Thank you Karellen, for continuing to be an excellent advisor! Some followup.
(2020-05-05, 21:38)Karellen Wrote: No [way to specify certain filename matches that would count as Extras even if they're not a subfodler named "Extras]
OK, that's clear. Perhaps there
should be with pattern matching in advancedsettings.xml. Of course that doesn't work well with trailers either (see below). And/or there could be a list of folder names that also count as "Extras" folders. (Such as "Extra" or "Featurettes" etc.)
FWIW, creating an "Extras" folder containing symlinks to the files up one level works, though doing that globally would be tedious.
(2020-05-05, 21:38)Karellen Wrote: Special Features offers a few more features over the Extras add-on but both are pretty much no longer maintained.
I thought that K18/Leila was supposed to introduce this support natively? If so, then how do you access this native support?
(2020-05-05, 21:38)Karellen Wrote: If you just want a simple list of extras you can watch, then use the basic Extras addon.
If you want to pretty up your Extras with metadata and images, then use Special Features.
Both are enabled. There is an item "Extras" in CM, but no "Special Features". I can access Special Features by opening it through the addons. Is that the only way to access it?
Incidentally, Special Features doesn't work at all for me. Nothing in library, and scanning attempt to scan throws "UnicodeEncodeError" exception:
xml:
Error Type: <type 'exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError'>
Error Contents: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2019' in position 121: ordinal not in range(128)
Comments?
(2020-05-05, 21:38)Karellen Wrote: Kodi looks for trailers and skins utilise the trailer file, so no need to hide it in the Extras folder. See... Trailers (wiki)
In that wiki link, it specifies an extact trailer name: "fn-trailer.ext". Elsewhere I had found you could specify a RegEx key with <trailermatching>. However that has never worked for me. For example I have this in advancedsettings.xml:
xml:
<trailermatching>
<regexp>(.*?)(trailer)(}|]|\))?(\.[^.]+)$</regexp>
</trailermatching>
That should matach this filename: "moviefilename[TRAILER-Theatrical Trailer].mp4". However attempting to play that trailer (even after a refresh) does
not play that local trailer, but rather the YouTube trailer. Why?
Then, here's a weird point of confusion. In the CM, there is both an item called "
Trailer" and one called "
Play Trailer" which both appear to do the same thing. [Note that
sometimes, only one is present, but cannot determine any rhyme or reason to that.] Any idea why there are two and why sometimes only one?
Lastly a quesiton/feature suggestion: Is there any way to show an indicaiton that there are extras and/or a local trailer present? If not, any chance it could be implemented? (I sort of assume that Kodi would have to make the info available to the skins, which would have to implement it in the skin. Correct?)
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