Vantage Point 2.0 - Complete Rework

[Cheesegeezer 3086]

Cheesey Productions brings you 

Vantage Point 2.0

PreRoll Intros for that Cinema Experience

The original VP was both confusing and cumbersome to organise your PreRoll Intros.  Now after a complete rework with both the configuration UI and the backend workers, it's intuitive, easy and the possibilities are endless to create your intros.

 

The new UI

VP GLOBAL TAB

 

VP MOVIES TAB

Click on Add New Intro and then select from the following options

YOU CAN GIVE YOUR INTROS A FRIENDLY NAME TO HELP YOU KNOW WHAT IT'S DOING

Single Intro - Use this option to select a single video file to play

Multiple Intros - Use this option to select a folder of video files.  Random selection is done during playback

1. Trailer - Select this to use online trailers or local trailers(trailers inside movie folders)
   1. if local trailers is switched to enabled - online trailers are dismissed
   2. if local trailers is not switched to enabled - online trailers will be played.

Codec and Tags - Select Video, Audio and/or tags, Embedded Track titles can also be matched - requires a video file with the same name as the codec/tag in a folder

Certification - This is MPAA, BBFC, FSK, etc ratings.  video file must be the same as emby Rating.  eg  GB-12A.mp4

 

Your intros will populate in the list below

 

Click on the Icon to get more options, where you can move the intro around in the sequence

 

 

TV Episodes has now been added

 

Hope you enjoy it.  

V2.1.0.1 RELEASED

1. Adds functionality for TV Shows
2. Changes "Rated R" rating to just "R"
3. custom Strings for matching embedded Track Titles is now removed.  If you are using these you will need to delete and create a new intro based on next point #4
4. Match Embedded Track Title switch has been added.  
5. Minor Bug Fixes

 

 

Edited August 15, 2022 by Cheesegeezer

[Cheesegeezer 3086]

Big shout out to @CassTG for creating a lot of Rating movies.  These have been added to my Dropbox Start Content Folder.

If anyone has content they wish to share, please let me know and i will add it to the folder with credit to the author.

Vantage Point Starter Content

Edited August 13, 2022 by Cheesegeezer

[CassTG 98]

Lets give this a spin. And thanks for ya hard work as always

[Cheesegeezer 3086]

1 minute ago, CassTG said:

Lets give this a spin. And thanks for ya hard work as always

i'll add you to the test group Cass 

[crusher11 850]

So...still no option to match a track title, by the look of this?

[Cheesegeezer 3086]

3 minutes ago, crusher11 said:

So...still no option to match a track title, by the look of this?

Not yet i have the code there but want to test main functionality before adding to it

 

[Cheesegeezer 3086]

23 hours ago, crusher11 said:

So...still no option to match a track title, by the look of this?

It's been added under the Codec Intros section, tested and works pretty good.

 

[crusher11 850]

So...any way for me to try it?

[Cheesegeezer 3086]

19 minutes ago, crusher11 said:

So...any way for me to try it?

Pretty happy with it now.  You can get it in the catalogue

[crusher11 850]

Immediate observations:

No way to edit an intro after you've set it up?

"Enable for already watched movies" - when applying a trailer, it's ambiguous as to whether this means "play the trailer even if the film you're about to watch has already been watched" or "play the trailer even if the film the trailer is for has already been watched". I thought it was the latter until I added a bumper and the same toggle was present.

Still no way to have it play a trailer that is either local or online, at random?

When the "[IntroType] Specific" box pops up after you select an Intro Type in the dropdown, the dropdown blanks out instead of displaying the selected Intro Type.

How do I set up the track title thing? Does it need to be an exact match between track title and file name? It's not really clear.

[Cheesegeezer 3086]

13 minutes ago, crusher11 said:

Immediate observations:

No way to edit an intro after you've set it up?

That's a concious decision and was raised in the test thread.  The work involved for me outways the ease of a user deleting and creating a new one and moving it.

I may add it in the future.

13 minutes ago, crusher11 said:

"Enable for already watched movies" - when applying a trailer, it's ambiguous as to whether this means "play the trailer even if the film you're about to watch has already been watched" or "play the trailer even if the film the trailer is for has already been watched". I thought it was the latter until I added a bumper and the same toggle was present.

Quite simple.  if it was for already watched Trailers then the title would be Enable for already Watched Trailers.  Movies is for the movie you are watching.

13 minutes ago, crusher11 said:

Still no way to have it play a trailer that is either local or online, at random?

Yes there is. in Trailer option.  Select either use local trailer or dont (there are descriptions underneath each options to help you understand the functionality)

13 minutes ago, crusher11 said:

When the "[IntroType] Specific" box pops up after you select an Intro Type in the dropdown, the dropdown blanks out instead of displaying the selected Intro Type.

This need to be done, because if you select the same type nothing happens.  My Javascript isn't great, so i have limitations in my coding skills on the UI side.

13 minutes ago, crusher11 said:

How do I set up the track title thing? Does it need to be an exact match between track title and file name? It's not really clear.

Yes as stated in the Title of the Input field: MATCH Embedded Track Title.

 

Can you please go and read thru the first post in this thread as that give the instructions.

Edited August 14, 2022 by Cheesegeezer

[crusher11 850]

3 minutes ago, Cheesegeezer said:

Quite simple.  if it was for already watched Trailers then the title would be Enable for already Watched Trailers.  Movies is for the movie you are watching.

That option also exists, but what I mean is not "have already watched this trailer before", but "have already watched the movie this trailer advertises before". ie at first glance I thought it was an option wherein the server would, say, pick the trailer for the first Harry Potter film when I'm about to watch the third Harry Potter film, but then realise I've already watched the first Harry Potter film - regardless of whether or not I've watched its trailer - and thus pick a different trailer.

 

5 minutes ago, Cheesegeezer said:

Yes there is. in Trailer option.  Select either use local trailer or dont (there are descriptions underneath each options to help you understand the functionality)

Right, but that's my point, it requires a "slot" be either local or online. The behaviour I had with a very early version of VP, and the behaviour I had with Cinema Intros before that, is that it played exactly one trailer, but it could be either an online or a local trailer at random.

 

7 minutes ago, Cheesegeezer said:

Yes as stated in the Title of the Input field: MATCH Embedded Track Title.

 

Can you please go and read thru the first post in this thread as that give the instructions.

The track titles weren't even a feature when that post was written.

I'm just not sure what the comma-delimited list is for, if it's matching between track titles and file names. It seems redundant?

[Cheesegeezer 3086]

I can only please some of the people some of the time.

Everyone else seems really happy with it in the testing thread

[crusher11 850]

2 minutes ago, Cheesegeezer said:

I can only please some of the people some of the time.

Everyone else seems really happy with it in the testing thread

I'm still not sure what the comma-delimited list is for.

If it's matching track names to file names, then wouldn't it just need a toggle, same as the codecs? What am I missing?

[Cheesegeezer 3086]

this feature was put in just for you  fella.  

You really inspire me.

[crusher11 850]

10 minutes ago, Cheesegeezer said:

this feature was put in just for you  fella.  

You really inspire me.

The only way the comma-delimited list makes sense to me, is if the list does a partial match against the track, and the intro file name matches the text in the list. Which also makes sense for usability.

ie, list is "2.0 Surround,2.0 Mono", intro files are "2.0 Surround.mp4" and "2.0 Mono.mp4", and it matches track names like "Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono", "DTS-HD MA 2.0 Surround", "LPCM 2.0 Mono", "Dolby TrueHD 2.0 Surround", etc.

I think that's the implementation we discussed previously. But I'm not sure if it's that, or if the MP4 files need to match the track title exactly (ie I would need "Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono.mp4", "DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono.mp4", "LPCM 2.0 Mono.mp4", etc).

[crusher11 850]

Well I've tried both approaches, and neither seems to work.

[Cheesegeezer 3086]

33 minutes ago, crusher11 said:

Well I've tried both approaches, and neither seems to work.

needs to be with out extension

[crusher11 850]

Just now, Cheesegeezer said:

needs to be with out extension

On the list? Yes. The list is:

Dolby Surround,Dolby Stereo,2.0 Surround,2.0 Mono,Dual Mono,4K HEVC HDR10+,4K HEVC Dolby Vision,4K HEVC Dolby Vision HDR10+

And my files are:

 

No codec intro plays for Atomic Blonde:

 

Or for Blood Simple:

And yes, it's enabled for watched movies. I do get the bumper, so it's not a total failure of the plugin to play anything at all.

[Cheesegeezer 3086]

14 minutes ago, crusher11 said:

And yes, it's enabled for watched movies. I do get the bumper, so it's not a total failure of the plugin to play anything at all

glad to hear it!

[crusher11 850]

8 minutes ago, Cheesegeezer said:

glad to hear it!

That doesn't resolve the issue with the track name matching, however.

[Cheesegeezer 3086]

3 minutes ago, crusher11 said:

That doesn't resolve the issue with the track name matching, however.

What issue, you are saying it works and now it doesn’t. Please explain more! 

[crusher11 850]

Just now, Cheesegeezer said:

What issue, you are saying it works and now it doesn’t. Please explain more! 

The bumper plays. So the plugin clearly functions.

None of my track-matching intros play.

[Cheesegeezer 3086]

7 minutes ago, crusher11 said:

The bumper plays. So the plugin clearly functions.

None of my track-matching intros play.

I’m not sure where the bumper came into play. As i thought we were discussing track matches. I’ll look at again tomorrow 

[crusher11 850]

Just now, Cheesegeezer said:

I’m not sure where the bumper came into play. As i thought we were discussing track matches. I’ll look at again tomorrow 

I set up two trailers (unwatched movies only), a bumper (watched & unwatched), and track matches (watched and unwatched).

The trailers and bumper play just fine, when applicable, which means that the track matches not playing isn't due to something stupid like me forgetting to turn the plugin on.