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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RoChess" data-source="post: 988962" data-attributes="member: 18896">I know from experience that waiting sucks, so for those users who do not build Moving-Pictures from SVN and would still like to play with the new features added, here is a test-build you can use: <a href="http://code.google.com/p/imdbplus/downloads/list" target="_blank">http://code.google.com/p/imdbplus/downloads/list</a> Just keep in mind to *NOT* report any bugs, unless you can go back to the official version of Moving-Pictures and recreate the problem, or know how to report bugs correctly when running a test-build. And remember to make backups of any files you replace (as well as your movingpictures.db3 database), so you can go back if issues arise. If none of this makes sense to you, then just wait for the official new Moving-Pictures release. New version adds support for:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Release date -- This will tell you the exact date a movie was first put in theaters, so it is an interesting way to filter on with custom categories. For example 'May' is a famous month in the US for big summer blockbusters to get released. It also allows a more nuanced sorting of movies. Keep in mind that for some interesting usages the skin would need to be updated as well, which is not included.</li> </ul><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Plot Keywords -- additional ability to search for movies, example is easiest so with "The Avengers" you would get "shield, thor, captain america, captain, iron man". This will later be expanded with an update of IMDb+ plugin, so you can even select the full plot keyword list of: <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0848228/keywords" target="_blank">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0848228/keywords</a> and then be able to filter out all your movies that have "scene after end credits", or locate all movies that have an 'alien' in them.</li> </ul><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Collections -- This is an initial step towards full integrated movie-series support within Moving-Pictures. What it does for the time being is allow for a dynamic category to be added (same as 'Genres') that gives direct access to your movie series. You have to manually add this yourself via Moving-Pictures configuration and use the 'Category' editor to add a new dynamic menu item for collections. As a special bonus to IMDb+ users, you also get a collection entry for 'Superheroes', 'Tolkien's Middle-earth' and 'IMDb Top 250'. And for the real movie buffs, no collection is complete without having '250 movies' show when you are inside that Top250 view. It is not yet possible to let you know what movies you are missing if you have less then 250, but one step at a time <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></li> </ul>Keep in mind that you will have to refresh your movie collection for the new data to get scraped from IMDb website and added to the database. You can use the IMDb+ plugin hidden menu for this, so you can watch a movie while it is updating in the background (keep in mind that some slower or less multi-thread friendly systems will experience small lag/stutter during video playback). Or you can just go to bed/work/etc and let it do its thing. The average time is between 3 and 5 seconds per movie, so a 1200 movie collection will take about an hour to refresh.</blockquote>

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