For some reason, my Z9X has stopped automatically playing trailers on the info screen. Checked settings (I have it auto-play after 3 seconds I think) and rebooted, but still nothing. Sidenote - When I actually click to play a trailer, any trailer, it has never worked (it just times out). I'm talking specifically here about the little trailer box on the movie info screen.
Online trailers have always been problematic because Google continually mess with their API to try and stop commercial companies using them. The problems also seem to be regionalised. The only 100% reliable way is to use local trailers.
Honestly, take some time and start to add local trailers - they work incredibly well, 100% of the time and you get to choose which trailer(s) you want and in what quality. It literally takes an extra minute to add a trailer when you've added a film.
Tiny Media Manager can help you (TMM) I can help you with most...but some you have to do by hand ( or add by hand)
I actually did try adding a few...for some reason, even local trailers aren't working! So there's definitely some weird issue going on which, would be the first real problem I've had since I got the unit. I'm still in love with this little thing and I've tried almost EVERYTHING Anyways, here's what I've done to add local trailers: Download either .mkv, .mov, add file to the movie folder, and change the filename to moviename.trailer Am I doing something wrong?
Ya, I had a face palm moment last night when I added John Wick Chapter 4 to HT4. But I noted that the trailers wouldn't play?... Zidoo kept saying that there were no compatible trailers! .. .but I had downloaded and put 3 of them in the folder for this title. Lo and behold, I forget to name the trailer including the year in the title like the movie actually was named! John Wick Chapter 4 (2023).mkv But the trailers were only John Wick Chapter 4-trailer-1.mov , etc. Doh!
