I'd call the view 'Restricted' and put it at the end of main menu. I know you trust your kids, but as an additional control you could pad your adult collection with a bunch of ABBA videos. That should repel anyone who selects the view 'accidentally'.
Oh god, that would certainly work.
Ha ha ha ha. Picking on ABBA is fun.
Anyhow..
Yeah, that's basically what I meant, though I was more detailing how to set up multiple views in Standard View (assuming there was some TV Shows they wanted to block, some movies, and maybe even some audio and images). So I wanted to show a way to easily copy their existing views over to a "sub-folder" to keep everything nicely together and identical to what they're used-to now, just filtered differently.
For Theater View, I'd put it as a Top-Level View too, just like Rick suggests. You do these separately, so they don't have to match.
BTW, there was a discussion recently about implementing some sort of simple access control in Theatre View, but JRiver doesn't seem interested.
True, but everyone wants the world.
I think there would be "global value" in a system that allowed you to mark particular files (via a simple Yes/No boolean [Restricted] tag) as "protected", and then a similar system that allowed you to mark a particular view (in Theater View, Standard View, or the Media Network views) as similarly "restricted". When you enable this for the first time, it would prompt for a required PIN number (that could be reset and otherwise configured under Options -> Parental Controls or Options -> Restrictions). And then, of course, any time you try to open a restricted view, or play, tag, or otherwise modify a restricted file, (or whatever), it would prompt you for the PIN.
A typical 4-digit PIN number system would make it easy to use from the couch with a remote. And the PIN-entry box could just have a "don't prompt me again for X minutes" doohickey that defaults to something reasonable like 30 minutes or an hour (so that if you're tagging or browsing and then watching a bunch of short things, or flipping through pictures, it wouldn't prompt you constantly).
That would be an awesome feature for MC 18.
I probably wouldn't ever use it myself for Parental Controls, because I have... let's say, unconventional, views about the wisdom of over-protecting our children from the real art, media, and news in the real world. But I'm a minority. Lots of "regular folks" would want parental controls that are simple to use. But, even for people like us, it would be handy to be able to lock files and protect them from accidental tag-editing (which was the impetus for many previous discussions of this kind of system).
But, imagine if under that new Options -> Restrictions dialog, you could set what Restrictions were PIN-enforced. You could allow playback of [Restricted] files, but still protect Deleting and Tagging, by simply de-selecting "Playback" as one of the Restricted features.