intro video before the actual movie (1 Viewer)

[marlon1925]

hi huys,

noob here how do i set the MP to play an intro video before the actual movie?

help me please?

 

[ryan20021982]

First you will need to install the MovingPictures Plugin if you haven't already.

After you install it you will need to go to the MP config and then Plugins and right click the MovingPictures Plugin and click Configuration and then you can add your media folders and it will scan them all in and get all the info for them.

When that's all done go to the About page and click Advanced Settings

Then scroll down to the setting Custom Intro Location

I know it sounds like alot of work but if you don't already use the MovingPictures it will be worth it.

 

[marlon1925]

wow!! thanks ryan...big time! i really appreciate it...i just made my custom intro play before any movie woohoOO!

uhmmm......im just wondering if it is possible for the moving pictures/mediaportal to play a random intro?

 

[ryan20021982]

Don't think that is possible right now.

This is something like what you want
Issue 749 - moving-pictures - Additional custom intro movies - A movies plugin for the MediaPortal media center application. - Google Project Hosting

You can star the feature request to add more support.

 

[marlon1925]

thnx sir, how about a random slide show? (jpeg files)

 

[wickedlemon]

If issue 749 never gets implemented you could always randomise the intro yourself. Create a folder with video files in and then set the intro video to a file elsewhere. You then just need a script to copy a random file from your intros folder to the the file you've specified in Moving Pictures at regular intervals.

I haven't tried this myself, but we use a small batch file to change the default desktop image when people log in at work.

Something like this:

@echo off & setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion

dir /b/a-d "D:\intros\*.avi" > filelist
set /a c =0

for /f "tokens=1* delims=[]" %%a in (filelist) do (
set /a c=!c!+1
echo !c! - %%a %%b

if %%a equ !s! echo use %%b
)
set /a s=!random!%%%c% +1
echo Random file is %s% of %c%

set /a d =0

for /f "tokens=1* delims=[]" %%a in (filelist) do (
set /a d=!d!+1
if !d! equ %s% copy /Y "D:\intros\%%a" "D:\videos\currentintro.avi"
)