Objective: To display trailers, intros, etc. before playing a movie.
There's been a lot of talk about something like this in the past, I thought I'd try and come up with a cohesive/complete-ish idea.
What I am picturing is, if you have Showtime enabled, a new entry in the roller called "Showtime" (or whatever name people think is good) that would look like this.
You'd still have the Watch option which would simply play the selected movie. If you chose Showtime, it would play your pre-show selected files followed by your movie. I envision something like this in the settings.
When you click Customize Showtime you'd get a pop-up that looks something like this.
This would be where you can choose what you want to show before the movie.
Examples would be Playlists. Say you have your trailers in a playlist, you could choose your playlist and be good to go. After typing that and after making my images I realize that maybe a shuffle option would be nice as well. Another way to use Playlists would be to make a playlist of images. I have lots of images that are movie trivia, like you see at the theaters, they look like this
Example 1,
Example 2Then there could be choices using the Media Subtype, or keywords, or whatever fields, where we could customize what gets played using rules/drop downs. Possibly even expressions.
I have lots and lots of fun pre-show stuff that I never really get to use that could be put to great use with a feature like this. I'd be happy to share as well, here are some of the kind of things I am talking about.
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Anyway, thank you for your consideration and feedback welcome.