My Movies 3 released.

[pclausen]

Originally Posted by davdev

Can I just import the XML files I already have into MyMovies? I would prefer not to build them again. This is vital for TV shows where I have metadata for each individual episode.

+1. And once this is imported into CM, be able to upload this to the web service. This would make quick work of adding TV episode content for the MM web service for all to use.

[Binnerup]

Originally Posted by davdev

Can I just import the XML files I already have into MyMovies? I would prefer not to build them again. This is vital for TV shows where I have metadata for each individual episode.

This is the problematic part. My Movies sees the mymovies.xml files as internal files of My Movies they were originally created as, and not something other programs can create.

Since MediaBrowser was able to read these files to read meta-data from My Movies, MetaBrowser started creating them - we have tried to solve the situation with MetaBrowser and MediaBrowser by getting them to have their own files, but unfortunately Sam was not helpfull, even though it would have been an easy change to have an own filename. We will try once again to get this situation resolved, if not successfull, we will consider what next step will be. The file naming and structure is without a doubt originally created by My Movies, and therefore the structure is, although not complicated our intellectual property.

My Movies will NOT read mymovies.xml files stored by other programs - they are considered by My Movies to be internal files.

[Binnerup]

Originally Posted by dbone1026

Since currently MM3 is not set up ideally for individual TV episodes I would exclude them from the MM folder monitoring (that is what I did, I only included my movies folders). This will keep any metadata you have for your tv episodes untouched.

Yes, you should not point My Movies monitoring to TV show folders as the monitoring will handle them as movie folders.

[Binnerup]

Originally Posted by pclausen

+1. And once this is imported into CM, be able to upload this to the web service. This would make quick work of adding TV episode content for the MM web service for all to use.

Once integrated, My Movies will handle it internally - My Movies will not get to read mymovies.xml files from other programs - we will do all we can to get these programs to use other namings.

[dbone1026]

Originally Posted by davdev

Thanks, right now I use MediaBrowser and I am happy with it, but I still want to try this out, but I don't want to negatively impact MB to do so

From what I could tell briefly looking at the metadata only a few fields get killed that metabrowser uses (TMDb ID, Rating, and MPAA Rating). I created a mymovies.xml with MM3 and then opened that xml with metabrowser to see what fields were now missing. I don't think these fields missing will cause any major issues in MB. Ideally MM3 would continue to create mymovies.xml and Media Browser would create mediabrowser.xml so any issues could be avoided.

[Binnerup]

Originally Posted by dbone1026

Ideally MM3 would continue to create mymovies.xml and Media Browser would create mediabrowser.xml so any issues could be avoided.

This is the suggestion we have come up with, but unfortunately Sam have not been interested in finding a solution.

[davdev]

Originally Posted by Binnerup

This is the problematic part. My Movies sees the mymovies.xml files as internal files of My Movies they were originally created as, and not something other programs can create.

Since MediaBrowser was able to read these files to read meta-data from My Movies, MetaBrowser started creating them - we have tried to solve the situation with MetaBrowser and MediaBrowser by getting them to have their own files, but unfortunately Sam was not helpfull, even though it would have been an easy change to have an own filename. We will try once again to get this situation resolved, if not successfull, we will consider what next step will be. The file naming and structure is without a doubt originally created by My Movies, and therefore the structure is, although not complicated our intellectual property.

My Movies will NOT read mymovies.xml files stored by other programs - they are considered by My Movies to be internal files.

Thanks Brian, I always wondered why MB used an xml called MyMovies. Now it makes sense. Basically what it comes down to though, is MyMovies will be able to read the XML's I currently have, it just may change them a bit. That is OK by me, I just don't want to have to go in and reload 400 movies. If I can just set up the folder watching to pull these in, it will be fine.

I will just avoid setting up my TV folders for now

[Binnerup]

Originally Posted by davdev

Basically what it comes down to though, is MyMovies will be able to read the XML's I currently have, it just may change them a bit.

This is not correct - if you configure monitoring to monitor a folder with what My Movies sees as invalid files, it will re-index and re-create the files.

This is required for My Movies to be able to maintain it's internal feature set.

[davdev]

Originally Posted by Binnerup

This is not correct - if you configure monitoring to monitor a folder with what My Movies sees as invalid files, it will re-index and re-create the files.

This is required for My Movies to be able to maintain it's internal feature set.

OK, is there a way at least to get My Movies to use my folder.jpg's? I prefer getting One Sheet style posters instead of DVD Cover art. Can MyMovies read these, or will it change them to what is preloaded in the MM database?

[Killroy™]

Brian,

I want to double-check on something. Can the stand-alone Collection Management be installed and run the database in a non-MCE XP Pro as long as the clients are installed into a MCE version of XP, Vista, or Win7?

[Binnerup]

Originally Posted by davdev

OK, is there a way at least to get My Movies to use my folder.jpg's? I prefer getting One Sheet style posters instead of DVD Cover art. Can MyMovies read these, or will it change them to what is preloaded in the MM database?

There aren't no - My Movies handles all it's meta-data internally, this is also what ensures that you can get automatic updates, ect.

It is planned that you later can switch to display movie posters instead of DVD covers - users have for some months now been able to contribute poster to our database.

[Binnerup]

Originally Posted by Killroy™

I want to double-check on something. Can the stand-alone Collection Management be installed and run the database in a non-MCE XP Pro as long as the clients are installed into a MCE version of XP, Vista, or Win7?

Yes.

[Killroy™]

Brian,

MM3 works great. It is nice not having to update my server to an MCE OS and still be able to have the Collection Management on it running instead of having it running on the Vista HTPC.

It boots up super quick and all the new features work great. Thanks for all the new toys.

The only thing I ask is that you don't forget to update support for the HDi Dunes that are coming out next month. I so want to use MyMovies with the new Dune Prime 3.0.

[Artslinger]

First time using MyMovies and MM3 looks and works great. Everything worked perfect after the quick and easy install.

The Collection Management software is perfect for my use, love the barcode search so I was able to find data for most all my obscure titles.

I am having one small issue with a slight shifting when selecting movie menu items, maybe it has something to do with my ISO rips. I will go over to the MM forums to see if I can find a solution.

Great work!

[barkman]

I can't get mkv files to play, i have total media theatre 3 installed, but will not play, worked good with my movies 2.52
anyone else have this problem?

[Killroy™]

Took me a while to figure it out too. Make sure you have the correct path to your external player in the external player XML. Mine was not the same as the default.

[barkman]

I cant find a option there for mkv, unless i am missing something.

[Killroy™]

At the bottom of external players there is an add box. Add mkv and pick your external player or use MCE.

[Paul E. Fox, II]

Originally Posted by Binnerup

Hi all,

My Movies 3 have now been released on our website http://www.mymovies.dk for Windows Vista and Windows 7 Media Center.

Some screenshots are available here: http://www.mymovies.dk/products/wind...ia-center.aspx.

I am sure that there will be reviews posted on various sites that will be able to give you an independed walk through of the program.

Basic functionality is free, while some features quires an amount of points on your account.

Feel free to most any questions you have regarding My Movies 3, and I will try to answer best possible.





Below is a list of questions and answers that may help new users.

1. Are PowerDVD/TMT considered external players. Launching BD iso used to be free in MM2. I'm wondering if this is still true. Blu-ray and HD DVD players are not considered external players, and can be used freely without any point requirement.

2. I really can't use it until it supports TV shows. You can use the current functionality to index TV shows also, using Series/Box set feature, multi-disc feature and personal categories, but it requires manual work creating the meta-data if the TV show is not released on a DVD in our database. Automatic indexing of TV shows with meta-data is planned for a future release.

3. How much will it cost me to be able to use an external player? External players (expect HD DVD and Blu-ray) requires 1250 points. You can create a free 21-day trial if you would like to contribute data to get the points, but if 1250 points should be purchased, it equals $50 ($1 per 25 points).

Best regards,

Brian Binnerup

Originally Posted by Paul E. Fox, II

In regard to number 3, what would be considered an external player if PowerDVD and TMT are not.

Just a little confused but interested none the less.

Originally Posted by Binnerup

PowerDVD 9 and TotalMedia Theatre 3 have what is described as "integrated" players that are add-ons to Media Center more than an actual external player.

Other external players would be TheaterTek, Media Player Classic, VLC, ect. ect.

Ok...so I just installed the program and got it all working but when I try to set the External Player for .ISO rips to TMT3 it replies that I don't have enough "points". I thought that was addressed earlier. Did I miss something in what I was reading above?

[Binnerup]

Originally Posted by Paul E. Fox, II

Ok...so I just installed the program and got it all working but when I try to set the External Player for .ISO rips to TMT3 it replies that I don't have enough "points". I thought that was addressed earlier. Did I miss something in what I was reading above?

That is because you are incorrectly adding them as an extention to be handled.

ISO files are mounted, and when mounting, Media Center's autoplay kicks in, and automatically launch TMT3's own integration.

You do not need to (and should not) use the external player integrations for this job.

[Paul E. Fox, II]

K...

Still, they're in the collection and when I try to play a given movie back...it states that it's "located on an offline disc". Not sure what I'm doing wrong here...

[Killroy™]

Brian,

I have the CM installed on a XP Pro SP3 (fully updated) with a network name of MEDIASERVER. I have all my drives nested as NTFS folders on a root folder of c:\movies\ each on a folder named #001-#026. I connect to the CM via Vista clients and have been updating the database with the clients since the server is in another room.

But when I went to the XP server itself and tried to update one of my folders (drives) I used the method of going to Network--->MEDIASERVER--->movies picking the folder (drive) that I wanted updated (in this case \\MEDIASERVER\movies\#001) but this is where the XP CM did something interesting. Instead of picking the networked share it went back to c:\movies\#001 as the folder selected. No matter what I tried I could not get XP CM to pick the network share.

From the wiki:

When linking to your shared movies from within My Movies, or when configuring folder monitoring to monitor a file system, it is important to point My Movies to the shared part of the file system. If on the server machine you have movies in "D:\Movies", and, you have created a share for this folder called "Movies", then you must link your titles to "\\servername\Movies" instead of "D:\Movies" - when using the browse dialog, you can do this by browsing to your local network instead of your local files. Similarly, with the folder monitoring configuration, the monitored folder must be the shared folder, and not the local directory - the reason for this is that the local directory will only be visible from the server machine itself, whereas the shared folders will be visible on both the host machine and on the clients. If you fail to configure this correctly, My Movies will prompt you about the location not being found when you try to play your titles from a client machine.

If I update via the Vista client I can select \\MEDIASERVER\movies\#001 and it will select it with no problems. When I had the CM on my old Vista machine I had to select the network share for it to work....just like the wiki said to do (see above quote).

Will there be an issue if I allow the XP CM pick the actual folder location instead of the network share location?

[Binnerup]

Originally Posted by Paul E. Fox, II

Still, they're in the collection and when I try to play a given movie back...it states that it's "located on an offline disc". Not sure what I'm doing wrong here...

Then you have added them as "Offline" titles, instead of "Online" titles pointed to a folder.

You must tell the program in which folder your title is in. After having added an "Offline" title, then you can use the "Discs" editing dialog to change the location.

[Binnerup]

Originally Posted by Killroy™

Will there be an issue if I allow the XP CM pick the actual folder location instead of the network share location?

This is due to the way you browse - I can't remember exactly the difference, but you can browse two ways down through the network - one changes the location to the local path, the other does not. This is something Windows does in it's dialog internally.

Try seing if you can locate the right way with that information.

[Killroy™]

Originally Posted by Binnerup

This is due to the way you browse - I can't remember exactly the difference, but you can browse two ways down through the network - one changes the location to the local path, the other does not. This is something Windows does in it's dialog internally.

Try seing if you can locate the right way with that information.

File--->IMPORT--->Folder content--->(opens window)NETWORK--->MEDIASERVER--->movies--->#001

But when I hit OK, it shows c:\movies\#001

[Binnerup]

Originally Posted by Killroy™

But when I hit OK, it shows c:\movies\#001

Yes, I think there is a seperate entry - I can't remember exactly, as it's been removed in Vista - but it might be named "Entire network" or similar.

[jdubbs23]

I thought that the Collection Management tool was going to be updated to add the ability to store fan-art backdrops. Is this functionality now included when I get MM3? I don't see anything on the website about it, so is it still something that is planned?

[Binnerup]

Originally Posted by jdubbs23

I thought that the Collection Management tool was going to be updated to add the ability to store fan-art backdrops. Is this functionality now included when I get MM3? I don't see anything on the website about it, so is it still something that is planned?

This option is in the MetaData Storage configuration page.

The actual contribution of backdrops is done though a website - there is a button called "Edit Movie Details Online".

[Paul E. Fox, II]

Originally Posted by Binnerup

Then you have added them as "Offline" titles, instead of "Online" titles pointed to a folder.

You must tell the program in which folder your title is in. After having added an "Offline" title, then you can use the "Discs" editing dialog to change the location.

Thanks for the tip...I'll see if I can figure out where to make the change and try that out.

[Derek K.]

Originally Posted by Binnerup

That is because you are incorrectly adding them as an extention to be handled.

ISO files are mounted, and when mounting, Media Center's autoplay kicks in, and automatically launch TMT3's own integration.

You do not need to (and should not) use the external player integrations for this job.

I started watching a few bd isos this weekend. when I press play on a bd movie, the play dvd box pops up and I have to press enter to start it. very annoying.

mm2 just launched pdvd without any further action on my part. is this something that is configurable?