Movie Trailers in Movie Jukebox....an exiting new feature coming soon to X3D

[docbill]

Sorry but just not getting it.  The movie is already on my archive to watch.   One click and I can watch any preview I wish.  Why would I want to go to Youtube to watch a preview of a movie I already have archived on my media server storage?

I can see two use cases that make sense.   The first would be you have a guest and are trying to help them decide which movie to watch.   A trailer is going to be far more interesting that a few random scenes, and they are more likely to be agreeable to watch the trailer if they are undecided.   The second use case is if you wanted random trailers playing, sort of like a preview channel.   So when you happen to walk by and hear a preview that sounds interesting, you could click in and play the movies that you had long since forgotten about why you kept them...

Both scenarios require being able to easily click back to the movie to watch it to be useful, and neither needs are met by this current implementation.

That said, I'm still not sure why I would want to go out to youtube.  In most cases I still have those DVD's and Blurays I can rip a trailer from, probably in better quality.   I understand the process limitations.  That does not mean you can't add an command line argument or store state information for the jukebox to allow it to return to a previous location...   It just means it isn't as trivial as just switching to another running process.

[JuniorClass]

Best thing you ever did . i'm getting tired of my friends keep complain about no Trailers within the movies like some other MP use to have . 

Thanks alot for this feature

[jsmiddleton4]

" not sure why I would want to go out to youtube."

I'm with you.  Trailer feature could be provided without all the logistics required.  And with all the work required, what happens on the day Google, and they will, changes something about YouTube access?   That has happened.  Google can change their API at a moment's notice.

If you can't figure out what a movie you already own and have archived so as to be available to the media server looking at about.jpg and the folder.jpg I'd say you have a bigger issue beyond what trailers resolve. 

The amount of time spent in development for this thing keeps growing and growing.

So is this feature enabling folks to not own the movie archive they've put on their media server?  Some folks are downloading pirated copies and need a trailer feature because they really don't know what's on their media server storage?

Is that what no one wants to discuss openly?  Pirated copies with pirated sub titles down loaded to media storage and folks need a youtube trailer to see what they've down loaded?

[pallec]

" not sure why I would want to go out to youtube."

I'm with you.  Trailer feature could be provided without all the logistics required.  And with all the work required, what happens on the day Google, and they will, changes something about YouTube access?   That has happened.  Google can change their API at a moment's notice.

If you can't figure out what a movie you already own and have archived so as to be available to the media server looking at about.jpg and the folder.jpg I'd say you have a bigger issue beyond what trailers resolve.  

The amount of time spent in development for this thing keeps growing and growing.

So is this feature enabling folks to not own the movie archive they've put on their media server?  Some folks are downloading pirated copies and need a trailer feature because they really don't know what's on their media server storage?

Is that what no one wants to discuss openly?  Pirated copies with pirated sub titles down loaded to media storage and folks need a youtube trailer to see what they've down loaded?

What are you talking about...!?

How did we go from trailers to pirated copies.....

The reason that I - and I am sure most people as well - want a trailer, is to see a presentation of what you can expect from the movie. You cannot see that from just watching some seconds of the actual movie (what you call a preview).

When I rip my DVDs and Bly-rays, I only rip the movie itself to save space on my NAS. Even if the actual DVD/BD had the trailer in the extras (which often it does not), I prefer to get it from an online source.

It is simply an insult that you accuse the people who wants the trailers online, to be using pirated copies 

[Maasbommel]

Locked this discussion as firmware is already released with several betas.