I use Theater View Explorer to find and present files in my video library. [This way all video files are presented without the need to create tag files for them, thus avoid polluting my video library with tons of XML tag files.]
But there area few relatively minor problems:
1) As soon as Theater View Explorer finds a folder with files, it lists the files by filename. But many of the names are chopped off, usually at point containing characters such as ", -, (, [, and number. I use a year number to end most file names and they are always chopped off. More annoyingly, if I organize a series of video in a folder by episode, such as:
Olympics, Event A, Part 1, date 1
Olympics, Event A, Part 2, date 2
Olympics, Event B, Part 3, date 3
Theater View Explorer will present the folder files as:
Olympics, Event A
Olympics, Event A
Olympics, Event B
Chopping off the remainder of the file name making it a hassle to find the video without clicking each file to see the full name.
2) Navigating Back from various points in Theater View, it suddenly hops a few steps back to Home when a network drive is involved. One has to try it to appreciate this strange behavior. It's just a nuisance.
3) Finally (hope I am not complaining too much), Theater View Explorer is kinda slow especially when searching network drives. Maybe this is a Windows issue. It appears not dependent on how fast the hardware is. Likely just a lot of fancy software processing.
Theater View Explorer is the principal tool I use MC as my home theater video player. It can be improved but it is the best darn Theater screen in the world. Thanks you J River!!