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Moving Pictures 1.3.1 Stable
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Moving Pictures is a movie management plug-in that focuses on both versatility and ease of use. Moving Pictures does it's best to load your movie collection as quickly as possible with very little user interaction and it then provides an easy to use but highly customizable interface to browse your movie collection.
If you have found a bug or have a question about specific Moving Pictures functionality please open a new thread so others with the same thoughts can more easily find the conversation.
Download
Change Log
Wiki / User's Guide
Project Page
Skin Designer's Guide
Developer's Guide
This is a Beta
This is a beta release to make sure things are stable before it is pushed out to everyone. This build has already successfully made it through a round of testing so it is fairly stable, but if you are not willing to deal with the possibility of an unexpected bug or two you may want to wait a week or so until the Stable release comes out.
Search
The biggest new feature in this release is search functionality. You can search by title, cast & crew or theme. This is accessible via the context menu (F9 for keyboard users). It is also possible for skin designers to add a search button to the main UI or a slide out menu if they like (although this is not implemented in the default skin). Other plugins can launch a search automatically via a "launch parameter" as well.
Custom Intro Videos
[Documentation]
For a while it has been possible to play a specific video before your movie starts. It is now possible to use wild cards when specifying this video or poimnt to a folder instead of a file to get a random video to play. These features are currently only accessible from Advanced Settings but they allow you to do some interesting stuff. For example, play a random trailer or two based on the genre of the movie you are about to watch.
Additional Tweaks
This build also contains about a dozen scraper script updates. The annoying "IMDb - " prefix issue is now corrected and all existing movies in your collection with this problem will be automatically fixed. Several translation updates have been implemented as well. These script and translation updates are almost completely community driven, thanks to you guys for contributing. Seriously it is a huge help.
MediaInfo processing will now halt when playback begins. We have gotten rid of the import delay when files are locked (configurable). See the change log for a full list of what is included.
Final Thoughts
I also want to say thanks for everyone's patience. I know updates have been less frequent lately and this is probably a smaller release than what you folks are accustom to. Life gets busy sometimes.
In any case thanks to everyone for the support. Thanks to all the contributors. And I am sorry in advance if I told you something would be in this release and it slipped. I will try harder!
Donate to Help Support Continued Development
Moving Pictures is a movie management plug-in that focuses on both versatility and ease of use. Moving Pictures does it's best to load your movie collection as quickly as possible with very little user interaction and it then provides an easy to use but highly customizable interface to browse your movie collection.
If you have found a bug or have a question about specific Moving Pictures functionality please open a new thread so others with the same thoughts can more easily find the conversation.
Download
Change Log
Wiki / User's Guide
Project Page
Skin Designer's Guide
Developer's Guide
This is a Beta
This is a beta release to make sure things are stable before it is pushed out to everyone. This build has already successfully made it through a round of testing so it is fairly stable, but if you are not willing to deal with the possibility of an unexpected bug or two you may want to wait a week or so until the Stable release comes out.
Search
The biggest new feature in this release is search functionality. You can search by title, cast & crew or theme. This is accessible via the context menu (F9 for keyboard users). It is also possible for skin designers to add a search button to the main UI or a slide out menu if they like (although this is not implemented in the default skin). Other plugins can launch a search automatically via a "launch parameter" as well.
Custom Intro Videos
[Documentation]
For a while it has been possible to play a specific video before your movie starts. It is now possible to use wild cards when specifying this video or poimnt to a folder instead of a file to get a random video to play. These features are currently only accessible from Advanced Settings but they allow you to do some interesting stuff. For example, play a random trailer or two based on the genre of the movie you are about to watch.
Additional Tweaks
This build also contains about a dozen scraper script updates. The annoying "IMDb - " prefix issue is now corrected and all existing movies in your collection with this problem will be automatically fixed. Several translation updates have been implemented as well. These script and translation updates are almost completely community driven, thanks to you guys for contributing. Seriously it is a huge help.
MediaInfo processing will now halt when playback begins. We have gotten rid of the import delay when files are locked (configurable). See the change log for a full list of what is included.
Final Thoughts
I also want to say thanks for everyone's patience. I know updates have been less frequent lately and this is probably a smaller release than what you folks are accustom to. Life gets busy sometimes.
In any case thanks to everyone for the support. Thanks to all the contributors. And I am sorry in advance if I told you something would be in this release and it slipped. I will try harder! 
