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<blockquote data-quote="NickName" data-source="post: 799135" data-attributes="member: 21675">Hi giosico,I don't use anything extra or special in Mediaportal (MP) to manage movies, just standard MP functionality. I know there are great plugins to manage movies but I just can't be bothered investing the time. I know people do but I have 4 young kids and not much spare time. Anyway, enough excuses.I just put the pictures in the same folder as the movie file. I have a folder called Adult (not p0rn, just movies suitable for us parents) and another folder called Kids.In these folders I just put the movie files (no sub-folders) with pictures and subtitle (if required) files that exactly match the name of the movie (except for the file extension of course).Example:\Kids\Sponge Bob.avi\Kids\Sponge Bob.jpg (I believe images can also be in PNG format instead, i.e. \Kids\Sponge Bob.png)\Kids\Sponge Bob.srtMP will then show one picture (i.e. of Sponge Bob) and when clicked, the movie plays.So all you need to do is map/mount/enable your drive so MP looks in it and that will work. I have seen very occasionally some JPGs that don't work (due to internal format), so it's simply a case of getting another version that does display. If the drive is a mapped network drive, don't use the mapped name, rather use the UNC name.Example:F:\Kids\ (Don't do use if it is a mapped drive on \\RemoteComputer)rather, do this:\\RemoteComputerName\Kids\Good luck,Nick Name.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="NickName, post: 799135, member: 21675"] Hi giosico, I don't use anything extra or special in Mediaportal (MP) to manage movies, just standard MP functionality. I know there are great plugins to manage movies but I just can't be bothered investing the time. I know people do but I have 4 young kids and not much spare time. Anyway, enough excuses. I just put the pictures in the same folder as the movie file. I have a folder called Adult (not p0rn, just movies suitable for us parents) and another folder called Kids. In these folders I just put the movie files (no sub-folders) with pictures and subtitle (if required) files that exactly match the name of the movie (except for the file extension of course). Example: \Kids\Sponge Bob.avi \Kids\Sponge Bob.jpg (I believe images can also be in PNG format instead, i.e. \Kids\Sponge Bob.png) \Kids\Sponge Bob.srt MP will then show one picture (i.e. of Sponge Bob) and when clicked, the movie plays. So all you need to do is map/mount/enable your drive so MP looks in it and that will work. I have seen very occasionally some JPGs that don't work (due to internal format), so it's simply a case of getting another version that does display. If the drive is a mapped network drive, don't use the mapped name, rather use the UNC name. Example: F:\Kids\ (Don't do use if it is a mapped drive on \\RemoteComputer) rather, do this: \\RemoteComputerName\Kids\ Good luck, Nick Name. [/QUOTE]

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