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Originally Posted by charli181  Answer for Question 3.
If you have no check boxes selected, when you go to the shares view, it will show all the shares configured.
Now answer for question 1,
Once you have your shares setup, you can run a scan of your shares. This can be done from MP confugration under Movies/Movie database/ Scan Tab. You just need to select all the shares you want to scan. Another way also is from within MP itself, from the shares view, find the individual movie to be added to the database and press F3 on the keyboard or right click and select IMDB. Note internet connectivity is required for this. This will add the movies to the database. Once all your movies are added to the database, clicking any of the other views (genre, Title, Actor, Year,etc)will display the Coverart of the movies. Then you can click on it to start playing the movie. Note, the database allows movies from different shares to be compiled into one big list and the user (ie. kids/wife/non PC people)do not need to navigate through shares and folders.
Question 2 - Can't help you there. Will be interested to see how you go with that as I am in the same dillema. I am looking at DIVX6 or XVID(opensource). |
Number 3. That is what I was missing. I've removed the checkmark and now all the drives will be seen. THANK you.
Number1. I didn't know I could do this from within MP. I knew that the way I was doing it wasn't making any link between my artwork and the actual movie - at least I coudn't see how. The movies listed on the drive had no link to the database, they were just a list of what was on the drive. Again, your remedy was right on the money!
But it leads to another question.
Since I've ripped all but the movie off of my dvd's in order to save space, the "header" (or whatever info IMBD looks at to get info on the movie) is gone. So I went into MP Config and did it manually. For artwork that wasn't good, or wasn't found, I was able to find it manually, edit in PhotoShop then insert it. Looks great, but as you know doing it this way did NOT link the database to the actual IFO so the movie could play. This is why I could only play from the SHARES. Doing it from within MP will do what I need, but having done all of the database work the WRONG way for about 100 of my movies, instead of going back thru and manually doing them all again, is there a way to alter the DataBase so it points to the proper IFO? Or is there a way to go into MP Config to the Movies/Database tab and link what I've already done to the correct file so that clicking on the artwork will work?
When I do it manually from within MP, it DOES link
Number 2. Seem to be a stickler for a lot of people.
Thanks for your help!
I tried Nero REcode, and used the same file size that you did (1.4g) but it kept coming up with errors.
I use DVDFabPlatinum to pull the main movie out, without compressing the original MPEG.
I'll try to reinstall, but frankly I don't really like many of Nero's offerings.
I've seen that it takes a bit of time, not looking forward to recoding 100 movies, but once that's done it's just a matter of doing it as I get new movies - not that bad then.
What size tv are you viewing it on? We're looking at a 61" Samsung DLP, and if it's a tradeoff between file size, and picture quality I'll stick with the larger files.
As for file size, once I found a method that worked I was going to shoot for a 2:1 compression,,, ASSUMING that what I've read, I've understood correctly:
H.264 (or Mpeg4 v10) is roughly 5 times more efficient at compressing the movie. If this is accurate, and it does so without compromising picture quality, then I should be able to take a 5 gig Mpeg2 rip and recode it to a 1 gig H.264 rip with the same picture quality.
If that is the case, then something else doesn't make sense to me.
Blue-Ray HD Movies are HUGE files aren't they? Granted they are natively larger due to more information (roughly 5 times as much info in an HD movie as there is in a standard dvd?)
If they are 5 times larger, but using a compression that is 5 times more efficient, wouldn't the same movie fit onto a standard DVD?
IE: A 4 gig movie in standard would be a 20 gig movie in HD, using the same MPEG2 compressions. But compressed with H.264 (5 times more efficent) it would be a 4 gig file. But it isn't. Does this mean that BlueRay is NOT using the H.264, but mpeg2 instead?