https://github.com/giacy86/plex-preroll-trailers

Simple and rough set of python script that download trailers for the upcoming/now playing movies in theathers and show it as a preroll video before watch movies in Plex.
https://github.com/giacy86/plex-preroll-trailers

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Simple and rough set of python script that download trailers for the upcoming/now playing movies in theathers and show it as a preroll video before watch movies in Plex.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/giacy86/plex-preroll-trailers
• Owner: giacy86
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2018-04-24T19:07:49.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-04-15T06:20:47.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-06-12T07:14:21.637Z (3 months ago)
• Language: Python
• Size: 24.4 KB
• Stars: 7
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 6
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Plex-Preroll-Trailers

Simple and rough set of python script that download trailers for the upcoming/now playing movies in theaters

and show it as a preroll video before watch movies in Plex.

## Why

For having a theaters-like experience when watching movies in Plex at home.

## Requirements

The heart of the scripts is written in python, so they can work on all platform that have python installed. However there are 2 bash script for Linux/Ubuntu, but they are so simple that can be adapted for other OS.

 - Python 2.x

 - [tmdbsimple](https://github.com/celiao/tmdbsimple/blob/master/README.rst)

```

pip install tmdbsimple

```

 - TheMovieDB API key

 - [youtube-dl](https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/master/README.md#installation)

```

sudo -H pip install --upgrade youtube-dl

```

 - FFmpeg

## How it works

The script ***download_preroll_trailers.py*** connect to TheMovieDB.org, select a user defined numbers of movies that, for your country, **are in theaters or are upcoming**, orders them by popularity and **download from YouTube** the **trailers** associated (retrieved from TheMovieDB API), write a JSON file with the filenames of the downloaded trailers.

The script ***mix_preroll_trailers.py*** load from the JSON file the filenames of the downloaded trailers, select randomly a user defined number of trailers to play within Plex and create a text file with the selected number of videos.

The script ***concat_preroll_trailers.sh***  takes the chosen videos from the text file and merge them with FFmpeg.

The script ***download_preroll_trailers.sh*** simply remove the old downloaded videos and execute the *download_preroll_trailers.py*.

## Settings

Edit the *config.ini* file, see comments in file.

## Usage

- *Clone* and *cd* to the repository directory

- `sudo chmod +x *.sh`

- ``` crontab -e ``` for add the bash scripts to *CRON*. Personally i use:

 `0 3 * * fri path/to/download_preroll_trailers.sh  # once a week download trailers`

 `30 3 * * * /path/to/concat_preroll_trailers.sh     # once a day mix the trailers that will be played into Plex.`

- Go to *Plex Settings > Server > Extras* click on the *Show Advanced* and into *"Cinema Trailers pre-roll video"* set */path/to/plex-preroll-trailers/preroll_trailers.mp4*

- Enable in the Plex clients the option to show trailer.