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muttnik.sputnik at gmail

Nov 23, 2009, 12:32 PM

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"Play With Trailers" as default in mythvideo

Hello,

Is there an option in MythVideo to enable "Play With Trailers" to be the
default action when selecting a video?

Thank you,

Brett


wilson.joe at gmail

Nov 24, 2009, 12:02 AM

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Re: "Play With Trailers" as default in mythvideo [In reply to]

setup > media settings > video settings > general settings
there is an option to enable random trailers before videos... check the
box...


muttnik.sputnik at gmail

Nov 24, 2009, 11:04 PM

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Re: "Play With Trailers" as default in mythvideo [In reply to]

Yes I have enabled that option. To see the trailers, however, I need to 1)
highlight my desired video; 2) press 'I' then select 'Play -> Play With
Trailers' from a popup menu. The trailers do not show when I simply
highlight the desired video and press 'P' in the video browser.

I was hoping to have the trailers display without executing an extra step
each time I watch a video.

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 03:02, Joe Wilson <wilson.joe [at] gmail> wrote:

> setup > media settings > video settings > general settings
> there is an option to enable random trailers before videos... check the
> box...
>
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wilson.joe at gmail

Nov 25, 2009, 12:29 PM

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Re: "Play With Trailers" as default in mythvideo [In reply to]

I haven't personally used the feature yet.. Im not sure on how it is suppose
to respond..
I know there is another option in the settings somewhere to set how many
trailers one
wants to watch before each video is played.. What would be nice is if we
could had
genre etc to the trailers so they could get associated with similiar videos
narrowing down
the randomness a bit.

i will poke around and see what I can figure out.. seems to me like it
should already be
playing the trailers before the video, and one shouldn't have to tell it
everytime..


robert.mcnamara at gmail

Nov 25, 2009, 12:50 PM

Post #5 of 6 (538 views)
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Re: "Play With Trailers" as default in mythvideo [In reply to]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Joe Wilson <wilson.joe [at] gmail> wrote:
> I haven't personally used the feature yet.. Im not sure on how it is suppose
> to respond..
> I know there is another option in the settings somewhere to set how many
> trailers one
> wants to watch before each video is played.. What would be nice is if we
> could had
> genre etc to the trailers so they could get associated with similiar videos
> narrowing down
> the randomness a bit.
>
> i will poke around and see what I can figure out.. seems to me like it
> should already be
> playing the trailers before the video, and one shouldn't have to tell it
> everytime..
>

The problem with the above approach is that once the option is on, if
you watch a video, it will *always* play "x" trailers. Always. So if
I just want to sit down and watch a quick web clip, I get to *always*
watch three, or four, or whatever trailers -- and I eventually end up
turning off the feature because as fun as it is, it's obnoxious to
always be compelled to watch random trailers every single time. If
you are like me and just want to watch a quick video sometimes, and
sometimes sit down and watch with trailers when you and the SO are
having movie night, both are available without having to
disable/re-enable any settings. So when writing this code, I made the
"executive decision" to preserve the normal playback behavior but keep
the "Watch With Trailers" an option.


Robert
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muttnik.sputnik at gmail

Nov 25, 2009, 1:30 PM

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Re: "Play With Trailers" as default in mythvideo [In reply to]

I agree that viewing trailers should be an automatic default action when the
option is selected. The "number of trailers" selection currently works
fine.

Genre correlation with the selected video would be a cool feature!

Thank you for the response.

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 15:29, Joe Wilson <wilson.joe [at] gmail> wrote:

> I haven't personally used the feature yet.. Im not sure on how it is
> suppose to respond..
> I know there is another option in the settings somewhere to set how many
> trailers one
> wants to watch before each video is played.. What would be nice is if we
> could had
> genre etc to the trailers so they could get associated with similiar videos
> narrowing down
> the randomness a bit.
>
> i will poke around and see what I can figure out.. seems to me like it
> should already be
> playing the trailers before the video, and one shouldn't have to tell it
> everytime..
>
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-users mailing list
> mythtv-users [at] mythtv
> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>
>

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