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I am now to the point where I would like to attach movie trailers if possible. I'm not sure what I need to do or where to get them. I'm sure this must be in the wiki somewhere, but it seems I am hopeless and finding it. If someone could outline the process or post a shortcut to the wiki section I would be much appreciative.
Thanks
ethan_9219
2009-06-02, 02:58
Getting Trailers:
http://www.davestrailerpage.co.uk/
hands-down the best site, IMO...
Whatever trailers you can't get from there you could search on youtube or other video sites, or even rip them from the DVD if you have it.
To get them working:
If you place the trailer in the same folder as the movie and name it <moviefilename>-trailer, XBMC will play it when you click on 'Trailer" from the Movie Info screen. If the movie was previously scanned into the library, you will need to refresh it for XBMC to find the new trailer.
Example:
If the movie file is Twister.avi then you would name it Twister-trailer.mov
If the movie file is Twister\VIDEO_TS.ifo then you would name it VIDEO_TS-trailer.mov
hikaricore
2009-06-02, 03:58
movie-trailer.mov will also work if you have each movie in it's own folder nice and proper. :p
ethan_9219
2009-06-02, 04:48
movie-trailer.mov will also work if you have each movie in it's own folder nice and proper. :p
I could never be sure if that worked or not...Thanks for that though, will rename my trailers.
hikaricore
2009-06-02, 05:12
I only figured it out due to having really long movie titles and being lazy as hell.
There's like one thread on this entire board where it's mentioned.
Thanks, let me try this out.
This all seems to work, and Daves trailer page is pretty good. Any other sites where I can download trailers from?
Is there any way to get it streaming down when you puch the trailer button?
bidossessi
2009-07-19, 16:25
provide the trailer's url in an nfo file
How? I made a .nfo file with the same name as the movie and put a youtube link in the file, but nothing hapend when i chose trailer in the information page for the movie. Shuld i write something else than just the link in the nfo file? I also tryed to ad moviename-trailer to the nfo files name but that didnt help
wstewart
2009-07-19, 19:28
Can any of the media managers grab the trailers from davestrailer page rather than having to download these manually?
Can any of the media managers grab the trailers from davestrailer page rather than having to download these manually?
Good question. I've been waiting for an automated way of grabbing trailers for some time now.
hobartgeorge
2009-08-10, 14:57
Hi all,
I've been poking around the forums a little trying to find a nice automated way to download trailers for all my movies and have them available when i open the movie information. Does anyone know if there is a script or something that achieves this?
Take A look at this, :
http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=50348
hobartgeorge
2009-08-11, 01:33
Maybe i'm doing something wrong but i'm running that tool and it's creating .nfo files fine but none of the nfo files have a reference to a trailer which i assumed is what i was trying to do?
hobartgeorge
2009-08-11, 13:10
Sorry, had a case of the stupid there, got the trailers downloading ok.
Is there anyway i can refresh all my movies without deleting my database? Just that i really don't want to reload all my tv episodes if it's not necessary because i'll loose all the 'watched' information.
set the content on the movie dir to none. answer yes. reset. rescan
I stuck 'darks' mod of Aeon on my system and trailers show up automagically, click down and there it is.
Would that not suffice?