Can anyone explain what this is?

[Datenshi]

This My Films plugin certainly sounds like something i want to use, but there's like zero useful documentation on it? Im not familiar with Ant Movie Catalog..took me an hour to release i probably needed it and guess what? The program is crazy hard to understand. Im no computer novice but still this is painfully annoying to work with.
Can anyone write a decent walktrough or point me in the right direction concering how to use this plugin please?

[drunkmonkey0]

Create a movie database in ANT - create a separate item for each movie, set the url to the location of the movie file.
Save this as an xml.
set the my films plugin to use this file and use url to determine location of movie.

think thats it, not at my media center at the moment.

[tompa]

could this picture help? I picked it up on the forum because it helped me

/tompa

[surfermc]

Have you had a look in the Wiki? This page might be useful, or atleast get you started.

[daquint]

tompa,

how did that Meaning of Life turn out? Hope it was XVID!

[Stokkes]

I'm in the same boat as the OP...

I recently switched to MP from XBMC. I was used to the way XBMC did things in that it scanned my movies folder against IMDB (via a scraper), imported all the Titles, actors, etc. into it's own database that I could then view via the interface and play any movie I had.

This was great for my 200+ DVDs I ripped to ISO (I went all digital, no more media for me).

Can My Films do this? Is there another alternative? I really don't want to have to enter 200+ movies into the ANT database manually, I think i'll go insane.

Thanks for any help!

[whatisk]

Originally Posted by Stokkes

I'm in the same boat as the OP...

I recently switched to MP from XBMC. I was used to the way XBMC did things in that it scanned my movies folder against IMDB (via a scraper), imported all the Titles, actors, etc. into it's own database that I could then view via the interface and play any movie I had.

This was great for my 200+ DVDs I ripped to ISO (I went all digital, no more media for me).

Can My Films do this? Is there another alternative? I really don't want to have to enter 200+ movies into the ANT database manually, I think i'll go insane.

Thanks for any help!

You could try using AMCUpdater from here.

According to the last entry, it can handle DVD rips by locating the IFO in the VIDEO_TS folder and trying to determine the movie name from the folder structure you use.

Could be worth a shot.

[zebons]

Originally Posted by Stokkes

I'm in the same boat as the OP...

I recently switched to MP from XBMC. I was used to the way XBMC did things in that it scanned my movies folder against IMDB (via a scraper), imported all the Titles, actors, etc. into it's own database that I could then view via the interface and play any movie I had.

This was great for my 200+ DVDs I ripped to ISO (I went all digital, no more media for me).

Can My Films do this? Is there another alternative? I really don't want to have to enter 200+ movies into the ANT database manually, I think i'll go insane.

Thanks for any help!

With ANT,there are a lot of scripts to get movies infos from differents sites (you can choose the best script site for you...). Try it and you'll see that the work isn't so hard and the use of the xml database really nice. No need to do another action (no import into MP, MP use directly the same xml datafile as MP) so if you decide later to choose another Media Center software, you'll keep your movie collection...

[Stokkes]

Zebons,

Excellent plugin, tu me sauves la vie!

However, since I can better express myself in english, is there a reason why movies that are in ISO/IMG format "attempt" to get loaded by MP via daemon tools, but don't play? For instance, if I try to play an ISO movie from the My Films plugin, when I choose "play", i see the little indicator that it's loading the ISO, but it doesn't play.

If I go into the regular MP "My Videos" menu, browse to the folder with the ISO and click on it, it loads fine.

Any ideas? Most of my movies are in ISO/IMG format.

Thanks!

[zebons]

Originally Posted by Stokkes

Zebons,

Excellent plugin, tu me sauves la vie!

However, since I can better express myself in english, is there a reason why movies that are in ISO/IMG format "attempt" to get loaded by MP via daemon tools, but don't play? For instance, if I try to play an ISO movie from the My Films plugin, when I choose "play", i see the little indicator that it's loading the ISO, but it doesn't play.

If I go into the regular MP "My Videos" menu, browse to the folder with the ISO and click on it, it loads fine.

Any ideas? Most of my movies are in ISO/IMG format.

Thanks!

Actually, only DVD iso files are accepted by the plugin... The plugin search TS_VIDEO into the mounted Image.
How are your movies labelled into the iso file ? Can you give me some examples as I can imagine the search method to find the right file ?
zebons,