A Mac and Windows Movie Wallpaper GUI Generator for Media Players - Page 3

Done.

Version 0.44 remembers the enclosing folder's location along with user settings. Settings are now loaded automatically upon program startup and saved upon quitting.

Try v 0.44. The window is shorter and should a bit better for you.

Edit. Just noticed the Comcast server had an older build. Download 0.44 again now to get lastest.

Noticed some visual problems in 0.44 due to making the window shorter. Some text elements on the advanced pane were messed up by shrinking the window.

Grab 0.45 from the server now.

I'm afraid not. That would require my program to store and catalog the cover art and text for each movie - much more work than I can put into a quick, freebie tool.

The only thing you can do in that circumstance is to redo that particular film you wish to modify. You'd need to uncheck the "Show Only Unprocessed Folders" button so you can reselect the movie's folder for work.

I don't know.

The settings are in a file in your system's preferences folder. My suspicion is that a complete Windows reinstall could delete that folder, but I don't know one way or another.

Look inside C:\\Documents and Settings\\Owner\\Application Data

for tvix_gui_builder.pref

You could save that file somewhere and then restore it after reinstalling Windows.

Improved drag and drop support. Now you can drag an image from a web browser directly into the Rendering window without invoking the clipboard.

Dragging text into the synopsis text field appends the text to the existing text.

Dragging text into elsewhere in the main window REPLACES the existing synopsis and renders a preview.

Added to Advanced pane controls to select between Amazon, IMDB, or Walmart as place to begin web search.

Version 0.51 can directly obtain, format and place text and large cover art from Amazon. This can be batch automated or with manual intervention.

Turn on assisted procurement by selecting "Amazon Assisted" on the advanced pane. By default, the program will also show the Amazon product web page in a browser window, but you can suppress the browser display. Suppression remains in effect only during the current run session. This is intentional and is meant to encourage purchase of DVD's from Amazon.

Text and cover art are automatically added when you click on a movie in your movie folder list. Typically takes 15 to 20 seconds per movie folder. The rendering is saved automatically for you, but you can still edit the text and change the graphics and manually save your rendering.

Text is trimmed for you at sentence ends to fit in wallpaper.

Automated processing doesn't always get it right for each film. So, review the program's work and do this only on data you have backed up.

Automated batch processing is supported for up to 20 movies per user click.

Amazon Assisted, Suppress Browser, and Batch Process All Movies options must all be selected in the Advanced panel to enable batch processing. Once those are set, clicking on any film name will start automated processing.

When batch processing is active, only unprocessed folders will be listed. Turning off "Show only unprocessed folders" disables batch mode.

I have purposely limited the number the number of movie folders processed in a batch to avoid overloading the Amazon servers with large batch jobs. You can, of course, start another batch by clicking on another movie name.

It's been pretty nifty watching wallpapers get generated without user intervention. For the most part it appears to work, but keep an eye on the results as the program works.

If you wish to completely redo a folder which has already been processed, uncheck "Show only unprocessed folders" and you'll get access to folders which have already been "wallpaperized."

As for the first portion of your query, I can only provide a partial solution for already existing work. However, version 0.52 (just now up on server) saves the synopsis text and cover art for later reuse in later sessions. Two extra files are saved in each movie folder to accomplish this. (coverart.guikuo and synopsis.guikuo)

If "Use Local Text and Art" is on, the program will load the locally saved artwork and synopsis text. If no local data is loaded, the program will try to get it from the web.

(BTW, as a convenience, the search for local art will detect and use WIB-T folder.wig cover art that is present. However, my program will write out its own coverart.guikuo file to avoid interference. Also, I don't parse folder.wid files.)

As the program works with folders (indeed even works with EMPTY folders names as movies), I'm a bit lost as to what you were trying to get it to do with mkv files. For the program to work you have to have each mkv file INSIDE a folder like

Movie Title1\\Movie Title1.mkv
Movie Title2\\Movie Title2.mkv

The program does have a function for "Enclose Files in New Folders" to help arrange files so they are inside folders. That's about the only place where it explicitly works on files instead of folders, but I'm still not sure that is what you were trying to do.

I think that is due to the way I saved out the filepath in the older versions not getting along with the current builds. I thought I fixed that problem, but if you happen to have a preference file holding the old format filepath, it could be the reason you are seeing this problem.

Go grab yourself version 0.53, then before you launch the new version, try trashing the file "tvix_gui_builder.pref"

It's inside your library/preferences/