InTheaters plugin via XScript - Discontinued

by **m_masta** on Tue Apr 11, 2006 12:04 am

scottw wrote:tswhite70,

How are you playing the trailers, just launching a external copy of Quicktime thru XL???

I have to say I was not interested with the trailers at all before but after playing with them, I love it

Keep up the good work!!!!

You may be able to use "Quicktime Alternative" to play on a directshow player.

by **scottw** on Tue Apr 11, 2006 12:07 am

You mean I could play it on Zoom Player?? I will have to look into this. Do you have a link???

Thanks,

by **m_masta** on Tue Apr 11, 2006 12:18 am

scottw wrote:You mean I could play it on Zoom Player?? I will have to look into this. Do you have a link???

Thanks,

Yes, you can play it on any Directshow player.
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Qui ... native.htm

by **hvs69** on Tue Apr 11, 2006 7:34 am

tswhite70 wrote:hvs69 - I've added some error handling real quick for directory paths, if the path was incorrect the script would just hang which is what I'm guessing you are experiencing. Hopefully this will fix things up for you.

I don't know why the script doesn't show the overlay when running from F2. It will pop up the overlay behind F2 if the paths are wrong. One other thing, I'm pretty sure the script requires .NET 2.0 now but I don't have 1.1 box anymore to test on.

New version:
v1.3 04/10/2006
Steven’s Simplicity Default skin files & script:
http://home.houston.rr.com/rswhite/inth ... eaters.zip
(No changes were made to the skin files, so if you already have them you can just download the script.)

InTheaters_GetMovies script only:
http://home.houston.rr.com/rswhite/inth ... movies.zip

good luck,
tsw

OK, My Bad. The previous version of the script does work. I was just not patient enough. However, it does sort of lock up the XLobby during the first download (when you try to populate the database for the first time). This is not a biggie as far as I am concerned. Again thanks for all your effort. This script turned out to be wonderful.

For the trailers, you may want to look at the alternative link (Dave's traller page) I provided in my earlier posting if Xpath query turns out to be difficult. This website has pretty simple layout and page-scraping (which you are already very good at) for trailer url should be very easy. Anyhow, your current method of obtaining URLs seem to be working for at least a few movies. Thanks again.

Quicktime Alternative with zoomplayer is working quite well for watching the trailers.

by **scottw** on Tue Apr 11, 2006 1:46 pm

OK I don't want to thread jack so if this needs to be moved just let me know but it is related.

The QT Alternative is cool but I still need some help with Zoom. I installed the latest QT Alternative and am running Zoom Player 4.51 and the .mov files play fine if I goto Zoom and Open URL and put in the Url but if I call it directly from XL I get the red zoom error box stating: Unable to play (The movie file) This may be due to a corrupt file, missing filters, etc...

Now the weird part is this only happens on files I have not played before. For example I try to play the Inside Man trailer from XL and Intheaters I get the error, I then copy the url from the xml database and manual open Zoom and paste the url in the "Open URl" box and it plays. Then I close zoom and go back to XL and try to launch the trailer from XL and it works fine.

Any Ideas???

by **tswhite70** on Tue Apr 11, 2006 2:56 pm

scottw - See http://forum.inmatrix.com/index.php?sho ... l=open+url

It's a problem with ZP and URL's from the commandline. ZP changes the URL to all caps - supposed to be fixed in 5.0 beta 1.

tsw

by **scottw** on Tue Apr 11, 2006 3:03 pm

Thanks,

What are you using to play the trailers?

by **hvs69** on Wed Apr 12, 2006 5:00 am

I think Media Player Classic works very well compared to zoomplayer. I have now created a button on my skin to automatically launch MPC in full screen mode and play the trailer. Works seamlessly.

by **m_masta** on Fri Apr 14, 2006 4:36 am

How are you guys passing the trailer info.
I'm trying unsuccesfully.
I create an event: Os/Execute ->C:\program files\quicktime\quicktimeplayer.exe
Argument -> %intheaters>trl_large%

yet nothing is happening. Am I going about it wrong?

Thanks for the help.

by **scottw** on Fri Apr 14, 2006 11:43 am

I think Argument -> %intheaters>trl_large%

needs to be Argument -> %xintheaters>trl_large%

also make sure the trailer option is turned on in the script and not all of the movies, maybe half, don't have the trailer url.

by **m_masta** on Fri Apr 14, 2006 1:01 pm

scottw wrote:I think Argument -> %intheaters>trl_large%

needs to be Argument -> %xintheaters>trl_large%

also make sure the trailer option is turned on in the script and not all of the movies, maybe half, don't have the trailer url.

but my database is actually named "intheaters"

yes, I am making sure that the item has a trailer associated with it.
I'll give it a go when I get back home.

masta

by **scottw** on Fri Apr 14, 2006 1:04 pm

This is directly from the script:

Code: Select all: ' Name the category "Xintheaters" and set the database to "intheaters". '**** NOTE! THESE NAMES ARE NOT OPTIONAL!!!!!! *****

by **m_masta** on Fri Apr 14, 2006 1:17 pm

So what you are saying is that in arguments we should have the format as
%category>parameter%, and not %database>parameter% like I thought.
I think I understand now.
Thanks alot, I'll confirm when I get home.

by **scottw** on Fri Apr 14, 2006 1:31 pm

Yeah,

My category is named xintheaters and the database is intheaters.
My arguments is: %xintheaters>trl_large%

Hope that helps.

by **m_masta** on Fri Apr 14, 2006 6:39 pm

scottw wrote:Yeah,

My category is named xintheaters and the database is intheaters.
My arguments is: %xintheaters>trl_large%

Hope that helps.

Thanks,
That did the trick.
Is there a technique you are using to determine whether the movie has a trailer or not? (besides directly looking at the db)
Maybe it can be setup to show offline/online depending on if trailer was acquired or not.

Thanks again.