Trailers
Trailers is a plugin which helps users play movie and tvshow trailers from all media plugins available in MediaPortal.
It searches local trailers and online sources, it also has the capability to stream trailers with the help of the OnlineVideos plugin.
Plugins Supported
- MovingPictures
- My Films
- My Videos
- MP-TVSeries
- ShowTimes
- Trakt
Trailer Providers
- Local Trailers
- TMDb (Trailers from themoviedb.org)
- Manual Search (via OnlineVideos v2.3.1+ plugin)
NB: Always ensure your OnlineVideos plugin YouTube site is updated regularly to ensure downloads continue to work.
Skinners can add support to their skin by adding a trailers button in the respective plugin windows, see here for more information. Until there is official skin support for the skin that you use, you can grab updated skin files from the main forum thread here.
If you need help configuration the plugin, don't hestitate to ask a question in the forum.
================
* Fixed trailer download not working due to changes in OnlineVideos YouTube site - further work may be required as it's unclear whether this is a bug or change of behaviour;
* Compatibility with MyFilms v6.1.2+.
v1.2.2 [2016-01-16]
================
* Added support for Trailers skin button in new Trakt windows (Anticipated, Credits, BoxOffice).
* Added check to the trailer auto-downloader if the corresponding plugin is enabled in settings but not installed.
* Allow trailer search for My Videos plugin when there is no local file reference.
* Updated translations from Transifex.
v1.2.1 [2015-04-11]
================
* Fixed trailers skin button not working in Trakt windows.
* Updated translations from Transifex.
v1.2.0 [2015-03-27]
================
* Support for OnlineVideos v2.0, this is the minimum requirement now for Trailer streaming and download.
* Fixed plugin not operating correctly when OnlineVideos is not installed.
* Fixed error log message about translation when invoking custom Trailers dialog.
* Fixed hard-coded 'Menu' label to read 'Trailers' in Trailers dialog.
* Added the current media title to the Trailers dialog heading.
* Added support 426x240 resolution trailers when LQ is preferred or when no HD/HQ trailers are available.
* Fixed a few translations being incorrect or not mapped internally.
* Updated translations from Transifex.
v1.1.5 [2014-05-03]
================
* Added a setting to re-show the menu after trailer playback if there is more than a single local/online trailer available. Defaults to off.
* Added a custom dialog for trailer selection. Skinner can optionally add 'Trailers.Selection.Menu.xml' (ID 11898) to show a custom dialog. See skin designers guide for details. If custom skin file does not exist then it will use the standard dialog menu.
* Added a simple cache for online requests for trailers (currently only applicable to the TMDb provider). Default is set to 60mins and can be changed from advanced settings in Extensions GUI.
* Updated translations from Transifex.
v1.1.4 [2014-04-30]
================
* Added support for Trailers in your preferred language with options to fallback to English and/or always get English trailers in addition.
* Added OnlineVideos extension to the installer package. Pre-requiste for online trailer streaming and manual searches.
* Updated translations from Transifex.
v1.1.3 [2014-04-27]
================
* Redesigned configuration dialog.
* Skip GUI selection menu regardless of Auto-Play setting if there is only a single menu item to be displayed.
* Added Extensions plugin to package. Allows user to upgrade and configure settings from GUI.
* Updated translations from Transifex.
v1.1.2 [2014-04-14]
================
* Fixed Trailers menu not showing when AutoPlay is enabled under some circumstances.
* Fixed settings changed from MPEI Settings GUI not being recognized immediately. Will now re-load settings without needing to restart MediaPortal.
* Updated translations from Transifex.
v1.1.1 [2014-04-13]
================
* Added support for TV Show, Season and Episode trailers.
** Skinners can now add the trailer button to MP-TVSeries Show, Season and Episode levels as well as all Trakt Show, Season and Episode Windows.
** Settings added to change the manual search strings on YouTube.
* Updated translations from Transifex.
v1.0.7 [2014-01-08]
================
* Fixed a possible crash when an auto-download scan occurs and any movies in your library have a null Title, Year or IMDb ID.
* Fixed movies repeating download / search of trailers during Auto-Download scan if the movie had no IMDb [MovingPictures].
* Updated translations from Transifex.
v1.0.6 [2014-01-03]
================
* Added support to auto download trailers from enabled plugin libraries. See settings to enable this feature for your respective plugin.
* Added support for trailers button in the Trakt plugin, movie windows only.
* Updated translations from Transifex.
v1.0.5 [2013-12-07]
================
* Added support for trailers in the ShowTimes plugin, skinners can add a trailer button to either the details view, main movie list or both.
* Added support to have more than one trailer button in a plugin window e.g. MovingPictures and Showtimes have different views but only one window, skinners can use either button id '11899' or '11900' to invoke trailers. This is required for skins that locate buttons differently based on the view and need proper navigation.
* For new installs, the plugin will read in the trailer directory from ShowTimes and insert it into the list of dedicated trailer directories. This can be useful for people that auto download trailers from ShowTimes. If you're an existing user and think this will be useful then you can manually add your showtimes trailer directory in the Trailers configuration.
* Added GUI Settings via MPEI Extensions plugin. Not all settings are exposed in GUI so users may still need to visit the configuration e.g. add a new dedicated directory or change search patterns.
* Updated translations from Transifex.
v1.0.4 [2013-11-29]
================
* Added 'Title + Year' search from the themoviedb.org trailer provider. This will be useful for plugins that don't support IMDb or TMDb ID's or for people that don't have this information in their database.
* Added support for Trailers from My Videos Shares and Database view, window ID: 6 and ID: 25 respectively.
* Updated translations from Transifex.
v1.0.3 [2013-11-16]
================
* Fixed some minor user interface bugs in the configuration dialog.
* Added a check to see if OnlineVideos has a download directory set by user and use that as a default set of dedicated trailer directories for local search.
* Updated translations from Transifex.
v1.0.2 [2013-11-10]
================
* Added a configuration dialog to make editing settings easier, you can access it from MediaPortal Configuration.
* Fixed an issue where the MovingPictures 'Play' button did not become in focus if exiting the Trailers menu.
* Allow external plugins to invoke a trailer search.
* Added an icon to MP Configuration plugin section.
* Updated translations from Transifex.
v1.0.1 [2013-11-08]
================
* Fixed error seen when searching for local trailers if there is no filename in the current local media database e.g. DVD Media in MyFilms.
* Updated translations from Transifex.
v1.0.0 [2013-11-04]
================
* First Release.