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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 28 for Windows => Topic started by: dnavratil on December 31, 2022, 09:49:30 am
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David here, Is it possible to manually input movies without actually having the movie? I want a database of movies I want to get someday! Tks for any help, DN
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Hi David, Happy new year.
You can do that with a placeholder video file - just find a small/empty videoclip and create copies of it with the movie names you want (like "Dead Calm (1989).avi"), and put them all in some folder that you add to AutoImport. Then you can import them and tag them as any other file, do Get Movie/TV Info, add a poster, etc.
A better option using a bit more disk space is to download and import the actual movie trailers instead of using the same placeholder clip, and tag them with MovieSubType=Trailer plus any other tagging needed for your views/smartlists. The advantage is that you can then double-click these files in MC and see the actual trailer :)
There are several ways to download trailers:
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/hdtrailers-download-free-movie-trailers
It should even be possible to directly import a movie trailer URL from youtube (which wouldn't use any disk storage), but that doesn't work very well with MC. Also, youtube direct URLs have an expiration timestamp, so they might stop working.
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Zybex, Thank you very much for your insights! I really like that idea of a small place holder file, it would work perfectly! Most of the movies I want to see are from the early 1900's up to the 1960's so I'm sure the Trailer idea would not work well for me! Thanks again, David N.
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You could import e.g. poster image and set media sub type to movie. MCUtils can create dummy files using tmdb id but setting MCUtils up requires a little work and MCWS needs to be enabled
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Tangential question: I didn't notice there was a Movie Sub-type tag. How does a file tagged as Movie -> Trailer display in the Viewer? I know I could simply try this out, but...