DOWNLOAD: Moving Pictures Public Beta 0.6.6 (4 Viewers)

[CiXel]

This plugin keeps getting sweeter. Thanks for all your effort.
One thing I can't figure out presently:

This was meant to be in 0.6 and it just got overlooked. I just made the fix in the code, it will work correctly in the next release. %filename% will be replaced with the filename of the movie without the extension. If a movie is multi-part (has more than one file) it will use the filename of the first part.

Ah great. it seemed common enough.

Speaking of... The plugin can use an existing .nfo file to grab imdb numbers. A great usage scenario. Has there been any though to an option that could export groomed data back to the nfo file or some other named file that could sit in the directory along with a given movie file. This could help speed up identification on 'tagged' items and would make sure groomed changes wouldn't get lost in case a database had to be rebuilt or blown out for some reason. It's not uncommon that I may replace a foreign title with its US equivalent, but and IMDB search by default grabs the original foreign entry. I didn't see an export entry to this effect on the issues page.

 

[fforde]

Ah great. it seemed common enough.

Speaking of... The plugin can use an existing .nfo file to grab imdb numbers. A great usage scenario. Has there been any though to an option that could export groomed data back to the nfo file or some other named file that could sit in the directory along with a given movie file. This could help speed up identification on 'tagged' items and would make sure groomed changes wouldn't get lost in case a database had to be rebuilt or blown out for some reason. It's not uncommon that I may replace a foreign title with its US equivalent, but and IMDB search by default grabs the original foreign entry. I didn't see an export entry to this effect on the issues page.

It's definitely in our road map. There is an item in our issue tracker for exactly what you describe. A community member expressed interested in developing this functionality a while back but we haven't heard from him in a while, so Armand or I may end up taking it on. I think the priority for this function falls a bit below filtering and search though so it may not be for a while before this feature is added.

 

[jonaskp]

After using the new release for some days now I am very pleased with the "filtering" you added. It's so easy to find movies that I know the name (or part of the name) of now.

One little cosmetic error I found: Sometimes when I have just started my HTPC, when I enter MovingPictures in the top left corner it says: "unwatched and filtered movies". The problem is that it is showing all my movies, nothing is filtered out (not even the watched ones). If i click "back" on my remote, I just end back in MP Home-menu.
If I click the watched off and on again, and filter the movies and then click "back", It shows correctly.
This is with skin Monochrome using the Generic Skinfiles from your latest release. Generic Skin files is because I exchanged the Monochrome MovingPictures skinfiles with some customs, and didn't want to reinstall entire Monochrome. When I get the time I'll try and reinstall Monochrome (or hopefully install MediaStream) and see if this still happens.

BTW, one thing I wasn't aware of in this release until I stumbled upon it in the Advanced config, was that we can now change the name of the plugin in Home-screen. This is AWESOME! My girlfriend has bugged me about why she must go into "MovingPictures" (sounds like something about photographs moving around she says ) when she wants to watch a movie. Now, this bugging has ended. I thank you.

 

[the_ult]

The new filtering is great indeed

Got another request though (Didn't see it in the request/issues list yet)
I would love the possibility to remove a movie from the movingpictures list or/and from my harddrive when I watched it.

 

[Mike1978]

sorry if this has been asked before: is it planned for the next versions to have logos or text description of the file details? Would be nice to see if a movie has 5.1 or just stereo sound

Edit: and I miss the good old counter (number of movies) of MyVideos in the upper left corner :-(

 

[marvenius]

I can not get it to automatically set the "watch" flag.
I have only tested this with iso files (no avi).
One movie I played to the very end and it returned to the DVD menu.
The other was played to 95% then I stopped the movie.
The two movies does not have the watch flag set and I had to do this manually.

I have verified this last night and can say it didn't update the watched flag. Sat through almost all the end titles, did watch some extras afterwards. (complete rip of full DVD, not just main movie)
Movie was still marked as unwatched.

 

[CiXel]

Has there been any though to an option that could export groomed data back to the nfo file

It's definitely in our road map. There is an item in our issue tracker for exactly what you describe. A community member expressed interested in developing this functionality a while back but we haven't heard from him in a while, so Armand or I may end up taking it on. I think the priority for this function falls a bit below filtering and search though so it may not be for a while before this feature is added.

Ah. Wrong search terms. All good though, as long as it's on the map.

Filtering and search are WAY more important. (And playing a random movie from what's been filtered

 

[Buzzie]

fforde

I just want to let you know that after deleting my whole database and doing a reimport of all my movies, they were all succesfully added.

Maybe there was just something wrong with my database.

I did however notice 1 thing when doing a manual add IF a movie isnt recognized or seen at all.
You cant change the location of the movie itself.

for instance movie 1 isnt recognised at all and is in c:\movie1
If you make c:\movie2 and put in test.mkv for instance, then Moving pictures sees the new movie. If you choose to manually change that movie you cant point it to c:\movie1
Hope i make any sense?

 

[Raytestrak]

Is there a way to make MovingPictures more intelligent in recognizing movies? For instance, I have The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (imdb name), but since ":" is an invalid character in filenames, I have named it The Chronicles of Narnia - The Prince Caspian.

The Moving Pictures plugin database config editor thingie totally gets that it's THAT movie, but within MP itself it won't show, the plugin database config editor thingie keeps waiting untill I click approve.

Another thing, and I state in advance that BOTH these movies are for the girlfriend, again ... for the girlfriend

I have Mamma Mia and Sex and the City. There are a number of Mamma Mia hits on imdb, but it picks the first hit. I think it should think the latest or mainstream version is leading. Why on earth would I have a full HD version of a 1953 stereo black and white version of Mamma Mia? And the fist hit for Sex and the City is the series, but it's MovingPictures, right? Not MovingTVseries

 

[armandp]

Is there a way to make MovingPictures more intelligent in recognizing movies? For instance, I have The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (imdb name), but since ":" is an invalid character in filenames, I have named it The Chronicles of Narnia - The Prince Caspian.

it's not auto-approving because your file is named:

The Chronicles of Narnia - The Prince Caspian

and imdb is:

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

that's a difference of three characters , and not going to be auto-approved by default (max one character difference).
Also only word characters (and spaces) are compared.. all cahracters like - and : are filtered out to get these kind of nameing differences out of the way.