Genre and Rating (PG-G-R) (1 Viewer)

[steve760]

Is their an easy way that I can have clients show a specific genre or rating of movies only.

For instance I have set up a client of MP and Moving Pictures on my daughters computer, I would like to have it only show of course movies for children, G-PG, is their a way of doing this already available?

If not would it be something to be added in future, maybe the easiest way would be through a .txt file dropped in a movies folder that would tell Moving Pictures that is is OK to add it to client computers database based on settings allowed in that clients configuration of Moving Pictures.

For instance We could add a file to a movies folder named "rated.txt" and have a rating section in the configuration of moving pictures for current movie ratings (G-PG-PG13-R-X-not sure of all them) and they could have radio check boxes, moving pictures would only show or find movies that contained a rated.txt file that included the according rating in it.

I think this would be a very nice addition to an already Great Plugin.

Thanks Steve.

 

[fforde]

Both parental controls (the ability to hide certain movies until a password has been entered) and filter will be added in the next release. So you should be covered once Moving Pictures 0.8 comes out. This is something like 4 to 6 weeks away I think (tentatively).

 

[steve760]

Nice that sounds great, I think what i will do until then is seperate my movies into folders according to basic genre's on my windows home server, this way I can configure my daughters client to only show the "family" folder.

Will doing this break my Moving Pictures database on my exsisting client, I would figure it will, now that the path will be changing from for instance "video's\dvd" to "video's\dvd\genres\family"

Thanks for the fast reply.

 

[fforde]

If you are running the latest version, if you move files from one folder to another inside the same import path Moving Pictures will automatically update the file references without requiring you to reimport the movies. Currently this will only work if Moving Pictures is running when you move the files. For what it's worth this is a pretty new feature that I think has not gotten much use, so buyer beware. If you try this though, let me know how it works for you.

 

[steve760]

and what if I started moving them already on my server while Moving Pictures was not running, lol, as I think that MP is shutdown on that computer?

Of course if its not running, i can easily just drop all the movies back in the original folder "DVD" as that may be easiest, then run it.

Also should i be in the configuration gui or just in MediaPortal under Moving Pictures and we see how this works, i moved the movies back to original spot.

BTW it was already running anyway, but was sleeping.

 

[fforde]

Also should i be in the configuration gui or just in MediaPortal under Moving Pictures and we see how this works, i moved the movies back to original spot.

Does not matter.