Media Browser: Great alternative to DVD Library/My Movies/Movie Collector - Page 3

I used TV Scout. It's really easy to use, it gathers all the metadata and covers/banners from thetvdb.com.

I downloaded TVScount and got all my TV Series fixed up. Man, this is really awesome.

I also downloaded Salamis Movie Organizer and got it working. One question though, how do I get my Blu-ray/HD-DVD cover art to include the blue/red surrounds like MyMovies does? I noticed in politby's screen shot of SMO that the movie cover there does include the red HD-DVD case cover.

It would be nice to be able to tell which titles are DVD, HD-DVD and BD. With MyMovies, when you add a movie by title, you define if the movie is DVD, Blu-ray or HD-DVD, something similar would be fantastic. Alternatively, what would be the easiest way to ensure that you get the BD/HD-DVD cover art instead of the DVD cover art every time which seems to be the case when using imdb?

I think I'm just about to drop MyMovies for good and never look back. This plugin is awesome and fast, even with my ~1400 movie collection.

so if i have Mmovies installed now, should i just install this also or do i have to remove mm from my system first?

You do not have to uninstall MM at all if you don't want to. I used both for a while. The two are independent of each other and video/media browser will make use of the metadata that MM already collected.

same problem here running vista 32bit, suggestions anyone?

Ah, got it.

For now I went ahead and let MyMovies populate all my HD movie folders since that app already contained the correct cover art.

On a slightly off-topic note, what are you using to create .mkv files for each episode from a DVD? I'm still using PgcDemux to rip out the individual episodes and then I use mkvmerge to assemble the .mkvs. It is a real pain and it took me forever to do long series like Star Trek TNG and DS9 this way.

another question is i have iso backup of my blu ray movies, is it possible to get coverart for them to show up without having a folder for each iso?

I believe the answer is no. I had a couple hundred .mkv files of my ripped Blu-ray movies sitting in a single folder. I created a folder for each and dropped them into it. I now have cover art and metadata within each folder.

Actually with the latest version it does get coverart and movie info without a folder for .mkv files. I am not certain if it would do this for .iso's. Worth a try.

How did you get what the show is about. I have the metdata for Hogan's Heroes episodes but can't get the metadata to show up for what Hogan's Heroes was about. Meaning this metadata.

I just installed 2040 version and it looks like it's downloading updates without tvscout. Great plugin i must say!

I have noticed this too. Unfortunately, it's not always pulling English language sub-banners (the banners when you go into a particular season for a TV series) and cover art. Some of my Battlestar Galactica sub-banners are in Spanish, and some of my TNG covers are in German, and Season 1 of Weeds is in Japaneese! TVScout is not immune to this issue either, despite being configured with English as the language.

Since some of these graphics are embedded within the plug-in, there doesn't seem to be a way to correct it. I have also found that when I replace a folder.jpg image for a particular season, the plug-in doesn't pick it up, even if I clear the cache. I have to uninstall and re-install the plug-in to force it to pick up the new cover art.

Those minor issues aside (this is beta after all), this is probably the best plug-in I have ever tried. I just love how it pulls in unique background images for each season for TV series as well as for each movie title!

Ok i installed the program but when it does the initial scan it finds nothing. I am using Mmovies and have about 20 files on my drive which show and play in MM. What am i doing wrong?..I dont have the other two programs that are listed installed.
thanks

Did you change the initial location to the parent folder that contains all your movies?

Thanks. I'll check it out. I'm not looking to re-encode my DVDs, just extract each MPEG2 episode and put it in a .mkv container.

Also, I downloaded the genre icons you linked to and dropped them all into:

C:\\ProgramData\\MediaBrowser\\GenreImages\\

However, I'm still getting the generic folder icons when in genre view. Is there something else I need to configure?

Thanks

Hey, since you already have it setup, is it possible for you to zip up and post the ImagesByName folder so others don't have to create each folder and rename the images to folder.jpg.

And yes, Sam's server is down, so the website is not accessible

Thanks

The bbs has been done for like a week by my count. Too bad, I wanted to lavish praise upon them for the latest media browser build.

Ok working now, it even launched Powerdvd for my blu ray. sweet.

Oh in movie organizer it asks for path for saving movie genre folder..where do i want that to be?

Thanks, that did the trick!

I had to rename my "mystery" folder to "crime" and drop the "s" from the "classics" and "sports" folders.

This leaves me with the following genres with no match:

Mystery
Martial Arts
Suspense/Thriller

I do have a "suspense" folder, but for obvious reasons Vista doesn't allow me to rename it to "suspense/thriller".

I have about 100 movies in the Suspense/Thriller genre. Do I need to go in and edit the xml for each to drop the "/thriller" from the genre? Is there an easier way?

Here you go:

http://www.cstone.net/~dk/ImagesByName.zip

Thanks, I'll check it out.

how do i make this thing play bluray folder rips? i have tmt installed.

Sam posted the other day over that TGB that his server crashed. He has a backup for everything but it is going to be down for a few days until he gets it back up

Well i cant say for sure but when i hit one of my blu rays it actually launched Powerdvd, which i had installed and played my file.

Eh? I'm guessing you have your blu-rays in ISO format and not folder stucture...?
I don't think they have the functionality right now to identify hd-dvd/blu-ray folder structures and launch a player

And it autolaunching powerdvd has to do your autoplay settings in vista and not Media Browser, as it does not launch any external player for you.