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Trailers
deazo:
Whenever I want to see the trailer of a movie, I use the following Web search from within PVD:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%s+trailer&aq=f%u
95% of the times, the first video found on the youtube website is the trailer I was looking for, and Youtube is RICH in trailers.
Isn't there a way (I'm not sure how best this could be integrated into PVD's interface) that this could be used to quickly watch the trailer of any of the movies in the database?
I'm seeing an internal flash player that could play the trailer directly from PVD's interface?
Or a direct link to the streaming video (that would have been grabbed by some kind of youtube scraper) that would directly open in VLC or any other player able to play streaming videos?
I don't know I'm basically thinking of an improvement that would not require the opening of any browser to the youtube page.
Just an idea.
rick.ca:
--- Quote from: rick.ca on April 26, 2010, 07:58:57 pm ---As I've mentioned a number of times elsewhere, I hope the ability to display HTML is added at some point. It would be handy for importing and displaying entire pages of data that are already formatted appropriately, displaying actual search result pages, and just providing an embedded browsing capability. I don't know whether such a thing would be a separate window, a skin function for displaying a specified URL in a memo-like HTML field, or both...
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An embedded browser capability would allow the viewing of trailers and a variety of other things within PVD. How it would be integrated into the existing interface is an important question. Now that I think about it again, I suppose a separate window doesn't make much sense. We can do that with an external browser window now. It could be a panel below the info panel, with a splitter separating the two (just like the current list/info panel splitter). The splitter could include a toggle control for opening to 50% of the available height and closing it. That would allow you to pop it open to view a trailer or search results page, and then close it again. The ability to embed a web page or object within the skin is a cool idea, but I suspect that might be difficult to implement and use.
Another possibility for handling trailers is to download and save them "beside" the movie. That is, named the same as the movie file, with a suffix that places it before the movie. It and the movie would then be added to the file path, and both would play when Play is selected. If you just wanted to watch the trailer, you would stop the player after it had played the trailer. If you just wanted to view the movie, you would command your player to skip the trailer. I would do this myself, if it weren't for the difficulty in finding and downloading original trailers of consistent high quality. Watching a trailer within the interface is fine, but it's not a good substitute for a full screen trailer similar in quality to the movie itself.
Hyomil:
--- Quote from: deazo on August 12, 2010, 03:00:36 pm ---
Whenever I want to see the trailer of a movie, I use the following Web search from within PVD:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%s+trailer&aq=f%u
95% of the times, the first video found on the youtube website is the trailer I was looking for, and Youtube is RICH in trailers.
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My success rate is a bit lower. When Youtube fails, I use Google Video, which includes sites from many different countries. The challenge there, though, is that there are so many streaming sites now (for Chinese movies, anyway) that stream the entire movie that you can't find a single one that's just for the trailer. (You can sometimes tell by the duration of the video that's listed.) So I thought I'd add the word "trailer" to the search--the Chinese version of the word. The Google Translate translation of it didn't work, but I used Google Translate to translate a Youtube video where the text was all in Chinese and the word that translated to "trailer" was 預告片. Haven't had much luck with it so far, though.
Best other site for trailers I've found is http://www.videodetective.com And for saving them, the Video DownloadHelper addon for Firefox. With Youtube, it enables you to save them at different quality levels up to 1080p (where available). I would suggest saving the ones you really want to keep because videos frequently disappear from Youtube, whether because they're removed by the user because their account was deleted or for Terms of Service violation (which is particularly annoying when you're uploading a trailer that gives the movie free advertising).
I don't like watching trailers within the web browser either, in my case because there's tearing in the playback which I haven't been able to find the reason for yet. Youtube does have a fullscreen option, though, that's similar to a dedicated player like VLC, minus the ability to open in fullscreen by default. You can jump backward and forward with arrow left and right keys (though the distance is 10% rather than a fixed duration) and increase or decrease the volume with arrow up and down keys. And there's the "Always play HD when switching to fullscreen (when available)" option in Youtube's Playback Setup.
deazo:
My suggestion did not contain any "downloading trailer" suggestion because basically I really do not want to do that.
This would take a big amount of memory and really what I was after was only a way of watching a streaming video without having to open firefox (or any other browser).
This is why I suggested a kind of "scraper" (?) that would take the streaming link.
This link could be automatically recognized by a video player (say VLC or MPC) and played within it.
Also I guess this would eliminate the possibly heavy work needed from Nostra to build a browser within pvd... (i've seen this in Utorrent actually)
rick.ca:
If you had a trailer stream URL it could be launched in VLC using a PVD hyperlink. But I don't know how a YouTube stream could be hijacked from it's Flash player. Ironically, as Hyomil points out, it is possible to save them.
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