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BloodyIron
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I'm almost done setting up Emby how I like it, but the Trailer ecosystem seems very inconsistent.

 

I was going to roll with Cinema mode on with 2 trailers before movies, but I'm just going to turn Cinema mode off because of how inconsistent the trailer quality is.

 

What do I mean? Well, quite a bit of the time I just straight up get a video playback issue and it won't even try another trailer. Some trailers I get no audio on, and some don't even completely stream correctly.

 

But, there are plenty that work as one would expect. I get audio, the resolution looks good, and all that.

 

It seems like the community made/encoded trailers are pretty junky, but I've only tried a few, such as the "Alien Series" one which never gives me more than 7 seconds of playable video. Or the Die Hard trailer which never has audio.

 

I don't know how exactly these trailers are vetted, but I'm very turned off by the inconsistency here, and I'm not even sure if Emby is spearheading this, or if it's an external group, or what. But I don't see this changing in the near future (due to what I suspect is the magnitude of fixing this). So I'm just turning Cinema mode off...

 

My testing environment:

 

Browser: Chromium Version 55.0.2883.87 Built on Ubuntu , running on Ubuntu 16.10 (64-bit)

Emby-Server OS: Ubuntu 16.04 server

 

I didn't really see anything helpful in the logs, also.

BloodyIron
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I saw that this thread was moved to Windows/General. I'm not sure if it's relevant but I'm running my server on Linux. Is this the appropriate place for it to be moved? I dunno

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I'm sorry, where you posted it was fine. Thanks !

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BloodyIron
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You guys are 2awesome! :D

BloodyIron
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Yeah, but I was really hoping to leverage the public records for trailers :/

 

 

You can pull your own trailers off the Bluray and store them with the video. I am pretty sure they will take priority over the ones found on the Internet.

 

https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Wiki/wiki/Trailers

BloodyIron
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Well, I've disabled it for the time being as it was getting in the way with the occasional chance of the failure.

 

But, is there anything I can do to help? Have you been looking into this earlier than now, or?

 

I love the idea of Trailers though, so it would be awesome if this could be resolved! :D

 

 

@@BloodyIron, we are looking into this, no need to disable it. thanks !

Happy2Play
Posted

Isn't the only way around this is updating the trailers on TMDB, as that is where the like is coming from.

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I still can't get ANY trailers to play in ANY emby app.  I've got cinema mode enabled with 2 trailers playing along with a custom intro I made.  I've got it setup to play only trailers from my personal collection.  About 90% of my collection has trailers stored in their media folders.  Media goes straight to custom intro and then to the media, but no trailers EVER play.  I posted about it awhile back and @@Luke said he would look into it but I got no response after that.

 

FWIW, it used to work a few server versions back...can't remember which one it stopped working at though.

 

https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/43195-cinema-mode-not-playing-trailers/

Edited by diaz1510
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@@diaz1510, Do you have the Trailers plugin installed. I think it is required...

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BloodyIron
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Sometimes these things take time. Now that we have some more examples of it breaking or something, hopefully that'll help pinpoint the source(s) of grief! :D

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@@BloodyIron, I just noticed that a new Dev version of the server was installed with a reference to fixing the playing of Local Trailers - might solve your problem...

BloodyIron
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But my trailers aren't local though?

 

 

@@BloodyIron, I just noticed that a new Dev version of the server was installed with a reference to fixing the playing of Local Trailers - might solve your problem...

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yeah, maybe, but you never know. Have you tried the Dev server?

BloodyIron
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Considering I haven't even had 24hrs with my Emby ecosystem being finished setup, I'm going to hold off on Dev updates for the time being. lol

 

But I'll try to keep appraised as best I can and help elsewhere.

 

 

yeah, maybe, but you never know. Have you tried the Dev server?

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@@diaz1510, Do you have the Trailers plugin installed. I think it is required...

Yes, I have it installed

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Looks like people with trailer issues, have custom intro's or personal trailers.

 

I have no issues, but i get internet trailers only.

BloodyIron
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No, I don't have personal trailers nor custom intros. Yet I have trailer issues.

 

 

Looks like people with trailer issues, have custom intro's or personal trailers.

 

I have no issues, but i get internet trailers only.

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