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<blockquote data-quote="perry59" data-source="post: 165878" data-attributes="member: 52505">I never even heard of the ANT movie database until I started playing with MediaPortal and looked at the MyFilms plugin which seemed interesting.Excuse my ignorance, but whats the point? If you have dvd's ripped to your hard drive MP will already download plenty of information on them, why maintain a seperate database?I downloaded ANT to check it out, and it seemed a LOT more trouble than its worth. I pointed it to a movie on my drive (Animal house), and it did not fill in ANY info. So I'm supposed to enter all this by hand? Again, whats the point. I then told it to look at the IMDB for info and it said there was none. Hard to believe a &quot;cult classic&quot; would not be in the database.The help file for ANT also seemed totally useless, and I could not find a tutorial for it anywhere.Needless to say, I quickly trashed ANT as a waste of time. Am I missing something here?Again, why go to all that trouble to maintain a seperate database when MP or MCE will easily get this info for you and maintain its own database?Thanks for any illumination on this matter <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite5" alt=":confused:" title="Confused&nbsp; &nbsp; :confused:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":confused:" /> Perry</blockquote>

[QUOTE="perry59, post: 165878, member: 52505"] I never even heard of the ANT movie database until I started playing with MediaPortal and looked at the MyFilms plugin which seemed interesting. Excuse my ignorance, but whats the point? If you have dvd's ripped to your hard drive MP will already download plenty of information on them, why maintain a seperate database? I downloaded ANT to check it out, and it seemed a LOT more trouble than its worth. I pointed it to a movie on my drive (Animal house), and it did not fill in ANY info. So I'm supposed to enter all this by hand? Again, whats the point. I then told it to look at the IMDB for info and it said there was none. Hard to believe a "cult classic" would not be in the database. The help file for ANT also seemed totally useless, and I could not find a tutorial for it anywhere. Needless to say, I quickly trashed ANT as a waste of time. Am I missing something here? Again, why go to all that trouble to maintain a seperate database when MP or MCE will easily get this info for you and maintain its own database? Thanks for any illumination on this matter :S Perry [/QUOTE]

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