[spaceboy]

hi, i'm a new user of xbmc trying to get to grips with a windows install before i move on to raspbmc, which seems to be largely the same. My media library is configured for Media Browser and i'd really like to leave it like that because i use Windows Media Center and Media Browser on my HTPC.

My issue is that because the trailers for each movie are in subfolders i get a lot of "Trailer Horn" entries which i kind of understand but don't want. so i thought from looking at the wiki that i could use the advancedsettings.xml to exclude the trailers as they are all commonly named. but, it doesn't seem to work. my advancedsettings.xml file reads:

<advancedsettings>
<video>
<excludefromscan>
<regexp>-trailers</regexp>
</excludefromscan>
</video>
</advancedsettings>

what am i doing wrong? is it looking at the folder names rather than the video files? the only way i have been able exclude the Trailer Horn entries is by adding the source at the folder level and telling it not to search recursively but i was hoping there was a more elegant solution so i can add sources at the root?

thanks for any help

[PatK]

From the wiki

<video>
<excludefromscan>
<regexp>[!-._ \\/]-trailer|-horn[-._ \\/]</regexp>
</excludefromscan>
</video>

I don't know any horn files... but you can exclude them too.

[spaceboy]

hi Pat, Thanks for your response but thats still not working for me. all files are named trailer.ext and are in a subfolder to the movie folder called "trailers". i presume i just need this in the advanced settings.xml

<video>
<excludefromscan>
<regexp>[!-._ \\/]-trailer[-._ \\/]</regexp>
</excludefromscan>
</video>

but i still see the trailers being picked up in the library. i can't determine from either your post or the wiki whether the </advancedsettings> wrapper is required, but i've tried with and without and still no difference. could you explain what this is trying to do? [!-._ \\/]

perhaps you could explain what

[spiff]

you also need the surrounding advancedsettings tag.

[PatK]

<advancedsettings>
<video>
<excludefromscan>
<regexp>[-._ \\/]trailers[-._ \\/]</regexp>
</excludefromscan>
</video>
</advancedsettings>

or/and exclude from listing.

[spaceboy]

perfect. thanks very much!