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I guess I didn’t realize where the trailers were being embedded into the app.
My initial hunch was to long press a movie to bring up the context menu and select “Play Trailer”. However doing this attempts trailer playback on Kodi server - not in the app.
I will look at where you have implemented this tomorrow. I will be curious if my YouTube trailers have the same issue as UlfSchmidt does. Mine I assume come from Ember.
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The trailer is visible in Movie details, on top the actors. Before, there was just a play button. Years back there already was an in-app trailer window, but I removed it due to problems with deprecated iOS framework functions which were used.
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Just tested. I like it a lot.
The movie trailer links I have do not seem to suffer the issue UlfSchmidt has.
One issue is where the trailer is age restricted. I ran into this issue with the trailer for the movie 8 Mile. I suspect there is nothing that can be done about that though.
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Thanks for the feedback. Can you share the URL to the 8-Mile video? Btw, great movie. I am watching it each few years.
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2024-01-09, 17:30
(This post was last modified: 2024-01-09, 17:46 by amasephy. Edited 1 time in total.)
Here's the 8 Mile trailer link.
plugin://plugin.video.youtube/?action=play_video&videoid=awv90meEQSs
For me it just says age restricted videos can't be viewed in embedded players. Maybe there is some possibility of logging in to Youtube with an embedded player but I really doubt that.
Yes, 8 Mile really is great. I recently rewatched it having forgotten most of it. I remember seeing it when it came out 20 years ago!
Also I thought of an idea, you may have even already thought of it. It’s really rather superficial but you know those banner messages used for things like subtitles and command executions? Those seem ripe for utilizing Dynamic Island on supported devices. Probably a hassle to implement while supporting legacy devices but figured I would at least pitch it. 🙂 I am sure at this point you are ready to just focus on your own ideas for the app.
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I thought region might make a difference. I’ll try using a VPN and see if it changes for me.
Seems ridiculous that you have to be 18 to view the trailer on YouTube but to see the entire movie in a theater you only need to be 17 for an R rated movie. 😵💫
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Interesting. Yes I think kids can view R rated movies with parent here. I don’t recall an age restriction for that. We have NC 17 for no one under 17 regardless but that is uncommon rating.
I’m pretty shocked at the stark difference in age requirement between our two countries. 🙂
I checked some other R rated movies and the trailers were viewable. Some others still were unviewable.
Either way this is a great addition to the app. Thank you for implementing it.
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I believe this is one of the things you requested feedback on with the latest TestFlight…
I’ve noticed the image cache seems to be getting reset all the time now. By that I mean when navigating to the movies tab the cover art is constantly having to be downloaded by the app. Previously you had to fight with the app to get it to refresh the artwork, now you cannot avoid it.
Anyone else noticing this? Happens with movies, tv and music artwork.