Classifying movies and documentaries (1 Viewer)

[angusmann]

Hi all. I have a pretty bug collection of videos in avi format - about 1200 full length movies, and about 2000 documentaries.

So the problem of ordering and classifying them has come up, and I'm asking for help.

I need a good, comprehensive list of categories so I can create folders and store the files in an organized manner.

For example - the documentaries might have these categories
- famous people
- ancient history
- modern history
- inventions
- the solar system
- animals
- plants

But the list is huge and my current classification is not very good. For example - a documentary about the Vietnam war could be filed under "War", "Modern History" or "Political science". A documentary about Hitler could go under "Famous people" or "War" or "History" - The movie "Matrix" could be filed under "Sci-Fi", "Fantasy", "Action", "Thriller" or "Drama". You can see my problem.

I thought (perhaps) I could create shortcuts to various videos so they can appear in several different categories. Just a thought.

Can anybody point me to a well thought-out classification system and some rules for using it so I can get my library under control?

Thanks in advance!

 

[m.standish]

personally i use the standard MP library grabbed from imdb but then go into the video Db editor section in MP config and add the extra genres through that as imdb only picks up the first genre in the list but through mp you can tag it as loads, and set your own genres

check out "one stop uk" thread for movie genre icons, they are really pretty LOL

i can now use mp to show in genres list and one particulat film will show up in sci-fi, horror and fantasy
also in the f3 (movie info screen) will show gerea as all 3

currently do not know a automated way of getting these byt someone should rewrite the grabber to collect all the genres from imdb not just the first

 

[smilenkovski]

I have similar problem; over 1000 movies, more than 100 documentaries (more of them in doc. series) , animated movies, TV show, (stand up or classic shows), real mess. The documentaries which are in series I'm watching through the plugin MY TV series and because the plugin is using thetvdb.com, you can update the site for the unknown doc series. But the real deal should be to have dedicated plugin for every genre or to know how to modify myFilms, Moving pictures or MYTV series plugins.