2009-02-20, 18:26
You probably know but I just wanted to say that by updating to the SVN version made it work for me
Thanks for the excellent plugin.
EDIT:
Actually, it didn't work as good as I expected
1) I think that the "video quality" selected in the plugin setting should work more like "preferred video quality". For instance, I prefer 1080p and so I have that option selected. But this doesn't list all the items available. Maybe the plugin wasn't able to get all movies in 1080p, maybe some movies don't even have 1080p trailers. It doesn't matter the reason, but if the plugin can't get a 1080p trailer, it should try to get the 720p version, if not, the 480p and so on... I prefer 1080p video quality, but if there's no way Apple Movie Trailers II can show that quality for a specific movie, I don't mind seeing in a lower quality, I just don't want to miss on any movie trailer.
2) Now, I had to actually use 720p quality cause 1080p videos are not playing... If I have "download and save" a .tbn and .m4v file is saved to the disk, but the video file is very small like 2Kb and if I tray to play again, the video won't play at all. It's not being downloaded. If I stream the videos, it will give an error: "Playlist playback aborted. Too many consecutive failed items". This only happens for 1080p trailers, 720p seems to be working just fine...
3) Is it possible to add an option to "download, save and stream" at the same time? I like the idea to download and save the trailers on the HDD so that when a friend comes over and I want to show him a trailer, I don't need to waste bandwidth in downloading it again. But it kinda sucks that the first time I get a trailer, I need to wait it finishes to download before start watching it... It could be nice to start downloading/buffering, then start playing and at the same time, save the file to the disk for later replaying.
4) There are situations, in the middle of a streaming trailer, where it exits the trailer and I have to start over... For instance, I'm viewing a trailer and in the middle it pauses and starts buffering the rest of the movie, if I press a key to rewind a little, it just exits the trailer.
5) I don't know where I read this and which plugin was it for whatever application but it was a nice idea... Which is, download the trailers in the background and whenever we want, we just click on a trailer and start watching it. No need to buffer, no need to download in that moment, cause it was already downloaded. This could have an option to only keep the last X trailers and then start deleting automatically the oldest ones.
Other than these issues, it works fine
Thanks for the excellent plugin.
EDIT:
Actually, it didn't work as good as I expected
1) I think that the "video quality" selected in the plugin setting should work more like "preferred video quality". For instance, I prefer 1080p and so I have that option selected. But this doesn't list all the items available. Maybe the plugin wasn't able to get all movies in 1080p, maybe some movies don't even have 1080p trailers. It doesn't matter the reason, but if the plugin can't get a 1080p trailer, it should try to get the 720p version, if not, the 480p and so on... I prefer 1080p video quality, but if there's no way Apple Movie Trailers II can show that quality for a specific movie, I don't mind seeing in a lower quality, I just don't want to miss on any movie trailer.
2) Now, I had to actually use 720p quality cause 1080p videos are not playing... If I have "download and save" a .tbn and .m4v file is saved to the disk, but the video file is very small like 2Kb and if I tray to play again, the video won't play at all. It's not being downloaded. If I stream the videos, it will give an error: "Playlist playback aborted. Too many consecutive failed items". This only happens for 1080p trailers, 720p seems to be working just fine...
3) Is it possible to add an option to "download, save and stream" at the same time? I like the idea to download and save the trailers on the HDD so that when a friend comes over and I want to show him a trailer, I don't need to waste bandwidth in downloading it again. But it kinda sucks that the first time I get a trailer, I need to wait it finishes to download before start watching it... It could be nice to start downloading/buffering, then start playing and at the same time, save the file to the disk for later replaying.
4) There are situations, in the middle of a streaming trailer, where it exits the trailer and I have to start over... For instance, I'm viewing a trailer and in the middle it pauses and starts buffering the rest of the movie, if I press a key to rewind a little, it just exits the trailer.
5) I don't know where I read this and which plugin was it for whatever application but it was a nice idea... Which is, download the trailers in the background and whenever we want, we just click on a trailer and start watching it. No need to buffer, no need to download in that moment, cause it was already downloaded. This could have an option to only keep the last X trailers and then start deleting automatically the oldest ones.
Other than these issues, it works fine