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My Movies 1.55 for Media Center released!

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Hi all,


A new "My Movies" release 1.55 is now available at http://www.mymovies.name .


Before mentioning the specifics about this release, I would like to thank all who voted for "My Movies" at "The Media Center Show Awards", resulting in "My Movies" winning both of the categories it was nominated in; "Best overall application for Windows Media Center", and "Best free non-commercial application for Windows Media Center". Winning these categories really means a lot to me! For those of you who do not know "The Media Center Show", it is a podcast presented by Ian Dixon, who each week put out a great show. I am shortly featured on the show this week, and I will do a full show with Ian Dixon late January. Check out the show here http://www.thepodcastnetwork.com/mediacenter/ .


To the headlines of this 1.55 release, the full list is very long, so I won't post that as I normally do:


- Chinese and Czech languages added.

- A new German data loader (OFDb.de), thanks to Sven who developed this.

- New registry keys for the advanced user to configure both DVD Copy folders and some interface things.

- New triple tab implementation.

- Better implementation of Page Up/Page Down/Home/End keys on list overviews.

- A lot of other small improvements and fixes.


The full changelog can be seen here: http://www.mymovies.name/downloads/changelog.aspx


I hope you will enjoy this release - I really hope this will be the last release before "My Movies 2", which I am still working on. "My Movies 2" will feature a new database layout with a lot of new possibilities, and it will have a full replacement for "Edit collection".


Merry christmas and a happy new year to all of you (and look out for your fingers)!


Regards,


Brian Binnerup
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Thanks Brian - this is by far my favorite MCE app. I did vote for you on Ian's site by the way.

One question for you - will you at some point in the future allow for some kind of category menu prior to showing all the movies. For example I would like to keep my daughter's DVD's separate from the rest of my movies while still using your application as the main interface. Same goes for TV series. Maybe something like this:


Movies

TV Series

Kids


Or a category tag of some kind in the initial stage of adding the movie to the database? Then on the side menu you could select TV series and all DVD's tagged as TV series would show. Maybe this already exists and I just missed it? Thanks for putting out this great application.
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One more question - I have a Media Center PC which I use to play some DVD's locally using My Movies but the bulk of my DVD's are on another Media Center PC which I use as a DVD server. I see you have a document on your site that helps me on setting up the DVD server part. I'm guessing I have to have all the movies ripped to one central PC for sharing to my other PC's. Guess I will just move the drive I store my video TS files on to my DVD server and set that as a center point. I was hoping to be able to keep some local files on my HTPC so that the DVD server wouldn't have to be turned on all the time. Again let's say my daughter's DVD's would be local but the rest of my collection would be on the server. Is there anyway to accomplish having both a local and server database of different movies?
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Wicked! Methinks it's time to jump on the MyMovies bandwagon. :) Thanks Brian!
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Originally Posted by S1DIMMER
One question for you - will you at some point in the future allow for some kind of category menu prior to showing all the movies. For example I would like to keep my daughter's DVD's separate from the rest of my movies while still using your application as the main interface.
The planned "My Movies 2" will hold an option to create Personal Categories, Series/Box set and multiple disc titles.


For your daughter you should look at the "Parental Control Restriction" functionalities.


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Brian
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Is there anyway to accomplish having both a local and server database of different movies?
Yes, you can have both locally stored DVD's and ones stoed on UNC paths - but notice that you can see all the titles on all clients no matter how they are stored - the local ones will if you try to watch them from a client that does not have access to the drive, simply display "Cannot locate folder."


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Brian
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Thanks Brian I look forward to My Movies 2.

I was taking a look at the installation instructions for multizones. Like I said I have a DVD server which will hold the majority of the movies but then there is my HTPC which will have a select few movie rips which I'd want to access while the DVD server is off. In the install instructions it basically says to point My Movies on the HTPC to use the movie database which I create on the DVD server. If I do this and the DVD server is turned off then I will not have a database to use? Is this correct?


The second part I'm not sure of is UNC path. I kind of get that this is a shared drive or folder. How do I set the DVD server to use this UNC path if the files are stored locally on the DVD server? I guess I'm just not to clear on how to setup the UNC path.


Thanks for your time.


Ok I think I get the UNC thing now. When setting up the database on my DVD server, rather than just mapping to the local shared movie folder I should go through My Network Places-> Entire Network-> Microsoft Windows Network and so on until I find the movie. This creates the DVD server UNC path I would need. Am I correct?
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S1DIMMER: Off cause you need to have your database located on a location that all clients can access all the time - if you don't have that, you need to have individual databases. Basically "My Movies" does not care if the database is located on a NAS server, on a MCE pc, or where it is located, as long as all clients can access the database at all times.


When you whish to store a movie with it's UNC path, even though you edit on the PC where the UNC path relates to a local drive, you must do it in a specific way for the open folder dialogue not to "translate" the path back to the local path. There is a good post on how this is done here:

http://www.mymovies.name/mce/forum/D...?g=posts&t=961


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Thanks Brian. I read that thread and I did have the UNC paths set correctly. I'm good with that now.


My only issue would be the best way to have the database live on both PC's - this way when the DVD server is off I can access the movies I have locally on my HTPC. Right now I've been using the My Video's section in MCE to store my daughter's DVD rips. It works but it's not as nice as the My Movies plugin. I think there are a couple of solutions to my problem above:


Create the database on the DVD server using all UNC paths then rather than pointing the HTPC to the database on the DVD server, just make a copy of the database on the DVD server and paste it locally on the HTPC. Pointing My Movies to use the local database. That's not ideal for ease of use but I think it would work as I don't want to leave my DVD server on 24/7.


The other option would be to purchase a NAS storage external drive that would always be on and point all PC's to use the My Movies database stored on the NAS storage solution. That could work right as long as the database is creating using all UNC paths? I do realize that the movies on my DVD server wouldn't be useable while the DVD server is off.
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A third option would be to put the "my movies" database on the pc that you use to play your daughters movies, if you leave that one on all the time (or put the database on any other pc on your network that is always on)
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Brian, I LOVE MyMovies, definitely one of the best apps I've used this year.


Just curious if you've been able to make any progress on the Xbox 360 capability to play full .vobs with menus?


THANKS for all your fantastic work, look forward to version 2
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Originally Posted by S1DIMMER
Create the database on the DVD server using all UNC paths then rather than pointing the HTPC to the database on the DVD server, just make a copy of the database on the DVD server and paste it locally on the HTPC. Pointing My Movies to use the local database. That's not ideal for ease of use but I think it would work as I don't want to leave my DVD server on 24/7.


The other option would be to purchase a NAS storage external drive that would always be on and point all PC's to use the My Movies database stored on the NAS storage solution. That could work right as long as the database is creating using all UNC paths? I do realize that the movies on my DVD server wouldn't be useable while the DVD server is off.
Both of these solutions would work for you, but notice that a NAS storage device often is build on a PC with LAN access, and the power may be not far from what your current server is using.


I would leave the server on if I was you, but that is up to you. Perhaps have it to power down some (without going into full standby).


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Brian
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Just curious if you've been able to make any progress on the Xbox 360 capability to play full .vobs with menus?
I haven't, and I can say that if I do, it will at tops be a "movie only" playback - there is no way I can get menu's to work...


I will throw in $500 to the person who can get the Xbox 360 to play a full VIDEO_TS folder with menu's, subtitles, audiotrack selections, ect. I am very sure that it can't be done.


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Brian
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I will throw in $500 to the person who can get the Xbox 360 to play a full VIDEO_TS folder with menu's, subtitles, audiotrack selections, ect.
Through the extender session that is, off cause.
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Awesome, I love this program! Thank you very much!
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Brian - for the NAS storage of the database I was thinking of one of those little NAS storage hard drive enclosures. I was thinking of adding one to my network anyway to store files I want active all the time. This should use less power than a full PC. Just basically powering a hard drive and maybe a fan.
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Brian - for the NAS storage of the database I was thinking of one of those little NAS storage hard drive enclosures. I was thinking of adding one to my network anyway to store files I want active all the time. This should use less power than a full PC. Just basically powering a hard drive and maybe a fan.
Yea - but done NAS devices are often actually a linux based network PC, so again - check the power usage of it.


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Brian
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17-25watts for the Buffalo unit I've looked at. Thanks for the help Brian.
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I haven't, and I can say that if I do, it will at tops be a "movie only" playback - there is no way I can get menu's to work...


I will throw in $500 to the person who can get the Xbox 360 to play a full VIDEO_TS folder with menu's, subtitles, audiotrack selections, ect. I am very sure that it can't be done.


Regards,


Brian


HA, the gauntlet has been thrown down! I'd add money to this pot myself. I'd definitely pay for software that could do this.
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LL 350Z: Don't expect it to happen. But getting "Movie Only" to work will satisfy many I think.


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Brian
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