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

I have managed to get cinema experience to work but in order for it to play my intro i have to go movie infor then click cinima play. Is this the way everyone else is doing it or does it auto lauch when you click the video. ? I am using eden on windows 7 64x running neon skin.

(2012-05-11 08:15)dildotron2000 Wrote:  I have managed to get cinema experience to work but in order for it to play my intro i have to go movie infor then click cinima play. Is this the way everyone else is doing it or does it auto lauch when you click the video. ? I am using eden on windows 7 64x running neon skin.

There are two main ways of starting Cinema Experience. Most skins have the option to start Cinema Experience via the Info window(tried and true way since the script was first created).

Some skins have the option of starting from the Home Window, some what doing what you want, but not exactly. This method was first included to allow multiple movies to be queued up(ie a Double/Multi Feature, with intermission videos) This method allows the number of features to be set from 1 to 5. It requires the movie to be Queued for the script to start.

I think one of the Cirrus skin versions has the option of triggering it from the Context Menu while in the Movies Node.

Also one of the Web Interface Addons(AWX) allows triggering of Cinema Experience from the movie info page.


I would love to be able to capture the Play/Select options when on the Movie Node, but have yet to find out how to do so, but let the rest of the controls(Up/Down/Left/Right/etc.) to pass thru.(one day maybe)

(2012-05-11 18:21)giftie Wrote:  

(2012-05-11 08:15)dildotron2000 Wrote:  I have managed to get cinema experience to work but in order for it to play my intro i have to go movie infor then click cinima play. Is this the way everyone else is doing it or does it auto lauch when you click the video. ? I am using eden on windows 7 64x running neon skin.

There are two main ways of starting Cinema Experience. Most skins have the option to start Cinema Experience via the Info window(tried and true way since the script was first created).

Some skins have the option of starting from the Home Window, some what doing what you want, but not exactly. This method was first included to allow multiple movies to be queued up(ie a Double/Multi Feature, with intermission videos) This method allows the number of features to be set from 1 to 5. It requires the movie to be Queued for the script to start.

I think one of the Cirrus skin versions has the option of triggering it from the Context Menu while in the Movies Node.

Also one of the Web Interface Addons(AWX) allows triggering of Cinema Experience from the movie info page.


I would love to be able to capture the Play/Select options when on the Movie Node, but have yet to find out how to do so, but let the rest of the controls(Up/Down/Left/Right/etc.) to pass thru.(one day maybe)

Thanks for your reply its hard to find infomation on how to use cinema experience or at least i have found so. So take away message is if i am using Aeon or Night skin the easiest way to use cinema experience is to just go though infomation ?

(2012-05-12 10:41)dildotron2000 Wrote:  

(2012-05-11 18:21)giftie Wrote:  

(2012-05-11 08:15)dildotron2000 Wrote:  I have managed to get cinema experience to work but in order for it to play my intro i have to go movie infor then click cinima play. Is this the way everyone else is doing it or does it auto lauch when you click the video. ? I am using eden on windows 7 64x running neon skin.

There are two main ways of starting Cinema Experience. Most skins have the option to start Cinema Experience via the Info window(tried and true way since the script was first created).

Some skins have the option of starting from the Home Window, some what doing what you want, but not exactly. This method was first included to allow multiple movies to be queued up(ie a Double/Multi Feature, with intermission videos) This method allows the number of features to be set from 1 to 5. It requires the movie to be Queued for the script to start.

I think one of the Cirrus skin versions has the option of triggering it from the Context Menu while in the Movies Node.

Also one of the Web Interface Addons(AWX) allows triggering of Cinema Experience from the movie info page.


I would love to be able to capture the Play/Select options when on the Movie Node, but have yet to find out how to do so, but let the rest of the controls(Up/Down/Left/Right/etc.) to pass thru.(one day maybe)

Thanks for your reply its hard to find infomation on how to use cinema experience or at least i have found so. So take away message is if i am using Aeon or Night skin the easiest way to use cinema experience is to just go though infomation ?

A lot of this information is available on the first page of this thread. It's tough for the developer(me, etc) to keep up with which skins use all the functions that Cinema Experience provides.

Night has not has a lot of updates, so the only way that the skin activates Cinema Experience from the Info screen.
'Aeon' really represents about 4 different skins, crerated by 4 different developers, so knowing which one does help out...

Having a problem...

I finally got Cinema Experience setup with videos and slides. Everything seems to be working as it should except after the feature presentation intro video it is supposed to go to the movie I selected to watch. It doesn't it just exits back out to the home screen. (I have turned off rating, audio and count down videos)

Is there something I'm missing. I'm activating cinema from the info page.

I'm running the latest stable build of XBMC. On AppleTV1. Using Quartz skin.

(2012-05-12 18:49)itstonye Wrote:  Having a problem...

I finally got Cinema Experience setup with videos and slides. Everything seems to be working as it should except after the feature presentation intro video it is supposed to go to the movie I selected to watch. It doesn't it just exits back out to the home screen. (I have turned off rating, audio and count down videos)

Is there something I'm missing. I'm activating cinema from the info page.

I'm running the latest stable build of XBMC. On AppleTV1. Using Quartz skin.

Are you using the version from this thread or the Dharma version from the repo?

(2012-05-12 19:15)giftie Wrote:  

(2012-05-12 18:49)itstonye Wrote:  Having a problem...

I finally got Cinema Experience setup with videos and slides. Everything seems to be working as it should except after the feature presentation intro video it is supposed to go to the movie I selected to watch. It doesn't it just exits back out to the home screen. (I have turned off rating, audio and count down videos)

Is there something I'm missing. I'm activating cinema from the info page.

I'm running the latest stable build of XBMC. On AppleTV1. Using Quartz skin.

Are you using the version from this thread or the Dharma version from the repo?

Cinema Experience 1.0.46 from repo

(2012-05-12 19:25)itstonye Wrote:  

(2012-05-12 19:15)giftie Wrote:  

(2012-05-12 18:49)itstonye Wrote:  Having a problem...

I finally got Cinema Experience setup with videos and slides. Everything seems to be working as it should except after the feature presentation intro video it is supposed to go to the movie I selected to watch. It doesn't it just exits back out to the home screen. (I have turned off rating, audio and count down videos)

Is there something I'm missing. I'm activating cinema from the info page.

I'm running the latest stable build of XBMC. On AppleTV1. Using Quartz skin.

Are you using the version from this thread or the Dharma version from the repo?

Cinema Experience 1.0.46 from repo

Download the Eden version from the first page and give it a try.

(2012-05-12 19:27)giftie Wrote:  

(2012-05-12 19:25)itstonye Wrote:  

(2012-05-12 19:15)giftie Wrote:  Are you using the version from this thread or the Dharma version from the repo?

Cinema Experience 1.0.46 from repo

Download the Eden version from the first page and give it a try.

Everything works beautifully. Thanks.

There seems to be a bug when XBMC is set to automatically change the refresh rate of the display based on the video selected. When I play a video in "cinema mode," XBMC seems to completely disregard the refresh rate of the video and does not change it. Most of the movies I watch while using the plugin are in 24p, along with the trailers that play before it and the feature presentation video intro, but it the display just remains at 60hz when I use Cinema Experience. Is there an easy way to fix this in the plugin? If not, I'll have to change the default display mode on my Mac Mini to output at 24hz. That way it'll change when I watch TV shows at 30p and stay on 24hz when I use Cinema Experience. Only problem with that is I watch TV shows on my Mac far more often than movies, so the display will be switching all the time.