2012-04-14, 06:09
(2012-04-14, 05:14)giftie Wrote:(2012-04-14, 04:15)cult Wrote: Thanks giftie, wow... that actually explains a lot. I always wondered how it pulled trailers, not sure why an .nfo file never occurred to me. Hmmm... well that definately presents a problem then - I have hundreds of trailers in one central directory with no .nfo files. I have been putting all in one directory because it was irritating in XBMC occasionally having the trailer of a movie play before the movie when you clicked play on a folder in file mode in Videos. Not sure what to do now..You can always turn off the MPAA/genre matching on trailers. Then you can use HD-Trailers.Net Downloader(with the proper setup) to download trailers with valid NFO files.
Quote:Hmm, question on the XBMC Movie Library option under Trailer Scraper, how would that work? Would it read off the video names that were in your library and try to match accordingly? I'm guessing if that was the case the trailer would need to be in the same folder as the movie - would it work if the trailer was in a subfolder (something like \Movie\Trailer\trailer.avi)?The Movie Library option pulls the trailer info from the database and uses the paths supplied by the XBMC.
Interesting - this made me curious to start digging around in the movie.xml file that's generated using the app that I use for my trailer downloads (Media Center Master). At the very bottom of the XML theres a tag for TrailerURL which is the URL to the YouTube trailer, and there's a LocalTrailer tag which contains the path location to the local trailer it downloads. If its possible, something you might want to consider implementing maybe an option to scan the XBMC library but to pull the trailer from this local path. This might be a good temporary alternative solution too until the devs fix the issues with the streaming videos that some of the others have been talking about. I'm not sure how easy all of this would be to implement, but if something like this possible it might be something to think about.
As always thanks giftie - if every other company in the world had this level of tech support the world would be a much happier place