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<blockquote data-quote="cyberquixote" data-source="post: 171496" data-attributes="member: 24539">Agreed...I am not sure it makes sense to just use the default &quot;;&quot; separated behavior - what I think people would want is&nbsp; they should be presented as a 2nd level menu, so there may be a better mechanism...What I currently wound up hacking together for myself (sorry...I used proprietary QT toolkit &amp; a lot of assumptions about my personal setup to streamline the UI development) that works nicely for me, and MAY be worth implementing for the world at large is basically preprocessing the ANT database &amp; my directory structure - matching all the .ifos with their movies when I found them, then looking 1 directory up on all the unmatched ifos...So in my case, since I am coming from DVDProfiler, I can just rewrite the ANT database XML for each of the movies it finds on the disk updating their location, and also create new entries so that when it finds the directories &quot;LOTR two towers/Disk1&quot; and &quot;LOTR two towers/Disk 2&quot; will replace the original &quot;LOTR Two towers&quot; entry in ANT with two copies using the new names and set the locations, then the My Films engine will do the right thing with the menus if you set the separator character correctly.It might be worth considering this a bit for further development - by making a private copy of the ANT database, you can manipulate it however you like to make it more a representation of movies on the disk, rather than movies I own... though I am guessing that was not the author's original intent...but it seems like there is lots of interest in that direction <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />.&nbsp; Then there could be a &quot;rescan&quot; button on the My Films UI in Media Portal that would resync the private copy from the ANT database, pre locating all the movies, adding extra entries...maybe removing ones that are not found on disk...etc.&nbsp; Also nice with this method is you could provide feedback about which movies either on disk or in the DB...or found twice etc, rather than wait until you try to launch the movie for the first time.&nbsp; In my case, there were a very large number of movies where my directory did not QUITE match the title in ANT and needed to be fixed (about 1 in 5).Thanks again for a great plugin!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="cyberquixote, post: 171496, member: 24539"] Agreed...I am not sure it makes sense to just use the default ";" separated behavior - what I think people would want is they should be presented as a 2nd level menu, so there may be a better mechanism... What I currently wound up hacking together for myself (sorry...I used proprietary QT toolkit & a lot of assumptions about my personal setup to streamline the UI development) that works nicely for me, and MAY be worth implementing for the world at large is basically preprocessing the ANT database & my directory structure - matching all the .ifos with their movies when I found them, then looking 1 directory up on all the unmatched ifos... So in my case, since I am coming from DVDProfiler, I can just rewrite the ANT database XML for each of the movies it finds on the disk updating their location, and also create new entries so that when it finds the directories "LOTR two towers/Disk1" and "LOTR two towers/Disk 2" will replace the original "LOTR Two towers" entry in ANT with two copies using the new names and set the locations, then the My Films engine will do the right thing with the menus if you set the separator character correctly. It might be worth considering this a bit for further development - by making a private copy of the ANT database, you can manipulate it however you like to make it more a representation of movies on the disk, rather than movies I own... though I am guessing that was not the author's original intent...but it seems like there is lots of interest in that direction :). Then there could be a "rescan" button on the My Films UI in Media Portal that would resync the private copy from the ANT database, pre locating all the movies, adding extra entries...maybe removing ones that are not found on disk...etc. Also nice with this method is you could provide feedback about which movies either on disk or in the DB...or found twice etc, rather than wait until you try to launch the movie for the first time. In my case, there were a very large number of movies where my directory did not QUITE match the title in ANT and needed to be fixed (about 1 in 5). Thanks again for a great plugin! [/QUOTE]

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