View Full Version : Trailers on Xbox
Sorry if Im creating new threads opposed to keeping the 1.03 going and going because it only makes sense to me to start a new one since that thread is just continuing on.
I have the newest SVN build as of yesterday on my Xbox with 1.03 and when I click on the trailer button it doesn't seem to launch the trailer. Of course I'm not running the minimized version of the skin unless thats the problem. This is my current file structure. I can play the skin if I use the view movie information button, but not from the Fanart view screen.
Beerfest/
Beefest-trailer.mov
Beerfest.avi
I even made sure to remove Beerfest and rescanned it to make sure it would load. It as well shows up as the newest movie.
Sorry if Im creating new threads opposed to keeping the 1.03 going and going because it only makes sense to me to start a new one since that thread is just continuing on.
it's far more easier to keep track of everyone's problems if they created separate threads, so i'm glad you did. :-)
I have the newest SVN build as of yesterday on my Xbox with 1.03 and when I click on the trailer button it doesn't seem to launch the trailer. Of course I'm not running the minimized version of the skin unless thats the problem. This is my current file structure. I can play the skin if I use the view movie information button, but not from the Fanart view screen.
looks like an issue with the xbmc for xbox build...
could you post a debuglog ?
Yeah I'll look into how to create one later today and send you one. I don't debug often so its kinda a figure out when I need to do it thing.
One other person reported they got it to work in the Transparency thread so it could be isolated to me, but who knows.
Yeah I'll look into how to create one later today and send you one. I don't debug often so its kinda a figure out when I need to do it thing.
One other person reported they got it to work in the Transparency thread so it could be isolated to me, but who knows.
settings > system > enable debuglog
restart xbmc...that's it.
next navigate to movies and click to trailer icon. that would be enough info for me.
flipped cracker
2009-08-05, 23:33
i have all my trailers in the individual movie folders. ie:
movies/Beerfest/
movies/Beerfest/Beerfest.avi
movies/Beerfest/Beerfest-trailer.avi
Yeah I'm the same way, but its odd that your trailers play and mine do not. Of course I only one that I've been trying to test, but I guess the debug log will tell when I get home.
flipped cracker
2009-08-07, 03:39
i just did a total update (deleted everything reinstalled/scanned/etc). i find that trailers that have been downloaded don't work, but urls that are in nfo files seem to work. my xbox isn't on the internet, but it tries to play them whereas downloaded local trailers only work from the movie information screen.
How did you get the URL's in the NFO's? I'm sorry if it sounds like a lame question.
nicoli_k
2009-08-11, 05:23
I can't find the post talking about the trailers on the xbox not playing the trailers minimized. This isn't the same as the original question, but the title still fits.
First off, my trailers work: both the scraped ones and local ones that the scraper can't get. However, the trailers do not play in the minimized screen like they're supposed to. I'm using the xbox with build r22078.
Start up XBMC > go to movies > select the trailer via the icon > hit "A" > allow movie to buffer > the trailer starts full screen > press "X" > trailer plays minimized and I can scroll through the other movies with the trailer still playing.
This proves that the xbox has the capability to play the trailer in a minimized window and still allow scrolling. I'm not sure what's causing the full screen to show by default, but at least there's hope for it to work like the other platforms.
Here's (http://pastebin.ca/1524600) the log since I'd feel bad for not posting one considering my signature.
flipped cracker
2009-08-11, 07:35
i don't remember when, but i actually gotten it to play in the minimized window by default. but it's gone now. i'm wondering if it was a previous version of transparency! or xbmc. i can't be sure now. i'll see if i can play around with what i have and get it to work again.
as for trailer urls, ember (http://www.embermm.com/) can do it.
Here's (http://pastebin.ca/1524600) the log since I'd feel bad for not posting one considering my signature.
had a look and this is the command used to launch the trailer:
21:15:25 M: 32567296 DEBUG: CApplication::OnMessage : Translating PlayMedia($INFO[ListItem.Trailer],1)
the ',1' at the end, means it has to start the movie minimized,
and it doesn't produce any errors in the log.
since it's working flawlessly on other platforms, it must be some weird xbox specific thing.
there's an advanced setting, that will tell xbmc to play all movies minimized. if any xbox user want to troubleshoot this issue, you might to try if it works at all:
<fullscreenonmoviestart>false</fullscreenonmoviestart>
nicoli_k
2009-08-11, 17:28
no soup: http://pastebin.com/m27a60249
Looks like it is an Xbox thing and not a Transparency! thing. You're giving it the right commands, but it's not responding to it. Even using the AdvancedSetting doesn't get it to start videos minimized -- trailers or regular movies.
Thanks for looking into it though.
I personally need to readdress my problem with trailers not playing at all. I will get a debug error out soon since I'm the one complaining and all. ;)
Thanks for the heads up on ember doing the URL scraping. I wasn't aware of that.
Ok,
I gave the debug log a try. I tried running "12 Rounds" trailer via the skin button first and it failed then I ran the same trailer from within the "Movie information" screen and it played fine.
http://pastebin.com/m3e15c3df
I checked my release and its the newest from the Tech Release site unless somebody is going to tell me that I'm behind. If so please point me in the correct direction. ;)
Ok I found out that r22118 is available on "xbmc nightly builds"
I just don't know if its required or not because I'm running 21142.
nicoli_k
2009-08-12, 08:03
google "xbmc nightly builds" and get a newer xbox version from there (should be top result). that may not solve everything, but it's a good start. Also, the skin requires a newer-than-9.04 version of XBMC to run correctly.
I know that trailers are working for me. My structure is set up G:\Movies\300.avi the trailer is G:\Movies\300-trailer.mp4
I don't think you've got to have every movie in a root directory like I do, but make sure the name of the movie and trailer are the exact same except for -trailer.
Also make sure that you don't have any spaces in between the movie name and the word trailer or else when you scan for new content it will think it's a new movie. "300 - trailer.avi" will be scanned as a new movie. "300-trailer.avi" will not be scanned as a new movie. Make sure you Refresh movie information if you've scanned without having the correct names. Additionally, the newer imdb scraper also picks up more trailers than it used to, but sometimes you'll have to have a trailer stored locally to get it to work.
Here's (http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=53841) another thread showing that changes have been made since the latest t3ch.
google "xbmc nightly builds" and get a newer xbox version from there (should be top result). that may not solve everything, but it's a good start.
I know that trailers are working for me. My structure is set up G:\Movies\300.avi the trailer is G:\Movies\300-trailer.mp4
I don't think you've got to have every movie in a root directory like I do, but make sure the name is the same.
Here's (http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=53841) another thread showing that changes have been made since the latest t3ch.
May I ask what build your running so I can at least compare?
nicoli_k
2009-08-12, 08:21
May I ask what build your running so I can at least compare?
I've got r22078 right now, but will be upgrading to at least r22103 tonight since there's some tweaking done to the DVDplayer since my last update. at the moment, that's the latest build with changes for the xbox. r22118 is just incremental.
Yeah thanks. I'll give it an update tomarrow since I appear to be a bit behind. Good lord I thought my regular haunt was the newest and well I was wrong.
Welp added the newest release I could find I believe its 22118 and the trailers still do not play when the button on the skin is pushed. I'm running it on an xbox and the trailers are .mov files. They play from within the more information section. So if anybody wants to take a look at that pastebin file I posted up above and throw me a hand I'd be greatful.
http://xbmc.org/forum/showpost.php?p=385671&postcount=15
I don't hear any audio and there is no indication of video playing.
Now these trailers I'm trying to run have been on the Xbox locally and on the NAS. I'm going to try and see if I make any difference streaming them via URL off the net tonight.
nicoli_k
2009-08-13, 03:15
That is bizarre. I'm running the same build and can play trailers just fine locally.
Here's what I did. I set up my folder structure like G:\Movies\12 Rounds and I set the content of 12 Rounds folder to Movies and I have two files in it "12 Rounds-trailer.mov" and "12 Rounds.avi"
The button works for me - look (http://pastebin.com/m4cbadae1).
Make sure the name is exactly the same even capitalization, except add "-trailer" to the end.
ahh, I notice the name of the file is: 12 Rounds-cd1.avi.
check out this discussion. (http://www.xbmc.org/forum/showpost.php?p=212555&postcount=51)
name the trailer "12 Rounds-cd1-trailer.mov" and see if that works.
I'm all confused as heck too.
I did a few more just for the sake of trying
http://pastebin.com/m73b02a47 With Equilibrium as one file
http://pastebin.com/d401d3820 with Beerfest
Everything will play normally, but not when I try the skin button.
nicoli_k
2009-08-13, 08:45
ok, two things.
1. Your skin's folder is "Transparency!1.0" instead of the default "Transparency!"
2. You haven't tried to upgrade to a newer build of XBMC.
more ideas:
I noticed the lines
msg: File not found: 'Volume_1/Videos/Movie/Equilibrium/Equilibrium-trailer.mov,1'
msg: File not found: 'F:\videos\Beerfest\Beerfest-trailer.avi,1'
Make sure that those are the names and location of your trailers. You could try going to Movie information and hittin Refresh to re-scrape the location.
Try starting XBMC without scanning for new content at startup. Also try to disable the "recently added" script. In my working setup, I don't have either of those options enabled. It may not be the cause, but it's a difference that I noticed between our set-ups.
Thanks I'll give them a try. I only named it Transparency1.0 so I could keep up with the version, but if that's a cause Hell I'll change it up tomorrow.
As for the refreshing of the Database been there, as well I used MIP to make sure that the NFO is up to date.
Thanks for your help and I'll give it a looksee again in the morning.
sorry to add an irrelevant post to this thread but how do you get trailers in the first place? Do you have to enable a certain script in order to download trailers?
im also on xbox and using a nightly build (although an older one at that)
nicoli_k
2009-08-13, 22:16
You don't need anything extra, the XBMC scraper can pull the trailer off of imdb.com for you. Sometimes it gets it wrong, so I use youtube and get the trailer. Just name it movie-trailer.extension where "movie" is exactly the name of the movie you want (for example 300-trailer.mp4 if your movie is 300.avi). Then refresh information and it'll pull your downloaded trailer.
If your SVN build is too old, try updating it to something more recent. I've notice the more recent ones pull more trailers than the older ones do.
Check out this (http://www.xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=54652) for more info.
nicoli: i appreicate your reply and for not flaming on me for asking this question...big props again for shining some light into my xbmc world.
I don't mind the question in this thread at all. As long as you get your well needed help Its all well and good. ;)
I'll keep tinkering with my problem. I have to rebuild my NAS tonight because I'm upgrading the drives to something larger and will recheck some stuff.
I'm just hoping its skin related, but nothing makes since since it plays fine on my PC version and your Xbox.
nicoli_k
2009-08-13, 23:41
@kizer: well having the folder named "Transparency!1.0" does mess with my home screen buttons, but it still allows me to play trailers off of the hard drive or from imdb. So that's likely not the main issue.
Have you tried to re-download the skin and install it again? Maybe during the quick revisions from 1.0 to 1.03 you may have missed something or didn't overwrite everything. You could try to do the patch for 1.03 (http://ronie.intodarkness.nl/Transparency!_update-v1.03.zip) again.
It'd be less of a pain than trying to rescan the database, that's for sure. I see he's got an xbox friendly version (http://xbmc-xbox-skins.googlecode.com/files/Transparency%21%20v1.03.rar) of 1.03 now.
Ok,
I gave the debug log a try. I tried running "12 Rounds" trailer via the skin button first and it failed then I ran the same trailer from within the "Movie information" screen and it played fine.
http://pastebin.com/m3e15c3df
I checked my release and its the newest from the Tech Release site unless somebody is going to tell me that I'm behind. If so please point me in the correct direction. ;)
this looks like a bug to me, it doesn't strip the ',1' from the filename when it tries to open the trailer:
21:05:52 M: 18522112 DEBUG: CFileSMB::Open - opened Volume_1/Videos/Movie/12 Rounds/12 Rounds-trailer.mov,1, fd=-1
#
21:05:52 M: 18522112 INFO: FileSmb->Open: Unable to open file : 'smb://DLINK-54CF81/Volume_1/Videos/Movie/12%20Rounds/12%20Rounds-trailer.mov%2C1'
#
unix_err:'2' nt_err : 'c0000034' error : 'NT_STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND'
#
21:05:52 M: 18522112 DEBUG: msg: File not found: 'Volume_1/Videos/Movie/12 Rounds/12 Rounds-trailer.mov,1'
#
21:05:52 M: 18542592 DEBUG: msg: Failed to open smb://DLINK-54CF81/Volume_1/Videos/Movie/12 Rounds/12 Rounds-trailer.mov,1.
A bug I can fix or you can fix? Or is this XBMC SVN related?
A bug I can fix or you can fix? Or is this XBMC SVN related?
as far as i can tell, it's xbmc for xbox related.
darknior
2009-09-02, 23:59
Is it possible to have on xbox the TRAILER on the FANART view and not just in the film informations ? :(
Thanks
Is it possible to have on xbox the TRAILER on the FANART view and not just in the film informations ? :(
Thanks
The icon for a trailer shows up on FANART view in Transperancy! on an XBOX, if you properly name your trailer as follows and do a "refresh" under Movie Information:
moviename.ext
moviename-trailer.ext
I had my trailers working fine as an icon would show up and when selected it would play the trailer in full screen mode, not a partial window on the screen. But from what I have noticed, prior to the XBOX nightly build (the version that allows media flagging) that I was using before Transperancy! v2.00 I updated to another nightly build and now the trailer doesnt play, despite the icon being there.
Im going to revert back to the nighly build I used before to see if it makes a difference and will post my results on here later tonight.
darknior
2009-09-03, 09:02
Ok, because i have the last nightly built too, and it dosn"t work :(
For my part i don't put the TRAILER on the HDD, i use the ONLINE trailer with the scrapper :D
Tell me if you get a solution for a recent built...
Bye
Thanks