diaz1510 150 Posted December 2, 2016 Share Posted December 2, 2016 (edited) I've noticed that on a good portion of movie trailers from my collection, I get an error message popping up. Not all movies but some of them. I've got many of the movie trailers stored locally as well, but not all. I don't have an issue with those. Only the ones where I don't have the trailer locally stored. I've got the trailer plugin but not sure if that has anything to do with it. This was the page I got when trying to click on the trailer for my copy of Inception But it happens to quite a few of my movies as well. I am initialing thinking that it may be that the particular video that it links to on YouTube is either no longer available or protected somehow. If that is the case, how can I either reset it or point it to a different YouTube link, as there are a number of (in this case) Inception trailers on YouTube? Thanks Edited December 2, 2016 by diaz1510 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37233 Posted December 2, 2016 Share Posted December 2, 2016 This is due to it trying to open up a kodi plugin url in the browser (notice the url). I think this was an issue with the way the server was saving these urls in metadata a while ago. It has been corrected for future titles but will not repair existing ones. Try adding a new movie and see if the issue persists. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diaz1510 150 Posted December 2, 2016 Author Share Posted December 2, 2016 (edited) Hmm, I noticed that some of the newer ones do work fine and link directly to youtube. Is there anyway to manually correct the ones already loaded? I've been going thru my movies that don't have the trailer locally stored and it's been a lot of the older ones so far. Is there a metadata tag to manually add a trailer url? Edited December 2, 2016 by diaz1510 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37233 Posted December 2, 2016 Share Posted December 2, 2016 Try refreshing them from the web app. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diaz1510 150 Posted December 2, 2016 Author Share Posted December 2, 2016 Nope...that didn't work, just tried it....still sends me to that incorrect url Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37233 Posted December 2, 2016 Share Posted December 2, 2016 Ok then yes you'll need to remove it from your nfo file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diaz1510 150 Posted December 2, 2016 Author Share Posted December 2, 2016 Yup that worked!! I just just found the link on YouTube myself and replaced it in the .nfo file, then restarted the server. Worked like a charm. I'll have to go one by each file to update it, but it'll work. Would be cool if there was a box in the metadata manager to update this manually. Kind of like, if left blank...will automatically do it, but if you want to point to a specific url, you can enter it in the metadata of the media. Any chance that could ever happen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diaz1510 150 Posted December 3, 2016 Author Share Posted December 3, 2016 (edited) Actually, as I was updating some of the messed up media files, I noticed something. Here is an example of a movie that sends me to that failed link page when pressing the TRAILER button : Idiocracy (2006), the line of code in the .nfo that pertains to the trailer is: <trailer>plugin://plugin.video.youtube/?action=play_video&videoid=clYwX8Z43zg</trailer> If I cut the bolded text and paste it into a YouTube url, it will find the YouTube link and play it just fine within YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clYwX8Z43zg However, here is an example of a movie that works just fine when pressing the TRAILER button: Universal Soldier (1992), the line of code in that .nfo file that pertains to the trailer is: <trailer>plugin://plugin.video.youtube/?action=play_video&videoid=5Y7BWfIEfuo</trailer> If I cut the bolded text and paste it into a YouTube url, it will find the YouTube link and play it just fine within YouTube as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y7BWfIEfuo If I convert the line of code in either .nfo to: <trailer>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxxxxxxxxxx</trailer> they both play just fine when pressing the TRAILER button My question is, both lines of code in the .nfo files are identical in format, both have existing and unblocked YouTube content but only one works. Is there something I'm missing? Edited December 3, 2016 by diaz1510 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37233 Posted December 3, 2016 Share Posted December 3, 2016 A url starting with plugin:// will only work inside Kodi. A regular youtube url https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y7BWfIEfuo will work anywhere. does that answer your question? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diaz1510 150 Posted December 3, 2016 Author Share Posted December 3, 2016 (edited) Yes, I understand that, but I don't use kodi and never have...and those links I was using as an example, I am using on the same PC, through the same browser. One works...one doesn't... How is it that this one works just fine through the Firefox web client? <trailer>plugin://plugin.video.youtube/?action=play_video&videoid=5Y7BWfIEfuo</trailer> Edited December 3, 2016 by diaz1510 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37233 Posted December 3, 2016 Share Posted December 3, 2016 Because we store them in the nfo using kodi conventions but then we normalize that internally Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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