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What Sayeth You?: MyVideos

#2 (1/21/2012)

This week's blog, as the title implies, is our 2nd 'What Sayeth You?' blog, and it is all about MediaPortal's stock videos/movies database handler, MyVideos. There has been a ton of work already done in it in 1.2 and so many more on the way. Just like our last WSY blog (The Good, The Bad & The Ugly), this one will use a theme from a popular movie or TV show.

So let's take MyVideos ...

AW: What Sayeth You?: MyVideos

Hi.
For me as User of Moving Pictures and TVSeries the MyVideo plugin always was a btn for the "Garbage" not fitting into the two "Flagship- Plugins". And I don't think this will change until MP2 is available. I think it's ok to increase stability and support for more file- types. But all Database related stuff is handled a lot better through Moving Pictures and TV Series...
It would be nice to make use of a "backdrop.jpg" and "folder.jpg" to provide a nicer look on not DB stored files. But beside this I think the Dev- Man Power is more needed on bigger issues like overall performance, stability and the really ugly and mostly unusable MyPictures plugin.

It would be a nice thing to have an EPG style list of your movies, complete with time. You would then see when a movie ends if you start playing it now. Perhaps sorted by length. You might want to watch a movie but need to finish before a certain time. This way you can list all possible candidates in an easy overview

I don't think of MyVideos as "the ugly", I have a number of non-movie, non-TV series, non-music videos to put in it, including video tutorials and home movies (certainly not garbage). I even stuff a few interesting You-Tube videos in there to keep that don't fall into particular categories. Adding my own information to the MyVideos DB might be easier if I was able to do it from the MP GUI, but as is, is workable. Data scrapers are pretty much useless in that regard, and fancy display graphics unnecessary for my purpose. I can say that I use Moving Pictures and MP TV-Series daily, but I could not do without MyVideos.

Chuck