With the release of v 6.0.3, we have introduced a "Test mode" in MyFilms, that allows you to enable and test upcoming features planned for future releases.
Who should use Test Mode?
Anyone can enable Test Mode and peek into the features we plan for the near future, but we recommend this only for experienced users and users willing to help us with testing and provide quality feedback and bug reports. These Test Mode features are NOT supported for normal use! - some are WIP and not yet fully complete and documentation might be missing or incomplete.
Skinners may also use Test Mode to get a 'jump start' for any skin changes for v 6.1.0.
And what is your benefit?
You'll help improving MyFilms and help to get new features into next releases.
And ... well ... you get access to some pretty cool features .
How can you help us?
We need help testing the new features as well as the documentation. So you can help by:
Any prerequisites?
Since the upcoming features are new, and only basic testing has been completed, most important is, as always:
Several of the Online Movie Lists, and Trailer features require the OnlineVideos plugin - see the wiki What's New > 6.1.0 for details.
How do I enable the test mode and test the features?
Test mode can be enabled in MyFilms setup. You MUST save your config, and restart setup to see new setup options.
Upcoming 6.1.0 features (available in 6.0.3 in Test Mode)
MyFilms v6.0.3 Test Mode includes the following features planned for 6.1.0 which are ready to be evaluated/tested:
Happy testing
Who should use Test Mode?
Anyone can enable Test Mode and peek into the features we plan for the near future, but we recommend this only for experienced users and users willing to help us with testing and provide quality feedback and bug reports. These Test Mode features are NOT supported for normal use! - some are WIP and not yet fully complete and documentation might be missing or incomplete.
Skinners may also use Test Mode to get a 'jump start' for any skin changes for v 6.1.0.
And what is your benefit?
You'll help improving MyFilms and help to get new features into next releases.
And ... well ... you get access to some pretty cool features .
How can you help us?
We need help testing the new features as well as the documentation. So you can help by:
- Testing a feature and providing feedback in this thread - positive feedback that the feature is working as intended is also very important
- Provide proper bug reports (see Support) so we can fix it for the public release
- Check the documentation, ideally as you test new features, and provide feedback or even contribute to improving the documentation!
Any prerequisites?
Since the upcoming features are new, and only basic testing has been completed, most important is, as always:
- Take a backup of your data - a bug in a test mode feature might do harm to your data!
- Make sure you know how you can restore your backup to revert to a working environment.
Several of the Online Movie Lists, and Trailer features require the OnlineVideos plugin - see the wiki What's New > 6.1.0 for details.
How do I enable the test mode and test the features?
Test mode can be enabled in MyFilms setup. You MUST save your config, and restart setup to see new setup options.
Upcoming 6.1.0 features (available in 6.0.3 in Test Mode)
MyFilms v6.0.3 Test Mode includes the following features planned for 6.1.0 which are ready to be evaluated/tested:
- Improved Setup Wizard to support central config setups
- Precaching of movie DB on startup for faster initial plugin start especially for network setups
- Autorun AMCU (Import new movies) on plugin start
- Virtual path browsing - aka Shares view on steroids
- Change Default Config and Options via Options > Global Settings in GUI
- Support for movie thumbs in Details screen
- Box Sets/Groups:
- Improved Box Set management in GUI
- Download of collection covers from TMDB
- New dialog for visual image selection (for Collection Covers) (requires skin change)
- Online Movie Info:
- Online info about current, upcoming and most liked movies
- Allow sorting for Online Movie Info/Lists
- Context search option for online content to search local content by facade label keywords
- OnlineVideos search in movie context menu
- Local caching for trailers of online content
- Trailers:
- Download trailers for multiple movies
- Trailer 'Scrobbling' - Play random trailers from a group of films
- Play online streams directly in MyFilms
- Persons Info:
- Get TMDB filmography via person context menu
- View related persons view from Details Window
Happy testing
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