Welcome to the Kodi-script.video.randomtrailers wiki!
Mission: To resurrect the orphaned and non-functioning Kodi random trailers
screensaver and script.
Status:
Complete rewrite. A lot more function, but bigger. Beta. Fully functional,
but limited testing with Kodi 19 using Python 3.8 & 3.9.
See RELEASE_NOTES.txt for information not contained here.
Major accomplishments:
* Feature complete
* Multi-threaded to speed up discovery, improve randomness and eliminate
wait to download information before each play of remote content
Among the features:
* Gets trailers from the library, TMDb, TFH and local trailers folder
* Falls back to TMDb for missing trailers from local database
* Falls back to TMDb for missing local and TFH movie details
* One addon, with three extension points:
1- A trailer discovery module that performs the hard work of finding
and caching the trailers. Runs as a daemon.
2- A Frontend is the user facing app. It is used for both screensaver
and manual launch.
3- A screensaver service. This thin piece of code gets launched by
Kodi's screensaver function. It then starts up the frontend.
* Supports a local cache for trailers and information downloaded from
remote sites
* Supports Normalization of audio, mostly to help ghastly trailers/clips
originating from youtube
* Filter by Genre, Certification, year, rating, popularity, etc. for
local, TMDb and TFH
* Can configure various cache attributes: max size, max number of
files, max % of disk, delete old files.
* Plugin runs stand alone or as a screensaver
* Back-end is a separate long-running service, reducing startup time
and high startup cost
* User ability to add current trailer to a playlist mostly to flag
movies that they would like to watch, or note for any reason
* Internationalized (limited testing). All messages use translation
system. Country code and language used in remote movie queries
* Genre information is loaded from .xml files allowing customization
* Certification/Rating information is loaded from .xml files to allow
different rules and names by country. (Kodi appears to have some
limitations in this area: ratings do not include country info.)
Support for Text to Speech plugin (under development)