trailers help

[Grooby]

i apologise if this subject has been done to death allready but i cant find the specifics on a search...

is it possible to link a trailers DB to my movies DB.

what i want is a view trailer button that will show a specific trailer in xmovewindow for a specific film from within movie view. It all seems to be based on random trailers, not play trailer for the film i want.

i am trying to avoid having a seperate trailers module in xlobby with all the trailers listed seperately(if u get my meaning?)

if it is possible can someone type out the paramaeters and paths etc needed to get xmovewindow and media player classic to do this.

thanks
Andy

[lar282]

Have u tried this in the Help section?

http://xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=19152#19152


//Lasse

[Grooby]

yeah, not what i'm after tho, thats all random trailers

i am after trailer specific for a film by pressing a trailers button in movies to preview a film from its trailer.

[Naylia]

that's a piece of cake...if you can get them all in the same format at least (format doesn't matter as long as they are all the same, i rip all my trailers from their dvds so i do vob/ifos for all mine)

create a trailers folder and put each trailer in a folder in the trailers folder each folder should share the exact name of the movie...for instance:

C:\Trailers\Finding Nemo\

now put the trailers in the corresponding folders and give them the same file name...like trailer.mpg

so you put on button on your movie screen that says "Play Trailer" and you tie it to a new event you create called 'play trailer' and that event uses the 'os>execute' command, and i think the paramater would be something like "c:\trailers\%display%\trailer.mpg" with no quotes around it

maybe someother folks can help you with more precise syntax or a slightly more elegant way, because well, i haven't had my coffee yet so this is just a rough outline...reminds me i need to add a play trailer button to my skin!

[Grooby]

thanks man, looks to be a good pointer in the right direction...

i will have a look 2night after work.

if anybody else has any other suggestions please feel free to comment.

Andy

[Grooby]

no joy last night

Tried Zoomplayer instead, Zoom launches but trailer does not play. I think i am having problems with the correct "arguement" path in the os execute command screen.

any help?

[Naylia]

http://www.inmatrix.com/zplayer/parameters.shtml

probably want

/F - (fullscreen)
/Q - (quit when done)
/PLAY
/MOUSEOFF