Moving Picture Public Beta: 0.5.4 (1 Viewer)

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moviebackdrops.com

I'd like to say Hello to John and everyone else interested in this plug-in. John contacted me via XBMC forums about his plug-in and I figured I'd join over here to help with the tech support issues.

I apologize for the site being down, as Paranoid Delusion linked to my post over there I wont repeat everything, I'll just say (for those too lazy to visit the link) :D that the site being down is a temporary issue unless the abuse that I recieve continues on a regular basis. As far as I can tell looking at the logs on my server this plug-in is not the cause of the CPU load, so (not pointing fingers) if some of the users of this are "Site-Ripping" as well as using the plug-in I respectfully request that they do not do that.

The site should be back up soon, the email they sent me said it'd be at +0100 GMT but it might not be exact.

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fforde, thanks for the info on your plug-in, I'm taking a look at it now... hell, this gave me a reason to check out your forums and I might put MediaPortal on one of my desktops to test because of you. :p
 

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Thanks for stopping by Archigos, I really appreciate it. And glad to here you might be taking a look at MediaPortal! :p If you have any questions send me a PM.
 

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    Hi,

    I tried it yesterday and was amazed ! Really, REALLY good work fforde !

    Few thougts, though:
    I have my movies on a hidden network share. I could only browse through my network to find my movie path - not so good with hidden shares. I had to map a network, which is not so bad, but network mappings seem to get lost in XP (ghosting...), maybe you could make an option to manually enter a path.

    In the results list I get about 10 movies to pick from, that works for most movies, sadly not for all - try to find "The One.avi" :)) Maybe you could extend this list (or add a "more"-button) ? Or is it already there and I just haven´t seen it...

    Love it.

    cheers
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    That's good news :)

    fforde & ArmandP
    Thanks for all the hard work!
    Will test the release this week.


    A small problem which I still have is that in the configmenu, the overview tabpage is empty, the settings tabpage [rescan all]-button doesn't work and the help tabpage is empty. Is this correct?

    When you're in the first tabpage of the configmenu and alter the title of a movie, you can't do a rescan on that movie to get the correct imdb/moviesxml or backdrops. Is this correct?

    - Were can I find the movingpictures DB, so I delete it and do a clean 'install/rescan'?

    :D
     

    emphatic

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    the_ult: The db is in "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal" for XP. For Vista, I don't know. Same place as your "Cache" folder.

    Emph
     

    pilehave

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    What is the advantage of this plugin, compared to the built-in Video? I think this one looks interesting, but isn't it "just" a skin-change / update? I understand that there is an automatic update-function when a movie is added. But isn't this already in MP?
     

    mattsk88

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    What is the advantage of this plugin, compared to the built-in Video? I think this one looks interesting, but isn't it "just" a skin-change / update? I understand that there is an automatic update-function when a movie is added. But isn't this already in MP?

    There is a hell of a lot of extra functionality that is either already implemented or is being added in the near future.

    Just a quick list of the top off my head.
    *Currently implemented

    -Movie Fanart support - automatic downloading of movie fanart (big feature) (no slowdowns etc)
    -Better Importer - picks up more movies correctly
    -Much faster than MyVideos (No slowdown on watched movie flags)

    * Coming Soon
    -Logo support similar to mptvseries
    -Advanced movie filtering
    -Custom movie tagging
    -More skinning features :D

    The best thing is, if you think some functionality is missing you can mention it on the issue tracker. If its a good idea it will be added.
     

    ThaClown

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    What is the advantage of this plugin, compared to the built-in Video? I think this one looks interesting, but isn't it "just" a skin-change / update? I understand that there is an automatic update-function when a movie is added. But isn't this already in MP?
    hehe just try it youll see....
     

    pilehave

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    What is the advantage of this plugin, compared to the built-in Video? I think this one looks interesting, but isn't it "just" a skin-change / update? I understand that there is an automatic update-function when a movie is added. But isn't this already in MP?
    hehe just try it youll see....

    Well, judging from the screenshots i don't see where the advantage is - i mean, there's the same info as in the built-in Movies view, isn't there?

    Normally the plugins I see in MP are someone that changes something drastically or improves something with new functionality.

    Well, gotta try it then ;)
     
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