Custom Intro/Trailers before playing movie
I would like to have an option to enable custom intro or trailers before the actual movie is played…please see design tab.
I was hoping the “Local Trailers” request that was just completed would have enabled this. But it looks as though Sam cut it out of the final product. You have my very enthusiastic vote!!
Completely agree – I really hoped it was coming with the Local Trailers request. This is definitely top of my wish list (unless someone can come up with a plugin that correctly suggests the winning lotto numbers)
Ok, everyone turned off by custom intros, fear not… Find your favorite Movie Studio, Dolby, or THX movie intros here. http://www.demo-world.eu/trailers/ Did I mention, many of them are high definition with lossless audio??
I really hope this idea gets implemented. I've been racking my brain trying to find a way to make this work by (attempting) to modify other people’s scripts… With no luck. Ideally, for me I would like it to play 3 or so random trailers out of my collection. But random trailers for upcoming releases would be very cool too!
On a side note, if this idea does get implemented some how (fingers crossed), another nice option would be to have a Dolby/THX or “Your feature presentation” type intro play following the trailers (I think this would have to be a set filename, or possibly a shortcut placed in every folder as a playlist type file)
It would be very nice to have the trailers play at random. Allowing multiple trailers to be added to the trailers folder. 20+ trailers/intros in the folders, allowing for multiple trailer scenarios. You would never get bored watching the same trailers over, and over. Which is a limitation for the current tutorial in the MB forum.
One random custom trailer, 2 or 3 random movie trailers. Each of which (by Fatals design) can easily be turned on or off.
@Fatal,
Is there any way apple trailers could be utilized into this feature?? It would be cool if it picked random apple trailers and played them along with a custom intro.
This is definitely something I would like to see. Maybe there some way to link to the intro, with symbolic links or something. Anyway, I have a nice custom intro I would love to show off.
Just added my support. While at it, also please allow local trailers to be referenced and used in the xml (I cannot keep my trailers in a separate “Trailers” subfolder for each movie).
I agree, been a fan of trailers since I got into my HTPC. My problem is I use DVD video folder format so I can’t use asx playlists to get by. Count me in!
I too will throw my next wish onto this topic.. This is 1 piece from having a more “true Movie Theater experience” in my home.. thats what my end goal is with MB… probably thats a goal for many of us.
If we get this going i'd even like to see “genre-based” type trailers.. like when you go out to the movies, seeing a kids movie.. you wouldnt want your random trailers to be horror or something very adult, you'd ideally want “other kids movies”..
(the theaters near me usually do this as well.. but sometimes i've been surprised at how all the trailers really didnt “go with” the film i was about to see)
Just thought I'd add, on th MB forum someone has come up with an easy way to play as many random intros as you want using a simple Kixtart script. I've tried it, and it works perfectly.
this feature has my wish.
if this was implemented without the use of iTunes, it would have to include some method to auto-download newest trailers and delete old trailers… i honestly don’t want to have a huge collection of old trailers sitting there taking up space, and constantly going out to manually find/download new trailers would end up being a pain.
my “dream scenario” when i play a movie is that it first plays a couple random new(ish) trailers that match the genre of the movie i'm going to watch, and then plays my local custom home theater intro, then goes into the movie.
I just added my wish :D
if i get some free time I will try to write an app that can create asx playlists with Movie Genre" awareness by getting the movies, Genre from mymovies.xml, And try to compare with trailer genre I will to get The data from a source like TMDB In order to accomplish what Mrwebsmith posted above.
We don’t want kids trying to play “Toy Story” and get “The SAW” trailer first ;)
Have a great day guys.
You have my wish for this too. I'm with Xzener’s last comment, but I do see your point tempo.
I would certainly love to this implemented and really hope one of the devs takes ownership of this.
A nice addition to this and as stated earlier regarding the THX, DD, DTS, DTSHD and TrueHD intros, would be to have these always start directly after the trailers have finished and before the movie starts.
This would be a great feature. Would love to see the random playing of a user selected number of trailer’s before a movies start. Ideally, streams new HD trailers vs. downloaded trailers for owned movies.
Keeping in mind, some use external players (mpc-hc, here), if that makes any sort of difference.
Hi,
After browsing through this site: http://www.demo-world.eu/ I thought it would be cool to play a trailer according to the first Audio track of the movie As we already use mediainfo.
Play a DTS trailer before DTS movie or Dolby Digital trailer :D
Something like IBN but for video clips by mediainfo codec recognition.
That would be nice :D
this would be uber sweet!
I have a dream…..
click play movie, loads intro, curtains appear, music plays, ‘This home theatre supports’ ( with whatever logos below ), curtains open, screen zooms, old school 3,2,1 flash up….and cut! Movie plays…people smile :D
I might see if I can find a flash guru to do this….interest?
i think this request is starting to overlap with New Trailer Plugin Ideas
I agree with chadd… This request is for trailers to play before a movie. ie new releases, custom trailer, codec trailers. Not to be confused with downloadable HD trailers and the like. There was a plugin for that which is now obsolete.
I am with xzener on this, This request is for the ability to play Intro/trailer before a a movie, And if xzener would agree (I dont want to hijack a thread)to include my request to for a codec trailer.
As I see it we are talking about locally stored trailers.
Tempo
This might be slightly off-topic of adding built-in support to MB; but is certainly on-topic regarding playlists and intros/trailers. I've modified HD-Trailers.NET Downloader (http://www.codeplex.com/hdtrailersdler) to pull trailers into a hierarchy suitable for use with MB, complete with folder images (which the app already had) and mymovies.xml metadata file (mainly for the description, but also containing any tags from the HD-Trailers.net RSS feed). I've also written a second C# app that will create an .asx file containing:
The plan is to have this run once a day to regenerate the playlist for each movie, but I can’t seem to figure out the best way to get MB to handle the playlist. I've sifted through the countless posts about intros and trailers, but with no luck. So, the question is, is it possible to create an .asx in the same folder as the movie file (or an .asx for the “pre movie” stuff, the movie file, and an .asx for the “post movie” stuff) and have MB still display it as a single movie with all the glorious metadata and images and such? I've tried messing with the “treat multiple files…” setting, but to no avail. I'd be more than happy to share my app if I can get it to a working solution. Maybe better handling of .asx files would be a more doable feature for MB to add?
I add my support for this feature. Check out mypremovie.com and the images thereon. The tabs indicate what I would love to see included. It plays Trivia/Intros/Trailers/Movie. You can add music to play with Trivia,set location for each etc. Hope this gives some ideas.
Look something here will happen, but it needs a careful design.
In particular the following issues need to be addressed. And perhaps separate tickets opened
Is it the same for all Shows
Is it the same for all movies and different for tv shows
Does it look at the mediainfo and run a custom intro based on the format?
At the moment home videos and music clips are treated as movies, do we exclude them from custom intros (is it based on the length of a movie – 5 minute movie, no intro)
ISO intro/trailer will not be supported, its way too hard.
IMO, Fatals design seems as though it would work nicely. One folder to house upto like 2 or 3 intro’s. (For example: one custom, one codec, one movie preview) This wouldn’t even require a configurator option would it??
Here is another idea…
Have it to where you could have numerous “Custom Intro” folders. This could eleviate the problem of having, say a “DTS-HD Intro” playing with a DVD, which we all know is wrong. Have it play a “Dolby Digital” intro.
That setup might require a configurator option.
Having a couple “Custom Intro” folders would solve the problem of having intro’s play when not needed. IE; Music, Home Movie Clips
Okay, I haven’t been following this thread in a while so I'm just going to throw this out there…
Do I understand this whole thing correctly? Are y'all painstakingly trying to design and implement a system that will allow you to put back all the trailers that you went to all that trouble to rip out when you ripped your movie in the first place…?
[ebr ducks]
I know, I know, this will be the trailers and intros you want, but, still, struck me as funny : )
Great work Cheesegeezer. Here is my basic wish list:
Ability to play: Slides/Trivia,Trailers, Intros, Movie
For Slides/Trivia, Trailers & Intros: Ability to select alphabetically or randomly
For Slides/Trivia: Ability to play music with them alphabetically or randomly and select length of time to play.
Folders for Slides/Trivia, Music,Trailers, Intros, Movies
Note I retagged this as a plugin request, this functionality will be a plugin as opposed to core functionality. There is a fair amount of things that can go wrong so I would like to isolate this out of MB. Also this is not a feature that every user needs.
@Cheesegeezer Great work! you need to open a thread for your plugin, Were we will follow And swamp you with feature requests :D
Sam,
What’s the best way to go about setting up a topic for this feature using just my design. I don’t want to mess up the CT in any way, shape or form. So would appreciate your input.
cheers
