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Title: Viewing your video library in MC
Post by: Jonathan DA on January 09, 2007, 06:15:28 pm

Does anyone have a suggestion on how to make the Video section more usable?  My main issue is that I have dvds backed-up on my media server, organized via the path /media/movies/title/video_ts.  So when I click the Video button in MC12, it brings up everything by file name, which are all the same (video_ts).  So the only way to find the correct video is to look at the path, which isn't very user friendly.  If I had cover art for all of them there wouldn't be a problem, but I don't, and don't want to go back and add cover art for all of them either.  Is there something I'm missing?  An easier way to do view my movie catalog?

Title: Re: Viewing your video library in MC
Post by: Matt on January 09, 2007, 06:45:43 pm

You could use the "Fill Properties From Filename" tool to put the title from the path into the Album (or other) Media Center field.  Then you could use that field in your views, searches, etc.

Title: Re: Viewing your video library in MC
Post by: Jonathan DA on January 09, 2007, 07:01:58 pm

Thanks Matt!  That worked perfectly.

Title: Re: Viewing your video library in MC
Post by: runemail on January 10, 2007, 03:10:29 pm

This works, but it would be a lot better to put a similar option in Otto. So we could set up different options for different locations.

Then video would show up automagically in the library with basic tags, and maybe even yadb could be used for movie-covers as well?

And if some kind soul wrote a plugin to grab metadata from imdb, everybody would be very, very happy.

Title: Re: Viewing your video library in MC
Post by: gappie on January 10, 2007, 03:59:38 pm

a few days ago i looked if it would be possible to make something to go from the movie to imdb, like i do with my audio to google or wikipedia. but ofcource i couldnt. i think it could be nice to have this option underneath locate. maybe something loke, locate on web, with the option to add adresse where to look.  :)

Title: Re: Viewing your video library in MC
Post by: John Gateley on January 10, 2007, 04:36:31 pm

Hi Gappie, I'm looking into this...

j

Title: Re: Viewing your video library in MC
Post by: gappie on January 10, 2007, 04:50:39 pm

thanks, that would be nice john.

Title: Re: Viewing your video library in MC
Post by: glynor on January 10, 2007, 05:11:30 pm

For now, you can add IMDB as a Send To --> External item and use that to look up info when you want.

Do do this, simply add a new item to Send To --> External.  Then enter the following:

Code: [Select]

Name: IMDB

Program Path: C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe (for firefox users)
--or--
Program Path: C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IExplore.exe (for IE users)

Parameters: http://us.imdb.com//Tsearch?"[Name]"
This will send the contents of the [Name] field to IMDB's search.  You could also easily have a different one that sends [Artist] or whatever else you want, depending on how you tag your video files.

Title: Re: Viewing your video library in MC
Post by: gappie on January 10, 2007, 05:28:14 pm

that is nice glynor. hadnt thought of that! and it works nicely. the parameters did not work but for imdb this worked for me:

Code: [Select]

www.imdb.com//find?s=all&q=[Name]
thanks a lot

Title: Re: Viewing your video library in MC
Post by: Sauzee on January 10, 2007, 06:50:21 pm

wow, that's really cool. thanks guys