[bigbully]

I am happy to report that the CV actions to toggle "Adjust Display Refresh Rate" On (On Start / Stop) and Off are working perfectly! The first item in the sequence is an action to turn it "Off". All slides, video bumpers and trailers then play at 60 Hz. Once that portion of the sequence is completed, a CV action to enable "Adjust Display Refresh Rate" to "On Start / Stop" then forces the main feature to 1080/24p. Voila. After some testing I noticed that I had to go into KODI's settings and enable it there first before playing the CV sequence. Evidently KODI didn't like the CV action to turn it Off when it was already off -- this caused the sequence to crash. But now everything is a-ok. Once the Rapier skin refreshes with the new release that will suppress the busy dialog when CV is running I'll be all set. CinemaVision. Best. Add on. Ever!

I'm using the previously posted cvactions for refresh rate stop/start and I'm having a problem with the refresh rate kicking back on prematurely before it reaches the cvaction in the sequence....

I've added a cvaction before the trivia intro and my display stays at 60Hz till it reaches a videobumper segment I added to the sequence. I've added a commercials intro and a commercials section. It stays at 60Hz for the Commercials Intro portion, but once it reaches the Commercials the display refreshes to 24Hz despite no cvaction in the sequence.

I'll see if I can get a log up tomorrow. It's late.

[MidnightWatcher]

I'm using the previously posted cvactions for refresh rate stop/start and I'm having a problem with the refresh rate kicking back on prematurely before it reaches the cvaction in the sequence....

I've added a cvaction before the trivia intro and my display stays at 60Hz till it reaches a videobumper segment I added to the sequence. I've added a commercials intro and a commercials section. It stays at 60Hz for the Commercials Intro portion, but once it reaches the Commercials the display refreshes to 24Hz despite no cvaction in the sequence.

I'll see if I can get a log up tomorrow. It's late.

Hmmm, are you sure that you're using the correct IP address for your setup so that the refresh rate sync is actually being turned off?

[japes]

Can someone tell me why you would have trailers stored on your HD? I don't get it. It kind of doesn't make sense to me. The way I see it, those trailers would get "old" fast wouldn't they? They would kind of be outdated pretty quickly....not to mention the storage space that it takes to store them. Maybe I should share how I have my system set up and what I think the idea is behind it.

I have a NAS that stores my movies that I rip. After I watch the ripped movie, I delete them if it isn't worthy of watching again some other time. As time goes by, and I cant keep up with watching what I have ripped, my library grows. When I find the time to watch more movies, I utilize CV to give me the theater experience. But sometimes the movie that I finally decide to watch (cause its been in my library for a while) is maybe a few years old. Why would I want to watch trailers that are a few years old. Wouldn't you want to see movie trailers that are current and movies that are coming out so you could add them to your library to watch at a later time. This process would snowball and your library would grow but you would have a wide range of movie genres that would satisfy what ever you're in the mood for.

It seems that streaming movies with current releases would give anyone the best experience. The kids love to watch the new trailers and say "we have to see that". They wouldn't be as excited if they already watched a movie. You don't get the same experience when you're about to sit down to watch a movie that you may have recently rented/ripped and then watch a trailer for something like "Cars" or "The Incredibles". That's yesterdays news. I want to see a trailer for something that will be out this Christmas or during the upcoming summer.

The only reason why you would want trailers stored on your system is if you don't have a broadband connection to stream the new releases. That would be the only reason that I could think of....but come on, who doesn't have broadband anymore!

If I understand it correctly, CV will only stream genre specific trailers if you specify it that way. So you still get age appropriate trailers when watching a film during family movie night.

Bill

1. I have a directory of movies that I have on my system that I haven't seen yet. Like you, my library has grown and sometimes I forget about some of the movies and when the trailer comes up I remember and decide to watch it next.

2. I don't like having lots of disk hanging around (or more correctly...my wife doesn't like it) so I rip all my moves to my 12 TB NAS server with makeMKV and only delete movies that I know I will never...ever...watch again...storage is not that expensive.

3. Everyone is different and they have different opinions...For instance one thing I "Don't get" is people taking the time to rip movies to their computer to watch once and then delete...to me I'd just watch it off the disk. But to each his own.

4. I have two trailer sections set up on my CV...the first is for movies I have that I haven't seen...I delete the trailer after I watch the movie. And the second is streamed from upcoming new movies. "Now Playing" is for what I have that I have yet to watch and "Coming Soon/To Theaters/or In Theaters Now" bumpers are for the new stuff.

Hope that gives you some insight to the way I do it. That's the great thing about Kodi and CV...It will work for about anyone's idea of "a great experience"

[billroden]

I like your 4th bullet point. That's a cool idea. I knew there was a reason for the local trailers I just couldn't visualize it. Where do you get the trailers from? Is there an automated process to retrieve the trailers? Right now I have to click on the trailer icon in the info section of the movie and it gets it from the internet but it's not downloaded. Are you manually downloading them and putting them in a directory? If so...that's probably not worth the time.

Bill

[Eisi2005]

How let you currently ATMOS Trailer recognize for movies with Atmos soundtrack? Could we work here with tags? The CinemaVision watch a movie if a tag is set, if not the normal sound is detected in the case of Atmos TrueHD?

[Cinephile]

I download my trailers in DTS HD: MA rather than crappy stereo mixes that you can find on YouTube.

Makes a world of difference and is well worth the investment.

http://www.movie-list.com/forum/ is king in that regard. You'll have to pay a small fee to access the good stuff though. Some members have ties to movie studios who will share uncompressed trailer files with them. Other members re-encode their own lossless trailers from the source material. It's amazing.

[bigbully]

I'm using the previously posted cvactions for refresh rate stop/start and I'm having a problem with the refresh rate kicking back on prematurely before it reaches the cvaction in the sequence....

I've added a cvaction before the trivia intro and my display stays at 60Hz till it reaches a videobumper segment I added to the sequence. I've added a commercials intro and a commercials section. It stays at 60Hz for the Commercials Intro portion, but once it reaches the Commercials the display refreshes to 24Hz despite no cvaction in the sequence.

I'll see if I can get a log up tomorrow. It's late.

Hmmm, are you sure that you're using the correct IP address for your setup so that the refresh rate sync is actually being turned off?

The cvaction files and video bumpers are located locally on my mac which Kodi says is IP 10.0.1.20, but the feature movies are on my NAS with IP 10.0.1.26. Which should I be using? I currently have the cvaction files set to the mac IP.

Here's my latest log kodi.log

[marhutchy]

A question for all: I don't have a NAS, but to those who have, do you buy 2 NAS where one's for back-up of the other?

[schumi2004]

A question for all: I don't have a NAS, but to those who have, do you buy 2 NAS where one's for back-up of the other?

Doesn't have anything to do with topic subject, next

But to answer your question. The decision to buy 2 or 1 NAS depends completely on your needs

[billroden]

A question for all: I don't have a NAS, but to those who have, do you buy 2 NAS where one's for back-up of the other?

You could do that but I don't think that gives you the backup protection that you need. I made a big mistake years ago when I backed up my kids baby photos to what was then the way to back things up (at least that was what I thought was the answer). I used the MyBook detatched HD. Had all the kids baby photos backed up to it and I wiped out my computer because I wanted to do a full reinstall of the op system. Everything worked fine until the HD crapped out on me. My wife was horrified by the thought of losing ALL the baby photos. It cost $1000 to retrieve the information on the HD. I paid a company that specialized in that kind of stuff and they went in and pulled off the photos bit by bit from the HD. I vowed that that will never happen again.

I purchased a NAS but thats only the first level of backup that I use for that "precious" stuff. I also use a cloud service to automatically back up what ever directory I specify. So all the photos that we take, the home videos and stuff that cant be replaced are backed up to multiple places. Some to the cloud, some to the NAS and some to other computers. As for the movie collection, I don't really bother backing that up. If I lose them, its not the end of the world like losing that other stuff.

Bill

[MidnightWatcher]

The cvaction files and video bumpers are located locally on my mac which Kodi says is IP 10.0.1.20, but the feature movies are on my NAS with IP 10.0.1.26. Which should I be using? I currently have the cvaction files set to the mac IP.

Here's my latest log kodi.log

What IP address is identified on the KODI info screen? That's the one you'll need to use for the cvaction files.

[Ragnarok]

For some reason it works now! Maybe because I restarted Kodi?

Anyhow it works like a charm and also the Homeseer integration works great!

Thank you for this great addon

Good to hear it's working! You're very welcome.

How let you currently ATMOS Trailer recognize for movies with Atmos soundtrack? Could we work here with tags? The CinemaVision watch a movie if a tag is set, if not the normal sound is detected in the case of Atmos TrueHD?

With the version of FFmpeg in Kodi as of 15 (Isengard), only bitstreaming supports Atmos. Once a version of FFmpeg that natively supports new formats like Atmos, DTS:X and Auro 3D is added into Kodi, we'll write in support for detection. We do have plans (after the first release) to add in support for filename tagging so that you can manually do this.

I download my trailers in DTS HD: MA rather than crappy stereo mixes that you can find on YouTube.

Makes a world of difference and is well worth the investment.

http://www.movie-list.com/forum/ is king in that regard. You'll have to pay a small fee to access the good stuff though. Some members have ties to movie studios who will share uncompressed trailer files with them. Other members re-encode their own lossless trailers from the source material. It's amazing.

Thanks for this, I'm checking it out now.

A question for all: I don't have a NAS, but to those who have, do you buy 2 NAS where one's for back-up of the other?

I use a multi-disk NAS that's configured to be fault tolerant, and it also backs specific data up to a cloud service. There's not really a reason to buy several different NAS appliances, unless you're just flat running out of storage and have capped out the one you have.

[bigbully]

The cvaction files and video bumpers are located locally on my mac which Kodi says is IP 10.0.1.20, but the feature movies are on my NAS with IP 10.0.1.26. Which should I be using? I currently have the cvaction files set to the mac IP.

Here's my latest log kodi.log

What IP address is identified on the KODI info screen? That's the one you'll need to use for the cvaction files.

Kodi says IP 10.0.1.20 and that's what I have in the cvaction files.

[marhutchy]

All helpful responses guys... thanks!

[leejk]

Hello,

Well tonight I ran across a problem that has also plagued the ESPN3 addon. It's when a video stream is encountered that it can't play, and KODI will popup a message saying something like SMIL URL blank. I ran into it during the trailers segment. I couldn't gracefully dismiss the error, and so got backed out of the whole sequence, and had to start over watching the movie. If possible, I think CV needs to be able to detect these types of video streams and skip them. Also, I'm not really sure what these errors mean; is it protected content, a different format that what KODI can, or what?

Thx