Show Short Films relevant to the Feature.

[Hadees 0]

Something I've been dreaming of for years is a way to play a short film or cartoon before a movie that is relevant to the film being shown.  For example before watching Saving Private Ryan I'd like to see one of Disney's war cartoons.  Now I know this is exceedingly difficult to do however I think it could be accomplished with some sort of tagging where you then match up the Feature with the appropriate short/cartoon tags.

One hiccup in this approach is Kodi doesn't currently allow tv episode level tagging and I would wager most people store their cartoons as tv shows.

I think a feature like this could be expanded so that every video bumper could use it and then you can say have a special Disney Feature Intro every time you play a Disney Movie.

[cirkator 8]

Afaik they are thinking about implementing this in the next development cycle

[Ragnarok 198]

That's correct. One of the major overhauls will be XML driven metadata for slides and the like. We could probably adopt it to video bumpers as well.

[Hadees 0]

That would be awesome, I'm not as big a fan of the trivia but the prospect of related shorts opens up all kinds of possibilities. 

[Rippmaster 30]

yeah. and seasonal content also. maby christmas bumper and christmas movie trivia during december.

 

this could be set in an crude almanac / calendar?

Edited November 24, 2015 by Rippmaster

[Ragnarok 198]

On 11/24/2015, 2:16:16, Rippmaster said:

yeah. and seasonal content also. maby christmas bumper and christmas movie trivia during december.

 

this could be set in an crude almanac / calendar?

That, too, is on the list! We'll need to figure out how to account for different holidays in different countries and for different religions, though. We haven't even begun to map that out yet.

[Rippmaster 30]

Ah, intresting. i did not eaven think about that. Seems like very hard work anyway.  guessing one would have to map out that on onselves. 

 

allthou, most western hollidays coincide. (christian calendar)

[Hadees 0]

I'm sure you could get a holiday database from somewhere and just use folder names corresponding to them.  Or maybe just do it with ical events?