Trailers resolution

[tman 47]

I have the Trailers plugin installed, and while it now works ok (had problems resolving 'trailers.apple.com' before), I wondered if there's any way of controlling the resolution of the trailers it plays. They seem to be the 1080P versions that I always get, but I'd be quite happy with 720P or even 480P (it's only a trailer after all). As trailers are often available in multiple resolutions, it would be nice to be able to chose, or even say, don't play trailers above xx resolution.

[Vidman 590]

There is exactly that option in the channels settings page

 

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[Luke 38491]

the trailers are actually 720p, and have an unusually high bitrate for 720p content. so you might need to try the 480p setting. they have 480p versions at 1/10th the bitrate.

[tman 47]

Great. Thanks for that. I've found the option (seems to be a 'generic' setting), and changed it to 720P. Should be fine with that.

[moviefan 184]

The new Trailers channel seems to be displaying the videos in lower quality than the previous HD Trailers plugin.

 

I notice pixelation a lot more.

 

I currently have the setting as "Best Quality." 

 

Should I have it set to something else?

[moviefan 184]

Any update on this?

 

Trailers still look very pixelated....  

[moviefan 184]

Also, just FYI, I tried specify 1080p as well as best available and it still looks the same.

 

Are these downloading from a different source than they were before the channels version?

 

Thanks,

[Luke 38491]

same source. for trailers there are only two resolutions, 720p and 480p. The system wide setting is a preference, not a guarantee. if a channel only has one stream then that's what you get, no matter what that value is set to.

[moviefan 184]

Thanks for the response.

 

I guess I am just confused because the quality is significantly worse for all of my trailers since I switched to the channel version.

 

Does it have something to do with the pre-downloading?

 

Would disabling that option and setting it to stream only somehow get the higher quality version?

[Luke 38491]

no. make sure your server and client apps are all up to date with their latest versions and then i think it will be fine.

[moviefan 184]

Server Version 3.0.5309.26857

 

Client MBC 3.0.195.0

 

It plays fine it just doesn't look at all HD anymore because anytime there is motion it is very blurry pixelated compared to how it used to look in the non-channel version.

[Luke 38491]

mbc 195 streams them direct from apple without using the server's transcoding, so they are identical to what we had before channels.

[wallaceff 3]

Any thoughts on enabling a transcoding option? (for a whole heap or reasons)

[Luke 38491]

if you need a lower bitrate then i would just select 480p quality in channel settings. Ebr did originally have MBC streaming them via transcoding but then that's what created the uproar.

[moviefan 184]

mbc 195 streams them direct from apple without using the server's transcoding, so they are identical to what we had before channels.

 

There is a folder in the channels folder of the MB server directory that appears to have all of the trailers downloaded as MP4s.  Is this just for the older versions of MBC?

[ebr 15331]

There is a folder in the channels folder of the MB server directory that appears to have all of the trailers downloaded as MP4s.  Is this just for the older versions of MBC?

 

All apple trailers are mp4s I believe.  Sounds like you told the plug-in to download them.

[Dibbes 438]

All apple trailers are mp4s I believe.  Sounds like you told the plug-in to download them.

 

I noticed that if you download the channel content, it downloads them both in Quicktime and MP4