[RELEASE] Cinema Experience - the new Home Theater Experience Script

Cinema Experience really doesn't stop until the very last video is stopped. The biggest problem with external players is that XBMC doesn't track the states of the player, just start and stopping of the player(I could be wrong) Also Cinema Experience does not choose what player plays the video, that is controlled by XBMC and playercorefactory.xml -> http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=External_players

(2012-08-07 02:04)giftie Wrote:  Cinema Experience really doesn't stop until the very last video is stopped. The biggest problem with external players is that XBMC doesn't track the states of the player, just start and stopping of the player(I could be wrong) Also Cinema Experience does not choose what player plays the video, that is controlled by XBMC and playercorefactory.xml -> http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=External_players

Thanks for the help man. I figured it out. At first I made a separate folder in XBMC for my 3D movies. Cinema Experience was working the way it has to, but not the way I wanted. I decided to put my 3D movies with the regular movies in the same folder, and it ended up working the way I wanted it to work. I was surprised!!!. After Cinema Experience was done doing the intros and stuff, it switched to the external player. Thanks again for the quick reply.

I'm on Openelec and the Apple Trailers addon is listed as broken due to a dependency. I've got the Apple Trailers Lite version and all works well, but I'd like to be able to use the full Apple Trailers database. Is there a way I can download the database itself so CE can pull from the entire database and not just recent ones?

(2012-08-07 19:33)xm41907 Wrote:  I'm on Openelec and the Apple Trailers addon is listed as broken due to a dependency. I've got the Apple Trailers Lite version and all works well, but I'd like to be able to use the full Apple Trailers database. Is there a way I can download the database itself so CE can pull from the entire database and not just recent ones?

The script has the option to use the database. Check the settings for trailer scraper. Also I don't think either Apple Trailers(either one) is being maintained at the moment.

CE is working great, the problem is that the full version of Apple Movie Trailers won't install on my system, I guess it's not compatible with Openelec. Apple Movie Trailers Lite works well, but it doesn't create the database (amt.db) that CE utilizes for streaming older trailers. I was hoping to find a way to create this database without having the full Apple Move Trailers addon. I guess I'm out of luck. It's not a deal breaker, as CE works perfect with AMT Lite at streaming the newest trailers. When I get the chance, I'm going to see if I can get it working on my laptop to create the database, then transfer it to my HTPC.

I don't know if this has been fixed but in settings under special videos Countdown is spelled "Coundown" . Also thanks to giftie for such a great script.

Hi All, I finished my theater room this past weekend and found XBMC while doing a general search about HTPC's, That search led me to find the Cinema Experience and I joined the forum tonight just to say THANK YOU to this community. I installed XBMC and CE two nights ago and have been pouring over every thread and topic I can find. Tonight I finally have the system setup and running. Pre show trivia, a few commercials, a welcome to our theater and policy trailer, and have the script scraping 2 current trailers just before the feature presentation. THIS ADD ON ROCKS!!!

Now I just need to tweek my settings and have 2 questions I cant seem to find an answer too.
I am running win7 64b with eden 11 with the Back Row Skin and Cinema Experience V2.0.57

What I am needing answered:
1: I have my Trivia slideshow set the volume to 80% of max. When the time ends and the program continues to the next stage, the speaker icon and bar shows on the screen as the sound fades off then ramps back up. Can this be hidden from view so the audience does not see the volume control?

2: when the trivia slide show times out, the screen fades to black to start the next event. In my case, a commercial is played from the local drive. when this happens, the movie information screen re-appears for about 1 to 2 seconds. then the commercial plays and the rest of the "experience" continues. Is there a setting that can be used to hide this from happening so i won't see the information screen? I'm betting there is and I just havn't figured it out yet.
Anyway..Like I said... AWESOME Add on and a Big BIG thank you to you guys and gals that are making this available to us.
Oh, One side note: is there an actual tutorial somewhere here that explains everything to do to set this up from scratch? I figured it out pretty easily by reading through a few different topics but am wondering if anyone has made a single point topic to fully show how a person installs and configures the program. If not, I may make a post on it once the last few tweeks are made to mine.
Thanks for any info you guys can give me about my speaker icon and movie info questions...
John A

(2012-08-15 03:03)crashswiftly Wrote:  Hi All, I finished my theater room this past weekend and found XBMC while doing a general search about HTPC's, That search led me to find the Cinema Experience and I joined the forum tonight just to say THANK YOU to this community. I installed XBMC and CE two nights ago and have been pouring over every thread and topic I can find. Tonight I finally have the system setup and running. Pre show trivia, a few commercials, a welcome to our theater and policy trailer, and have the script scraping 2 current trailers just before the feature presentation. THIS ADD ON ROCKS!!!

Now I just need to tweek my settings and have 2 questions I cant seem to find an answer too.
I am running win7 64b with eden 11 with the Back Row Skin and Cinema Experience V2.0.57

What I am needing answered:
1: I have my Trivia slideshow set the volume to 80% of max. When the time ends and the program continues to the next stage, the speaker icon and bar shows on the screen as the sound fades off then ramps back up. Can this be hidden from view so the audience does not see the volume control?

This a fault of XBMC, though the skin developer can hide this pop up by testing for a skin property -> SubString(Window(10025).Property(CinemaExperienceRunning),True) and hide the volume bar.

Quote:2: when the trivia slide show times out, the screen fades to black to start the next event. In my case, a commercial is played from the local drive. when this happens, the movie information screen re-appears for about 1 to 2 seconds. then the commercial plays and the rest of the "experience" continues. Is there a setting that can be used to hide this from happening so i won't see the information screen? I'm betting there is and I just havn't figured it out yet.

There problem is that XBMC is not ready yet to play te video. I am working on a way to keep the background blacked out until the video starts(just haven't figure that out yet)

is it possible to make this autostart by hitting play instead of hitting the cinema button?

Giftie,

Thanks for the responses to my questions. I may try a different skin and see if any others block that pop up.

John