Seems like everyone's releasing a trailer app these days :D

But before HD Movie Trailer Downloader was released I built a basic application to retrieve high quality (in most cases) trailers from the web. It was mainly designed for personal use but I've decided to make it available for general use.





If the resolution you specify is not available it will drop back through the resolutions until the highest available quality one is found (i.e if you specify 1080p and it's not available it will try 720p, then 480p and then the default resolution).

There's a rudimentary auto-download function as well, with the app attempting to match folder names in a specified directory with available trailers from the list and download the trailer into that directory.

You can download it here

Hi dgaust,

Great job, had a quick test here at work and downloaded a few trailers with no probs.

Will give the auto download feature a go later back at home.

Thanks a lot for posting your app,
Stu

Very fine tool !

Here http://thegreenbutton.com/forums/thread/341288.aspx you can find my opinion about the "HD MTD"-app from MediaPCTycoon...

Your 2 apps merged in one final tool (plus streaming for VMC) could be the perfect solution for all "trailer-lovers" using the Media Center...

Like i wrote in the other thread: Get in contact, stick your heads together and write a perfect application !!!! ;-) Synergy !

In your tool i also miss streaming and the option to show only the newest trailers NOT in alphabetical order...

Don't stop developing !!! ;-)

i downladed the application but i have trouble making work
I have a folder with files movietitle.avi
I want the application to find the movies and download the trailers...i change the "auto download"  top folder setting to point to my movies folder, i click on run, it says 2 movies found (this is correct) but nothing is displayed on the two lists or anything is downloaded.

any ideas ?

It matches against Folder names not video file names. So if your files are all in the one directory it won't work for you.

I am getting an error and cant use the program.

The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found.

I don't know if this is possible but I have a feature request that shouldn't be to hard to implement.
It won't match against any of my folders, though I have a mymovies.xml with relevant metadata in every folder. Could you implement optional matching againsta mymovies.xml in every folder?

<Title>
  <LocalTitle>Blade Runner</LocalTitle>
  <OriginalTitle>Blade Runner</OriginalTitle>

Otherwise seems like a great app

This is great...

... except it needs to either (a) read the movie title from the metadata or (b) strip out anything in parenthesis or comments from the folder name.

All of my movies (1,300+) are organized in individual folders with the year in parenthesis. Some folders have comments in brackets, per standard naming conventions.

Ex.:
E:\Movies\The Dark Knight (2008) [720p]
E:\Movies\A Bug's Life (1999)

etc.

I'd have to rename every single folder to get this to work. Any chance you throw a regex replacement at this?

In C# it would look like:

sNewFolder = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(sCurrentFolder, @"\(.*?\)", "").Trim();

And do the same for anything in brackets [ ].

Would be greatly appreciated so I can grab trailers too. Thanks!

I thought this was a plug-in, not a stand alone. Some guys at work just got Macs, and are showing off how the can view streaming trailers.

mmatheny:

I thought this was a plug-in, not a stand alone. Some guys at work just got Macs, and are showing off how the can view streaming trailers.

Next version of MediaBrowser is supposed to have streaming trailers built in. Right now you can get streaming trailers with XBMC or MediaPortal.

OK - is this app remote aware, i.e. can I control it with my remote? If so, I can call it from the Extras strip. Actually, just remembered I can probably program Intelliremote to control it when it is running!

 

psouza4:

This is great...

... except it needs to either (a) read the movie title from the metadata or (b) strip out anything in parenthesis or comments from the folder name.

All of my movies (1,300+) are organized in individual folders with the year in parenthesis. Some folders have comments in brackets, per standard naming conventions.

Ex.:
E:\Movies\The Dark Knight (2008) [720p]
E:\Movies\A Bug's Life (1999)

etc.

I'd have to rename every single folder to get this to work.

Nevermind, I have written support into Media Center Master to support this. I understand that this project is a personal solution for you and that you don't have the time or energy to fulfill everyone's needs.