Feature Request: Trailers play before preroll

[mikewesten]

For local trailers pulled from a local directory. Request: Option to play 1 or more videos from a target directory intended for movie trailers, in random order, before the preroll loads. Or more practically, create option to add additional directory(s), and the option to playback 2 or more videos.

Then eventually more advanced rules for genre, tags, etc, if it's feasible and demand is high enough.

Thanks for forking this project. It's very nice to have a working plugin at last.

[RURon]

I would also like to encourage you to add more possibilities that lead into the direction of a plugin I used on XBMC, namely "Cinema Experience" where the idea was to mimic cinematic pre roll videos, trailers and advertisements. [https://kodi.wiki/view/Add-on:Cinema_Experience#Information_&_Setup](Link to CinemaExperience)

Personally I used it like this:

1. a configureable number of random advertisement spots fetched from a local directory
2. a single video (random pick) from a local folder that is a "coming attractions" video
3. a configureable number of random trailers fetched from either a local directory or better yet from your movie database or from all files within folders in a local directory that contains "-trailer" in filename - this could be filtered to only include trailers that match the final movie (eventually this could be set up as a couple of lists that allow various genre to belong to others so that a trailer of a crime movie could also be seen with a thriller movie
4. a single video (random pick) from a local folder that is an actual intro video (like what this plugin originally does)
5. a single video from a local folder that corresponds to the audio encoding of the movie (THX, AC3, Dolby, etc.)
6. a single video from a local folder that corresponds to the age rating of the movie
7. a single video (random pick) from a local folder for example against piracy or put your mobile to flight mode or whatever
8. play the f*cking movie! :-)

the trailers filtering could also include the age rating of the final movie so that only trailers suited to the audience of the final movie would be played