Edit Movie - Trailer URL "connection lost (-17)"

Channels DVR Server
#1

Hello,

I've recorded a couple of movies & noticed under "edit metadata" you can add a trailer URL. Ive entered a YouTube URL into the "Trailer URL" field for Lethal Weapon 3 & when I try to play this trailer on Channels DVR app on Amazon Firestick, I get an error - "connection lost (-17)?

Channels DVR server is running on a Synology NAS, if that makes any difference?

Can you help?

Thanks.

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#2

The trailer URL field will only work with a link to an actual movie file (like one that ends in an .mp4 or .mov suffix.) It doesn’t work with a video embedded inside a YouTube page.

#3

Oh... gutted. I thought this was an option to link to YouTube etc :frowning:

#4

Latest pre-release adds a tooltip to try to explain this:

#5

Ok cool. Thanks.

Do you think in the future the option to add movie trailers via YouTube URLs etc will be possible?

#6

I'd never say never, but it certainly feels unlikely, otherwise this thread would've played out differently... but in the meantime, I can say, that the embedded .mp4's and .mov's I've found freely available over on https://trailers.apple.com work quite well now in the Trailer URL field. Apple Trailers doesn't include everything YouTube does, and the interface is oddly dated, but it has a lot.

This Chrome extension is also quite useful in this context, makes it easy to identify the URL to copy and paste: Live Stream Downloader - Chrome Web Store

#7

Thank you mate. Appreciate that.

The URL option under the edit movie metadata section seems odd to me, when you can download trailers & put them into a local folder with the movie file. I would have thought the URL option was additional / another option to having locally stored movie trailers, allowing links to YouTube, Apple video etc. That feature would be pretty good.

#8

Normal YouTube URLs are now supported in the tvOS and iOS version as of the latest TestFlight beta. You can simply copy and paste a link to a YouTube video into a movie's Trailer URL field, and it will play back.

You will need both the latest tvOS/iOS version and the latest pre-release Channels DVR Server.

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#9

Nice, just have to wait until the update is rolled out onto FireTV :slight_smile:

Thanks again for your support!