Save media file names relative to "share"

[bermag]

Now media files (video, music files etc) are stored in the database with their full filename. It would be much better if the file name relative to the the movie folder share is saved. This would make it much easier to have several MP installations share the same database (ie to just copy the database between computers.

For example:

Let say I have my videos in a directory m:\multimedia\movies. In mp setup I define a movie folder named "Movies" pointing to that folder.

Today each film is stored with the full path, for example d:\multimedia\movies\MyMovie.avi.

Instead I would like the file to be saved relative to the movie folder I have defined i.e:

movies\MyMovie.avi

Now let say I have another computer in my network that I want to share the same folder. I could just define a network share (either by assigning any drive letter or maybe just use UNC paths if that is supported) and setup a folder named the same, "Movies" but pointing to whatever path it has on that computer (z:\multimedia\movies or whatever).

Since the video files have the same path (movies\MyMovie.avi) you could just copy the database files from the original computer to the new one.

Of course the best solution would be if the media database was on a shared database like the tv tables are for TVE3.