MyFilms & Windows Home Server (1 Viewer)

[mark.iwaasa]

I am having trouble getting MyFilms to find my movie files on a HD. The files are on a WHS and it seems like MyFilms can not track down the files. I've tried both ANT movie catalog & eXtreme Movie Manager xml exports. I am wondering if it has to do with the lack of a letter drive in the URL or something else.

Here is a sample for my movie source.

<Movie Number="1" TranslatedTitle="3 10 To Yuma" OriginalTitle="3:10 to Yuma" MediaType="DX50" Category="Crime" Year="2007" Country="" URL="http://imdb.com/title/tt0381849/|" Length="124" Director="James Mangold" Producer="Stuart M. Besser|Dixie J. Capp|Aaron Downing|Ryan Kavanaugh|Cathy Konrad|Lynwood Spinks" Description="Rancher Dan Evans heads into Bisbee to clear up issues concerning the sake of his land when he witnesses the closing events of a stagecoach robbery led by famed outlaw Ben Wade. Shortly thereafter, Wade is captured by the law in Bisbee and Evans finds himself one of the escorts who will take Wade to the 3:10 to Yuma train in Contention for the reward of $200. Evans's effort to take Wade to the station is in part an effort to save his land but also part of an inner battle to determine whether he can be more than just a naive rancher in the eyes of his impetuous and gunslinging son William Evans. The transport to Contention is hazardous and filled with ambushes by Indians, pursuits by Wade's vengeful gang and Wade's own conniving and surreptitious demeanor that makes the ride all the more intense. The rancher Daniel Evans, who lost part of his leg in the Civil War, is broken and owing a large amount to a powerful man in Bisbee. When the outlaw Ben Wade is captured after the heist of a stagecoach, Dan offers to escort the cold blood killer to the city of Contention to take the 3:10 PM train to Yuma to be sent to trial. In return, he would receive US$ 200,00, enough to save his land and give a better life to his family. During their journey, Ben gets closer to Dan while his gang of criminals follows the group to rescue their boss." Rating="8" Actors="Russell Crowe (Ben Wade)|Christian Bale (Dan Evans)|Logan Lerman (William Evans)|Dallas Roberts (Grayson Butterfield)|Ben Foster (Charlie Prince)|Peter Fonda (Byron McElroy)|Vinessa Shaw (Emma Nelson)|Alan Tudyk (Doc Potter)|Luce Rains (Marshal Weathers)|Gretchen Mol (Alice Evans)|Lennie Loftin (Glen Hollander)|Rio Alexander (Campos)|Johnny Whitworth (Darden)|Shawn Howell (Jackson (as Shawn D. Howell))|Pat Ricotti (Jorgensen)|" VideoFormat="DX50" Resolution="608x256" VideoBitrate="761 Kbps" AudioFormat="MPEG-1 Audio layer 3" Size="793.7344" AudioBitRate="112 Kbps" Framerate="23.976" Disks="1" Comments="Just saw the first preview for this, and it was absolutely awesome. Most incredible was in a cast including Christian Bale and Russell Crowe, Ben Foster turned out a mesmerizing performance. He owned the screen in every scene he had. I think this is the beginning of a long and illustrious leading man career for him. The movie was well paced with great music and a hint of humor here and there. I loved this thing from start to finish. It was a taught and thoroughly entertaining film. If you like westerns you'll love this. Christian Bale continues to impress me in every role hes in. He is terrific. The directing is masterful, I really enjoyed this, real action packed. I'm glad I didn't have to wait 4 more months to see this." Picture="1-3-10-To-Yuma.jpg" Source="\\I-server\Videos\Movies\Action\3 10 To Yuma(2007).avi" />

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[Mishref]

I have been using MyFilms + WHS for over a year .. works great. I use OrionHall's (amazing) AMC updater to do the importing.
Here is a sample of my movie source:

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<AntMovieCatalog Format="35" Version="3.5.1 (2008-07-06)" Date="8/8/2008 5:54:15 PM">
<Catalog>
<Properties/>
<Contents>
<Movie Number="1" Checked="False" MediaLabel="Koot" MediaType="HDD" Source="\\Koot\Videos\Movies\10.Items.Or.Less\10.Items.Or.Less.avi" Rating="6.7" OriginalTitle="10 Items or Less" FormattedTitle="10 Items or Less" Director="Brad Silberling" Producer="Brad Silberling (written by)" Country="USA" Category="Comedy, Drama, Romance" Year="2006" Length="82" Actors="Morgan Freeman, Paz Vega, Jonah Hill, Alexandra Berardi, Bobby Cannavale, Anne Dudek, Jennifer Echols, Vivianne Nacif, Leonardo Nam, Scott Norris, Kumar Pallana, Jim Parsons, Hector Atreyu Ruiz, Emiliano Torres, Shawn Calizo, Ski Carr, Danny DeVito, Alexis Hernandez, Matthew Perales" URL="http://imdb.com/title/tt0499603" Description=""You Are Who You Meet"||An actor (Freeman) prepping for an upcoming role meets a quirky grocery clerk (Vega), and the pair hit the road to show one another their respective worlds. |" Comments="This movie is a little ray of sunshine in a dark season. It celebrates a quality best described as plain old friendliness. Morgan Freeman plays a character very like Freeman himself--a successful actor pushing 70. He has traveled to a small, rather grimy grocery store intending to research a part he might play, as a manager of such a place. He soon beguiles the staff and the customers, especially the lovely, if cranky, young woman (Paz Vega) who presides over the "10 items or less" checkout lane.||10 Items Or Less doesn't have a big statement to make and doesn't pretend that it does. It follows Freeman and Vega as they become friendly, and as the older man offers his counsel, in exchange for a ride home--the movie-company gofer who is supposed to pick him up never shows and Freeman has forgotten his own phone number so he can't call for help. I had a little case of the blues on a gray Sunday afternoon in New York City and this flick cured what ailed me.|" VideoFormat="XviD" VideoBitrate="728" AudioFormat="AC3" AudioBitrate="438" Resolution="592x320" Framerate="23.976" Languages="English" Size="701" Picture="movies_1.jpg"/>

<Movie Number="2" Checked="False" MediaLabel="Koot" MediaType="HDD" Source="\\Koot\Videos\Movies\11-14\11-14.avi" Rating="7.3" OriginalTitle="11:14" FormattedTitle="11:14" Director="Greg Marcks" Producer="Greg Marcks" Country="USA, Canada" Category="Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller" Year="2003" Length="86" Actors="Henry Thomas, Blake Heron, Barbara Hershey, Clark Gregg, Hilary Swank, Shawn Hatosy, Stark Sands, Colin Hanks, Ben Foster, Patrick Swayze, Rachael Leigh Cook, Jason Segel, Rick Gomez" URL="http://imdb.com/title/tt0331811" Description=""Fate can change in seconds"||The events leading up to an 11:14 PM car crash, from five very different perspectives. |" Comments="Half an hour or less of one night, two traffic accidents, one severed body part, several crimes or felonies, one silly dog, at least one spectacularly bad decision per character and two deaths make for 90 minutes of pure high-adrenalin fun. And smart fun at that! Of course, it's a bit like, say, Pulp Fiction on Vodka/Red Bull, but hey, I've been rarely entertained so well by other people's fiascoes.||The stories of about a dozen American small-towners intersect at 11:14 one night. Everybody has their own agenda, be it vandalism, fast money, sex, protecting the reputation of their daughter, or just to do their job, and most of them have had too much too drink - which leads to the aforementioned bad decisions. Some great acting (Shawn Hatosy and Patrick Swayze stand out), dynamic camera work and fast pacing keep 11:14 moving and viewers on their toes. And of course, there's always one more twist...||I saw 11:14 pre-release at the Fantasy Filmfest, and it was received very well. If film distributors are just a little smarter than the characters in this film, this should be a smash!|" VideoFormat="DivX 5" VideoBitrate="996" AudioFormat="MPEG-1 Audio layer 3" AudioBitrate="145" Resolution="640x336" Framerate="25.000" Languages="English" Size="699" Picture="final-1-24-2008_2.jpg"/>

<Movie Number="3" Checked="False" MediaLabel="Koot" MediaType="HDD" Source="\\Koot\Videos\Movies\1408.DC.DVDRip.XviD-NeDiVx\1408.avi" Rating="7.1" OriginalTitle="1408" FormattedTitle="1408" Director="Mikael Håfström" Producer="Matt Greenberg (screenplay), Scott Alexander (screenplay)" Country="USA" Category="Drama, Horror, Thriller" Year="2007" Length="104" Actors="John Cusack, Paul Birchard, Margot Leicester, Walter Lewis, Eric Meyers, David Nicholson, Holly Hayes, Alexandra Silber, Johann Urb, Andrew Lee Potts, Tony Shalhoub, Emily Harvey, William Armstrong, Kim Thomson, Drew Powell" URL="http://imdb.com/title/tt0450385" Description=""The Dolphin Hotel invites you to stay in any of its stunning rooms. Except one."||A man who specializes in debunking paranormal occurrences checks into the fabled room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel. Soon after settling in, he confronts genuine terror. |" Comments="While doing some research before reviewing 1408, I was shocked to discover that this was the first time since 2004's Riding the Bullet that a film based on a Stephen King story had gotten the big screen treatment. 1408 marks somewhat of a comeback to the silver screen for the author after mainly working with television the past couple years. Director Mikael Hafstrom has created the most atmospheric and downright tense thriller I can think of so far this year. The premise may be thin, and yeah, it doesn't always make a lot of sense. But, is it ever effective.||Mike Enslin (John Cusack) used to be a promising author until the untimely death of his young daughter, Katie (Jasmine Jessica Anthony). He now spends his time writing trashy paranormal novels about the world's most haunted areas. He travels the world, doing research by staying overnight at places that are supposed to be haunted, gets some colorful background info that he can use for material, and then moves on to his next job. One day, Mike receives a postcard informing him of an old hotel in New York City called the Dolphin Hotel, which is supposed to have a room that has quite the history. Doing some private research, he learns that the Dolphin has had a long and tragic history of deaths, all of them surrounding the guests that have stayed in Room 1408. Mike books the room, despite the warnings of the hotel manager, Gerald Olin (Samuel L.Jackson). Entering the room, nothing seems ominous at first. But then, the room itself begins to take on a life of its own, and begins tormenting Mike with various ghostly apparitions, mind tricks, and even displaying his own painful past before him in various ways. ||1408 is the second thriller set around a hotel released in less than two months (the other being April's Vacancy), and is by far the superior film. The film is actually quite subtle in its way of creeping us out and disturbing us, which is a nice change of pace from the recent Hostel: Part II. Rather than bombard the audience with ghostly special effects and gore, the movie gets under your skin and goes for a much more psychological approach. The screenplay by Matt Greenberg, Scott Alexander, and Larry Karaszewski, wisely does not even attempt to explain Room 1408. It's just a very evil presence that can somehow look deep within troubled souls, and torture them to death with their own personal demons. In the wrong hands, this material could have been laughable. Even though the movie frequently flies into the realm of the unbelievable, it manages to somehow stay grounded.||A lot of this has to do with the fact that the film never loses its way, and become an excuse to throw as many special effects and jump scares into the movie as it possibly can. The human element of Mike Enslin is always at the center of the story itself, and its scares. The movie is built around the fact that he is forced to face his personal demons the longer he stays in his room, as well as try to keep his mind in check as various nightmarish hallucinations are paraded before him. It's much more effective than the usual characters that have passed as villains in recent paranormal films (usually gray-skinned people with hair over their faces), and it never once becomes heavy-handed or preachy. This is also a tricky balance to pull off. When the room started showing him flashbacks of Mike's own past, I grew nervous, thinking that the movie was going to start hitting us over the head with morales. Fortunately, it never once loses its sense of the eerie, and remains appropriately unsettling throughout.||At the center of the movie is John Cusack, who literally has to carry the movie almost by himself. This is essentially a one-man show for most of its running time, with fleeting apparitions being his main companions. Cusack has long been a favorite of mine, and this is one of his stronger recent roles. He not only has to carry almost the entire film on his own, but he also has to convincingly act like he is slowly going insane without hamming it up, or losing his personality. Any actor can tell you that madness is a difficult thing to depict. He strikes a very good balance, and remains believable throughout. Samuel L. Jackson is also notable in his small, but no less important, role as the manager who tries to talk Mike out of his decision to stay in the room. And then, of course, there is Room 1408, which is a character itself. The way it is constantly changing itself, right down to the paintings on the wall, creates an effectively creepy atmosphere that is continuously bizarre, but never so much so that we lose our sense to believe.||1408 succeeds where so many other films have failed in that it is not about apparitions jumping out at the actors or lurking in dark shadows. It digs much deeper for its horror than simple jolt thrills, and becomes an effectively thrilling horror film. It could be argued that the whole thing loses some weight when we apply logic to the story. But seriously, who wants to apply logic to a movie about an evil hotel room that can read your mind? When all is said and done, 1408 is a reminder of what horror can do. It can do so much more than thrill us. It can also make us laugh and leave us captivated. Perhaps what's more surprising than the fact that the movie can accomplish all that is that so few other horror films can.|" VideoFormat="XviD" VideoBitrate="1" AudioFormat="MPEG-1 Audio layer 3" AudioBitrate="122" Resolution="624x256" Framerate="23.976" Languages="English" Size="692" Picture="final-1-24-2008_3.jpg"/>

<Movie Number="4" Checked="False" MediaLabel="Koot" MediaType="HDD" Source="\\Koot\Videos\Movies\16 Blocks\16.Blocks.avi" Rating="6.7" OriginalTitle="16 Blocks" TranslatedTitle="Sixteen Blocks (USA) (alternative spelling)" FormattedTitle="16 Blocks (Sixteen Blocks (USA) (alternative spelling))" Director="Richard Donner" Producer="Richard Wenk (written by)" Country="Germany, USA" Category="Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller" Year="2006" Length="105" Actors="Bruce Willis, Mos Def, David Morse, Jenna Stern, Casey Sander, Cylk Cozart, David Zayas, Robert Racki, Patrick Garrow, Sasha Roiz, Conrad Pla, Hechter Ubarry, Richard Fitzpatrick, Peter McRobbie, Michael F. Keenan" URL="http://imdb.com/title/tt0450232" Description=""For a New York cop and his witness, the distance between life and death just got very short."||An aging cop is assigned the ordinary task of escorting a fast-talking witness from police custody to a courthouse. There are however forces at work trying to stop prevent them from making it. |" Comments="This is not a remake of "The Gauntlet," though the theme is a familiar one. There are, in fact, several movies with similar plots; "3:10 to Yuma" and "Narrow Margin" come to mind. A reviewer emailed me that "Midnight Run" not only has a story like "16 Blocks" but Bruce Willis' character Jack Mosley has a name that is a composite of the movie names for two of the leading roles in "Midnight Run": Robert De Niro's Jack Walsh and Yaphet Kotto's FBI Agent Alonzo Mosely. This, of course, may be mere coincidence. Though the story may seem like déjà vu, the action is fast paced making this an exciting film to watch.||Anyone who doubts that Bruce Willis can act needs only watch his standout performance in "Pulp Fiction" to see what depth this actor can bring to a demanding role. The role of Jack Mosely may not be challenging to Willis, but he still gives it all he's got which is plenty. Playing the part of an over the hill New York cop with a game leg, nothing to live for, and a drinking problem seems easy for Willis to make it all believable.||The criminal, Eddie Bunker, Jack must deliver to testify within a certain time frame is played with gusto by hip-hop artist Mos Def. Eddie is the most verbose prisoner ever. He rattles on and on about anything that comes to mind, some of it funny, some of it trite. He also has a riddle that is not answered till near the end of the film.||A standout performance is delivered by David Morse as the leader of the dirty cops, Frank Nugent. Morse is in danger of becoming typecast as a dishonest lawman. Hopefully he will become more diversified in his roles since he is such a talented actor.||This is another winner from action director Richard Donner. If you like his other successful concoctions such as the "Lethal Weapon" flicks, "Superman," "Conspiracy Theory," and "The Omen," then you will certainly enjoy "16 Blocks."|" VideoFormat="XviD" VideoBitrate="845" AudioFormat="MPEG-1 Audio layer 3" AudioBitrate="119" Resolution="608x352" Framerate="25.000" Languages="English" Size="697" Picture="final-1-24-2008_4.jpg"/>

<Movie Number="9" Checked="False" MediaLabel="Koot" MediaType="HDD" Source="\\Koot\Videos\Movies\A Lot Like Love\A lot like love.avi" Rating="6.2" OriginalTitle="A Lot Like Love" FormattedTitle="A Lot Like Love" Director="Nigel Cole" Producer="Colin Patrick Lynch (written by)" Country="USA" Category="Comedy, Drama, Romance" Year="2005" Length="107" Actors="Amanda Peet, Ashton Kutcher, Taryn Manning, Aimee Garcia, Lee Garlington, Birdie M. Hale, Tyrone Giordano, Melissa van der Schyff, Theresa Spruill, James Read, Molly Cheek, Sarah Ann Morris, Gabriel Mann, Kathryn Hahn, Ali Larter" URL="http://imdb.com/title/tt0391304" Description=""There's nothing better than a great romance... to ruin a perfectly good friendship."||On a flight from Los Angeles to New York, Oliver (Kutcher) and Emily (Peet) make a connection, only...|more|" Comments="Perhaps this film won't inspire the twenty-something folks at whom it was marketed. They might not appreciate its message, after all, when you're young, life stretches out before you like an eternity. But if you're over 30 and haven't found that perfect person to share your life with, it might really touch you... ||This is the most romantic movie I have seen in years. As a regular armchair film critic who happens to love romantic comedies but finds the quality of most to be sorely lacking, I usually start to gnaw away at a film within the first five minutes. But A Lot Like Love immediately embarks on a tortuous journey of love's most confounding mileposts. The fireworks, the mystery, the seduction, the retreat... A guy who wants to get "all his ducks in a line," and a gal who deals with whatever happens to come her way, help each other loosen up their respective rigid perspectives on how life should be lived.||The chemistry between Oliver and Emily percolates over a span of nearly seven years but neither lets it come to a full boil lest it ruin their plans. Kutcher and Peet each deliver endearing performances and actually play against the urge to gratuitously combust making for just the right emotional veracity and sexual tension to keep it real. No "just add water" instant love here. These two take their time to fall into the soup.||This film is certainly easy to look at what with the hip modern beauty of both of its stars decorating every shot. The fly-on-the-wall perspective of watching these two people awkwardly and trepidaciously flirt with what might be, kept my attention rapt, and experiencing it in the moment, I can honestly say that I did not know what was going to happen next.||If anyone has ever had that "friend" that you've know for years, you know you have feelings for them, appreciate their loyalty, and take their bad with their good (because after all, you're "just friends"), but have spent years keeping an eye out for something better, or just not taken that "next step" because of geography, peer-pressure, or fear of rejection, you will appreciate the honesty and sentiment of this story.||You'll definitely get a refresher course in the fact that life is indeed short and a lot can happen when you're not paying attention. Enjoy every moment you can, and take some risks or you'll be looking back on an awful lot of regret. A Lot Like Love is funny and sad, playful and poignant, and was over before I wanted it to be. For me, this movie is a lot like life.|" VideoFormat="XviD" VideoBitrate="753" AudioFormat="MPEG-1 Audio layer 3" AudioBitrate="115" Resolution="560x304" Framerate="23.976" Languages="American Sign Language, English" Size="696" Picture="final-1-24-2008_9.jpg"/>

 

[mark.iwaasa]

re: database software

Do you use ANT for your movie database? If so, I'll try another Xml export using the AMC Updater.

 

[Mishref]

I am using AMC Updater v6.0 and Ant Movie Catalog v3.5.1.