[Ragnarok]

The only thing that actually comes to mind, and this is probably just do to my slowish internet connection, is that with trailers, when each one starts, it pauses for like 1 second and then plays. The side effect being the pause symbol throwing itself on the screen and then disappearing, much like the busy symbol(which I suppressed using the line of code given here). Other than that, for my extremely normal use case, it works great.

We do plan to add an option to download trailers in the background, we just didn't get it in for the initial release. We do have code for skinners to use to suppress the busy dialog and pop-ups. Some currently use that code, but some don't. You might also be able to add it yourself to your skin.

Audio bumpers still not working for me : (

Literally everything else is! I have re-downloaded the audio files from your website, Scott. Log says "file unplayable" as per previous post. No idea why this is. When I manually select the file it plays flawlessly.

Can I talk you into posting a log after reproducing the issue with Audio Format Bumpers?

I am getting an error dialog in between each bumper:

Playlist
Can't find a next item to play.

All of the videos play as intended but this dialog interrupts the sequence.

Full log here: http://xbmclogs.com/p7caflu2v.

Errors like this show up in the log:

15:20:39 T:6572 ERROR: Playlist Player: skipping unplayable item: 2, path [C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\script.cinemavision\resources\videos\script.cinemavision.dummy_NEXT.mpeg]

Hi Warner, your not using DSPlayer are you? as far has I know it don't work with it I tried it and reported the problem but was told it needed to be solved aracnoz

wints is exactly right. The issue you're seeing is DSPlayer. We wrote CinemaVision for DVDPlayer, and will only add support for whatever player Kodi moves to in the future. We can't maintain several branches of the add-on, so unless the team behind DSPlayer modifies their player there's not much we can do.

Hi wints, thanks for the quick reply. Yes, i have installed CV, i use Kodi 15.2 on my laptop and Helix on my PI B 512. I'm not sure if my PI can handle the addon working smoothly. Anyway, I'd like to use it on my laptop. I have set the content path as described in the first post. I'd like to stream the trailers and I have downloaded some intro videos (DTS-HD and TRUEHD). As I wrote before I'd like only one of theese videos and about two or three trailers streamed when I start a movie, thats all. To be honest i'm a little confused with the sequence setup. It's like in japanese for me. Sorry for my english. Thanks!

The Pi 2 can handle CinemaVision but it does hiccup a bit on the slide transitions during trivia. If you see that behavior, you can just disable transitions. I'm currently putting together videos for different things, and sequences will be one of them. What it sounds like you want to do should be incredibly simple.

• Create a New Sequence using the Sequence Editor
  
• Add a Trailer Module, and edit it to show 2 or 3 trailers
  
• Add an Audio Bumpers Module
  
• Add a Feature Module
  
• Add a Command Module, and edit it to skip forward to the Video Bumper Module at the end if the feature queue is empty
  
• Copy the Trailer Module from earlier to this spot in the sequence
  
• Copy the Audio Bumpers Module from earlier to this spot in the sequence
  
• Copy the Feature Module from earlier to this spot in the sequence
  
• Add a Command Module, and edit it to skip backward to the copied Trailer Module if the feature queue is full
  
• Add a Video Bumper Module, and set the type to Theater Outro
  

You'll want to make sure to put your Audio Format Bumpers in the correct directory in %CVROOT%\Audio Format Bumpers.

CV 's not working with Pulsar? will it work in future?

CinemaVision relies too heavily on the data stored in the Kodi database, and won't currently work with any streaming features. We have that on the roadmap, but we're not even sure it's possible to support streaming features yet.

[kemuri]

OK, thank all of you so much for your help, it works great now.

[wints]

Yeah use the CV option in movie info to launch the movie

[MidnightWatcher]

Hi wints, thanks for the quick reply. Yes, i have installed CV, i use Kodi 15.2 on my laptop and Helix on my PI B 512. I'm not sure if my PI can handle the addon working smoothly. Anyway, I'd like to use it on my laptop. I have set the content path as described in the first post. I'd like to stream the trailers and I have downloaded some intro videos (DTS-HD and TRUEHD). As I wrote before I'd like only one of theese videos and about two or three trailers streamed when I start a movie, thats all. To be honest i'm a little confused with the sequence setup. It's like in japanese for me. Sorry for my english. Thanks!

The Pi 2 can handle CinemaVision but it does hiccup a bit on the slide transitions during trivia. If you see that behavior, you can just disable transitions.

I used to have issues with slide transitions on my RPi2 (at least on an earlier beta build of CV) but decided to then move my CinemaVision folder directly to the RPi2 SD card. That solved it for me and slides now transition perfectly (I use fade). Given that kemuri has an older and much slower Pi I'm not sure if moving the CinemaVision folder to the Pi's SD card will help much, but it's worth a try.

[Ragnarok]

OK, thank all of you so much for your help, it works great now.

Happy to help! Glad to hear you're up and running.

Yeah use the CV option in movie info to launch the movie

OR you could use the CinemaVision Launcher, which I prefer. Yeah that's a shameless plug, what of it?

I used to have issues with slide transitions on my RPi2 (at least on an earlier beta build of CV) but decided to then move my CinemaVision folder directly to the RPi2 SD card. That solved it for me and slides now transition perfectly (I use fade). Given that kemuri has an older and much slower Pi I'm not sure if moving the CinemaVision folder to the Pi's SD card will help much, but it's worth a try.

That's really good to know! I'll make sure we put that info in our Guides whenever they're ready.

[aptalca]

OR you could use the CinemaVision Launcher, which I prefer. Yeah that's a shameless plug, what of it?

Dude, I didn't know this existed. Only reason I held off on switching to this is because my skin doesn't yet support it.

With the context menu option, I can easily launch it. I'm glad you included the shameless plug :-)

[Ragnarok]

Dude, I didn't know this existed. Only reason I held off on switching to this is because my skin doesn't yet support it.

With the context menu option, I can easily launch it. I'm glad you included the shameless plug :-)

We figured skinners might be slow to adopt CinemaVision. It's basically just a button, but it's really all I use to launch the add-on myself!

[minscof]

Cinemavision is great. I use the advanced launcher with confluence skin. My sequence is very simple : one random audio bumper, one trailer , one countdown.

These 3 steps perform well, but then cinemavion fails to launch the movie

Here is the debug log http://xbmclogs.com/ptsowtne8. I use openelec V6 on a raspberry PI model B. I had the same problem with the previous version of openelec.

Thanks for your help.

[kemuri]

OK, here's my experience. On my laptop - with the setup described by Scott - everything works fine. Both trailer and audio bumper intro plays as it has to. Now rPi model B 512: same setup, CV folder path on SD card = only trailer, no audio bumper intro. Tried to change CV content path to smb location = same. No intro, only trailer. I have the files copied to correct folders, as i mentioned with my laptop works great. Any suggestions? Thank you!

Edit: It works now normally after i did a reboot on my Pi. Dont know what the trouble was.

[sl4ppy]

I installed and did the initial setup of directories, etc, but get the following error when I try to launch. I have uninstalled and re-installed CinemaVision several times. :/

Code:

05:28:14 T:10932  NOTICE: [- CinemaVision -] (API): Rating Systems:
05:28:14 T:10932  NOTICE: [- CinemaVision -] (API):   MPAA: [NR, G, PG, PG-13, R, NC-17]
05:28:14 T:10932  NOTICE: [- CinemaVision -] (API):   FSK: [18, 16, 12, 6, 0]
05:28:14 T:10932  NOTICE: [- CinemaVision -] (API):   DEJUS: [18 Anos, 16 Anos, 14 Anos, 12 Anos, 10 Anos, Livre]
05:28:14 T:10932  NOTICE: [- CinemaVision -] (API):   BBFC: [R18, 18, 15, 12, 12A, PG, U, Uc]
05:28:14 T:10932  NOTICE: [- CinemaVision -]: FIRST RUN
05:28:14 T:10932   ERROR: EXCEPTION Thrown (PythonToCppException) : -->Python callback/script returned the following error<--
                                             - NOTE: IGNORING THIS CAN LEAD TO MEMORY LEAKS!
                                            Error Type: <class 'xml.etree.ElementTree.ParseError'>
                                            Error Contents: no element found: line 1, column 0
                                            Traceback (most recent call last):
                                              File "C:\Users\<snip>\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\script.cinemavision\addon.py", line 18, in <module>
                                                player.begin()
                                              File "C:\Users\<snip>\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\script.cinemavision\lib\player.py", line 67, in begin
                                                e.start(seqPath)
                                              File "C:\Users\<snip>\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\script.cinemavision\lib\experience.py", line 886, in start
                                                return self._start(sequence_path)
                                              File "C:\Users\<snip>\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\script.cinemavision\lib\experience.py", line 896, in _start
                                                self.processor = cinemavision.sequenceprocessor.SequenceProcessor(sequence_path, content_path=cvutil.getContentPath())
                                              File "C:\Users\<snip>\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\script.cinemavision\lib\cinemavision\sequenceprocessor.py", line 1156, in __init__
                                                self.loadSequence(sequence_path)
                                              File "C:\Users\<snip>\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\script.cinemavision\lib\cinemavision\sequenceprocessor.py", line 1250, in loadSequence
                                                self.sequence = sequence.loadSequence(sequence_path)
                                              File "C:\Users\<snip>\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\script.cinemavision\lib\cinemavision\sequence.py", line 1047, in loadSequence
                                                return getItemsFromString(dstring)
                                              File "C:\Users\<snip>\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\script.cinemavision\lib\cinemavision\sequence.py", line 1039, in getItemsFromString
                                                return getItemsFromXMLString(dstring)
                                              File "C:\Users\<snip>\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\script.cinemavision\lib\cinemavision\sequence.py", line 1019, in getItemsFromXMLString
                                                e = ET.fromstring(dstring)
                                              File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Kodi\system\python\Lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 1301, in XML
                                                return parser.close()
                                              File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Kodi\system\python\Lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 1654, in close
                                                self._raiseerror(v)
                                              File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Kodi\system\python\Lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 1506, in _raiseerror
                                                raise err
                                            ParseError: no element found: line 1, column 0
                                            -->End of Python script error report<--

EDIT: I finally got it working. I had to create and save a new sequence with the sequence editor. The default one was invalid or something?

[NewMedia]

This is a great add on! I have not been able to touch my theater system and Kodi in a while (work) but good to see all these new developments happening. The custom modules are good and have been designed well. The skin I use has integrated CV so I have just set everything up and it works perfectly, except that the movie does not play after the sequence is finished, just returns back to the normal screen. I feel like I am missing the blatantly obvious here but not sure what exactly it is, but does anyone have an idea as to why it does not play automatically after the sequence is finished?

[wints]

Hi I had the same problem but was using emby for kodi addon and needed to do a fresh re-scrape of my data base don't know if it's something similar for you

[leejk]

Aeon MQ6 also doesn't show any pop-ups.

Hi, is there a setting in that skin to enable the pop up suppression? I still see the brief pop up in between loading movie trailers, and also the occasional culyrics pop up.

Thx

[dchabby]

I may have missed something simple but I installed the addon and it worked fine in demo mode but once I added the content path in nothing works other than playing 2 trailers.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Cinephile]

Audio bumpers still not working for me : (

Literally everything else is! I have re-downloaded the audio files from your website, Scott. Log says "file unplayable" as per previous post. No idea why this is. When I manually select the file it plays flawlessly.

Can I talk you into posting a log after reproducing the issue with Audio Format Bumpers?

You can find my log here: http://www.xbmclogs.com/p5h4drjc5

I think it is some sort of caching problem. If you have a look at the log you will find this line:

ERROR: Playlist Player: skipping unplayable item: 1, path [smb://NASDDB2A8/Multimedia/XBMC/Media/Cinema Vision/Audio Format Bumpers/DTS-HD Master Audio/DTS - SFX.m2ts]

Thing is, I don't even have this file in my setup anymore! I have downloaded the mp4 version of the same file off your website and replaced it in the DTS HD folder. But CV still assumes the old (corrupted) file needs to be played back. How do I get around this? Update Content Path in CV settings does not make a difference.

I had also tried to uninstall the add-on entirely. But to my surprise, when I downloaded the app again to set things up from scratch my old options were still there! I think I need to flush my cache somehow. I am on Openelec.