is just slides no Q & A

When I started I just added the Pixar slides to the Trivia Slides root folder and it worked fine. I did tried the same with the GotG slides and fine. But when they are in their own folders I just get black screen and music.

I did change the slides.xml for the GotG.

Edit just checked and the slide.xml for GotG was changed however the Pixar was still set to it's default with the ratings tag still in. Just in case that was causing an issue I cleared Pixar from the directory so just the GotG in it's own directory was in there and restarted and still nothing.

So just today we decided to do away with the slides.xml requirement. Now the script has a default. If content creators want to get fancy, they can, but with the changes that we made today, there are a few things that need to be done.

For Guardians of the Galaxy, you need to move everything that's under the Stills directory one directory up so that it's in the same directory as all of the other Guardians of the Galaxy slides. Then you need to search through your entire trivia directory and delete any and all slides.xml files and CinemaVision.url files. Now follow the instructions at the end of this post.

Another great thing about saving various sequences is that once custom directories are added I can set up two sets...one for family movie night and another for when the kids are away. I hadn't thought of that until just now.

Another bonus.

You can absolutely do that. One for every genre if you want. It really doesn't matter.

Wow you guys are taking this very seriously ! Big thumbs up!
I hope you all proceed with what you're planning to
Great job !

We're trying! We tried to listen to all of the feedback from the community to come up with our required features. We also have a bunch of new ideas, some of which have been implemented, and some that will require some attention from Team Kodi to make a reality. As long as we have money to pay the developer for his services, we'll push forward with developing new features until this thing does your laundry.

Important Note: Version 0.0.23 is up on the GitHub. For those of you using this version, please uninstall previous versions of CinemaVision, delete the script.cinemavision folder from your userdata, and then install the new version. We've made some major changes to the database, so it requires a complete reinstall from scratch.

[miguelmolez]

Hi there!

I have recently had a play around with Cinema experience and have it working relatively well.

I have it also integrated with my Hue lighting system so that when the feature starts the light strips on my skirting board dim then turn off.

I would however like to add a further dimension to the experience. I have the Hue spotlights on the ceiling in my home cinema which I would like to be on while the trivia plays, then when the trivia ends the lights dim to off, but my lightstrip remains on until the feature starts. Would this be a possibility with the new CinemaVision Add-On?

Thanks

Miguel

[miguelmolez]

Also with Halloween approaching soon, some slides for horror film trivia would be cool. I may even compile my own and make it available.

[japes]

Since I am testing I just have these...

V:\Cinema Vision\Trivia Slides\Guardians of the Galaxy
V:\Cinema Vision\Trivia Slides\Pixar

Pixar is just slides no Q & A

When I started I just added the Pixar slides to the Trivia Slides root folder and it worked fine. I did tried the same with the GotG slides and fine. But when they are in their own folders I just get black screen and music.

I did change the slides.xml for the GotG.

Edit just checked and the slide.xml for GotG was changed however the Pixar was still set to it's default with the ratings tag still in. Just in case that was causing an issue I cleared Pixar from the directory so just the GotG in it's own directory was in there and restarted and still nothing.

So just today we decided to do away with the slides.xml requirement. Now the script has a default. If content creators want to get fancy, they can, but with the changes that we made today, there are a few things that need to be done.

For Guardians of the Galaxy, you need to move everything that's under the Stills directory one directory up so that it's in the same directory as all of the other Guardians of the Galaxy slides. Then you need to search through your entire trivia directory and delete any and all slides.xml files and CinemaVision.url files. Now follow the instructions at the end of this post.


Important Note: Version 0.0.23 is up on the GitHub. For those of you using this version, please uninstall previous versions of CinemaVision, delete the script.cinemavision folder from your userdata, and then install the new version. We've made some major changes to the database, so it requires a complete reinstall from scratch.

So without slides.xml will there someday be a way to set a rating and limit the slides by rating of the movie. I know it worked in CE and just curious if it's a long range plan?

EDIT...As to 0.0.23 ... Works great. After I reread the instructions above it worked perfectly. For anyone having issues make sure that after you uninstall that you browse into your userdata\addon_data folder and delete the cinevision folder from there. BIg issues if you forgot that last step.

[miguelmolez]

Apologies for not reading through the whole thread with regards to my comments earlier! I look forward to the release of this Add-On.

By the way, the website is cool and from what your saying as it grows there will be loads of cool features and downloads etc.

Thanks

M

[schumi2004]

@scott
In version 0.0.23 I still have the audio issue after trivia's has ended. Reading the changes i suspected it to be resolved?

[japes]

Okay, tested version 0.0.21 and found a few issues (not sure if they are still present in version 0.0.22 since i don't have access to it)


After trivia ended Kodi volume was set to it's minimum (Why?) needed to set it back to 0dB


I will try to fecth a decent debug log file later but just my 2 cents so far.

Edit:
Debug logfile; http://www.xbmclogs.com/ptbkgqcck

@scott
In version 0.0.23 I still have the audio issue after trivia's has ended. Reading the changes i suspected it to be resolved?

Actually this happened to me as well on latest version but I first wrongly assumed I had hit a key until I read this...I'll see if I can spot the issue and report back.

[GoofyJeff]

Yeah I had the audio issue too the first time I ran the script. Was kinda panicking until I realized what was going on. Changed it back to 0db and things have been running fairly smoothly since then.

[schumi2004]

Yeah I had the audio issue too the first time I ran the script. Was kinda panicking until I realized what was going on. Changed it back to 0db and things have been running fairly smoothly since then.

You need to set it back to 0db everytime you run cinemavision (when using slides)

Talking about slides, has something changed for slides.xml because my log file says bad slides.xml now.
I followed instructions mentioned earlier here from Scott so i guess i'm on the new format.

Is there btw any other method running CV instead of adding it to playlist and run sequence from CV ?

Should we supply movie information when i want to use this?

<onclick>RunScript(script.cinemavision,experience)</onclick>

[MidnightWatcher]

CinemaVision-Scott, how do I sign up to your site? I get the error code 2S160/4.

[Ragnarok]

Hi there!

I have recently had a play around with Cinema experience and have it working relatively well.

I have it also integrated with my Hue lighting system so that when the feature starts the light strips on my skirting board dim then turn off.

I would however like to add a further dimension to the experience. I have the Hue spotlights on the ceiling in my home cinema which I would like to be on while the trivia plays, then when the trivia ends the lights dim to off, but my lightstrip remains on until the feature starts. Would this be a possibility with the new CinemaVision Add-On?

Thanks

Miguel

Also with Halloween approaching soon, some slides for horror film trivia would be cool. I may even compile my own and make it available.

Hue is something we've got on the list when we get the core of the add-on working well. There's quite a few things we have yet to start on regarding home automation. As for Halloween slides and videos, I'm not sure we'll have time with everything that's going on to get those knocked out in time for the holiday. It is something I want to do, though.

So without slides.xml will there someday be a way to set a rating and limit the slides by rating of the movie. I know it worked in CE and just curious if it's a long range plan?

EDIT...As to 0.0.23 ... Works great. After I reread the instructions above it worked perfectly. For anyone having issues make sure that after you uninstall that you browse into your userdata\addon_data folder and delete the cinevision folder from there. BIg issues if you forgot that last step.

Yep! In fact, where Cinema Experience only allowed you to set the rating of an entire directory of slides, CinemaVision will allow for metadata for each individual slide in a folder via a metadata XML file. You'll eventually be able to filter content by any of the metadata that's added to the metadata XML files in your Trivia Slides Modules. Great to hear that it's working well so far!

Apologies for not reading through the whole thread with regards to my comments earlier! I look forward to the release of this Add-On.

By the way, the website is cool and from what your saying as it grows there will be loads of cool features and downloads etc.

Believe me, we do too! Hopefully, the site lives up to, and then exceeds, all of the expectations we have for it. We're really hoping the community steps up and builds all of the new content with us.

@scott
In version 0.0.23 I still have the audio issue after trivia's has ended. Reading the changes i suspected it to be resolved?

Actually this happened to me as well on latest version but I first wrongly assumed I had hit a key until I read this...I'll see if I can spot the issue and report back.

Yeah I had the audio issue too the first time I ran the script. Was kinda panicking until I realized what was going on. Changed it back to 0db and things have been running fairly smoothly since then.

We were able to replicate the issue when music was not playing during trivia, and that bug has been resolved in the new version. If it's still behaving that way after the next release, shoot us a log so that we can figure it out.

Talking about slides, has something changed for slides.xml because my log file says bad slides.xml now.
I followed instructions mentioned earlier here from Scott so i guess i'm on the new format.

Something has changed. We re-wrote the entire Trivia Slides piece of the add-on. Now, it doesn't require a slides.xml file to work at all. In fact, if you have a version later than 0.0.22, you need to remove any URL and XML files from inside of your trivia slides directories. We didn't entirely get rid of slides.xml, but unless you want to force the add-on to do some funky stuff with your trivia slides, you don't need it at all.

We wanted to simplify it so that folks who created content didn't have to worry about setting up the slides.xml file, and only had to create content and submit it for upload on the site. In doing this, we also increased the number of slides in a group of slides to 12 total. Now, we support up to 1 question, 10 clues, and 1 answer.

Is there btw any other method running CV instead of adding it to playlist and run sequence from CV ?

Should we supply movie information when i want to use this?

<onclick>RunScript(script.cinemavision,experience)</onclick>

Not currently. Once we're done with the core add-on, we'll put up a Context Menu add-on as well to help launch the sequence that way. As far as launching from the Movie Information screen, we'll need to wait for skinners to adopt CinemaVision. Right now, we have a few on board just waiting for a beta.

CinemaVision-Scott, how do I sign up to your site? I get the error code 2S160/4.

You should be good to go, now. I would have responded sooner, but I've been in meetings all day.