Just a heads up on the upcoming 2.4 release of TheaterTek.
This version adds improved IP control capabilities for the home automation software, including CQC, MainLobby, Girder etc.
The network browser has also been re-written. TT now does a complete network search for shared drives, rather than relying on the My Network Places icons which have always been problematic. As all shared drives/folders show up in the search there's an easy way to tell TT that a drive should not be shown in the browser.
And, something a lot of you have wanted for some time. 2.4 supports a more full-featured playlist capability including the ability to use trailers.
There are General tab options to specify when a trailer can be played, and the new XML formatted playlist allows a playlist called trailers.plt to be put in the TT Data folder. Example, create a playlist called trailers.plt and put it in the Data folder, then specify that trailers should be played on file open or disk insert, and TT will use the playlist file.
New capabilities allow you to Shuffle your playlist, add an entire folder of files, or specify 'n' random files from a folder. In a nutshell, it's really easy to create a playlist that does the following:
Plays an intro file
Play 4 random images, slideshow style, filtered on jpg files from a certain folder
Play 2 random trailers from your Trailers folder
Start the movie
2.4 will be out fairly shortly once it's run through a few more internal tests, and again it's free to 2.x owners.
Andrew
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