New Feature: IMDb+ Custom Categories (1 Viewer)

RoChess

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    Working on a new IMDb+ feature that would add a few 'Custom Categories' to Moving-Pictures that will hopefully lead to community provided lists that can be enjoyed by us all. The initial version will start off with a few categories that I've worked on so far, which as the system gets refined will hopefully expand into more.

    Still faced with a few implementation issues, such as how to deal with lists that relate to movies not yet present in the users catalog. One of the issues that I'm faced with I created a Moving-Pictures issue for:


    So if others can please 'star' that one, it will help a lot. Of course if any of you are good at C# and know how to write a patch for Moving-Pictures, then please go for it :D

    The initial custom categories I've come up with so far are:

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    Code:
    IMDb+
      |
      |---- Blockbusters  (this will show movies with more then 30,000 votes)
      |
    Code:
      |
      |---- Collections
      |          |
      |          |---- Action
      |          |          |
      |          |          |---- Bad Boys
      |          |          |---- Behind Enemy Lines
      |          |          |---- Bourne
      |          |          |---- Die Hard
      |          |          |---- Dirty Harry
      |          |          |---- Jack Ryan
      |          |          |---- James Bond
      |          |          |---- Mission: Impossible
      |          |          |---- Rambo
      |          |          |---- Rocky
      |          |          |---- The Fast and the Furious
      |          |          |---- The Transporter
      |          |          |---- Universal Soldiers
      |          |          |---- xXx
      |          |
      |          |---- Adventure
      |          |          |
      |          |          |---- Indiana Jones
      |          |          |---- National Treasure
      |          |          |---- Pirates Of The Caribbean
      |          |
      |          |---- Animation/Kids
      |          |          |
      |          |          |---- Ice Age
      |          |          |---- Shrek
      |          |          |---- Spy Kids
      |          |          |---- The Karate Kid
      |          |          |---- The Lion King
      |          |          |---- Toy Story
      |          |
      |          |---- Comedy
      |          |          |
      |          |          |---- American Pie
      |          |          |---- Austin Powers
      |          |          |---- Crocodile Dundee
      |          |          |---- Meet the Parents
      |          |          |---- Police Academy
      |          |
      |          |---- Crime
      |          |          |
      |          |          |---- Ocean's Trilogy
      |          |          |---- The Godfather
      |          |
      |          |---- Fantasy
      |          |          |
      |          |          |---- Highlander
      |          |          |---- Harry Potter
      |          |          |---- The Chronicles of Narnia
      |          |          |---- The Lord of the Rings
      |          |          |---- The Mummy
      |          |
      |          |---- Horror
      |          |          |
      |          |          |---- A Nightmare on Elm Street
      |          |          |---- Final Destination
      |          |          |---- Friday the 13th
      |          |          |---- Halloween
      |          |          |---- Hannibal
      |          |
      |          |---- Sci-Fi
      |          |          |
      |          |          |---- Alien
      |          |          |---- Back to the Future
      |          |          |---- Jurassic Park
      |          |          |---- Mad Max
      |          |          |---- Planet of the Apes
      |          |          |---- RoboCop
      |          |          |---- Star Trek
      |          |          |---- Star Wars
      |          |          |---- Terminator
      |          |          |---- The Chronicles Of Riddick
      |          |          |---- The Matrix
      |          |          |---- Transformers
      |          |
      |          |---- Superheroes
      |          |          |
      |          |          |---- Batman
      |          |          |---- Marvel's Avengers
      |          |          |---- Spider-Man
      |          |          |---- Superman
      |          |          |---- X-Men
      |          |
      |          |---- Vampires/Zombies
      |                     |
      |                     |---- Blade
      |                     |---- Resident Evil
      |                     |---- Twilight Saga
      |                     |---- Underworld
      |
    Code:
      |
      |---- Movies from A-Z
      |          |
      |          |---- #
      |          |---- A
      |          |---- .
      |          |---- .
      |          |---- Z
      |
    Code:
      |
      |---- Top 10s - American Film Institute
      |          |
      |          |---- AFI: Top 10 Animation
      |          |          |
      |          |          |---- #1
      |          |          |---- #.
      |          |          |---- #10
      |          |
      |          |---- AFI: Top 10 Romantic Comedy
      |          |          |
      |          |          |---- #1
      |          |          |---- #.
      |          |          |---- #10
      |          |
      |          |---- AFI: Top 10 Western
      |          |          |
      |          |          |---- #1
      |          |          |---- #.
      |          |          |---- #10
      |          |
      |          |---- AFI: Top 10 Sports
      |          |          |
      |          |          |---- #1
      |          |          |---- #.
      |          |          |---- #10
      |          |
      |          |---- AFI: Top 10 Mystery
      |          |          |
      |          |          |---- #1
      |          |          |---- #.
      |          |          |---- #10
      |          |
      |          |---- AFI: Top 10 Fantasy
      |          |          |
      |          |          |---- #1
      |          |          |---- #.
      |          |          |---- #10
      |          |
      |          |---- AFI: Top 10 Sci-Fi
      |          |          |
      |          |          |---- #1
      |          |          |---- #.
      |          |          |---- #10
      |          |
      |          |---- AFI: Top 10 Gangster
      |          |          |
      |          |          |---- #1
      |          |          |---- #.
      |          |          |---- #10
      |          |
      |          |---- AFI: Top 10 Courtroom Drama
      |          |          |
      |          |          |---- #1
      |          |          |---- #.
      |          |          |---- #10
      |          |
      |          |---- AFI: Top 10 Epic
      |          |          |
      |          |          |---- #1
      |          |          |---- #.
      |          |          |---- #10
      |          |
      |          |---- AFI: Top 10 Funniest Movies
      |                     |
      |                     |---- #1
      |                     |---- #.
      |                     |---- #10
      |
    Code:
      |
      |---- Top 20 - Female Actors
      |          |
      |          |---- Julia Roberts
      |          |---- Meryl Streep
      |          |---- Cate Blanchett
      |          |---- Kate Winslet
      |          |---- Jodie Foster
      |          |---- Nicole Kidman
      |          |---- Sandra Bullock
      |          |---- Halle Berry
      |          |---- Emma Thompson
      |          |---- Angelina Jolie
      |          |---- Julianne Moore
      |          |---- Susan Sarandon
      |          |---- Helen Mirren
      |          |---- Gwyneth Paltrow
      |          |---- Hilary Swank
      |          |---- Cameron Diaz
      |          |---- Renée Zellweger
      |          |---- Meg Ryan
      |          |---- Jennifer Aniston
      |          |---- Judi Dench
      |
      |---- Top 20 - Male Actors
                 |
                 |---- Tom Hanks
                 |---- Russell Crowe
                 |---- Denzel Washington
                 |---- Johnny Depp
                 |---- Sean Penn
                 |---- Tom Cruise
                 |---- Will Smith
                 |---- George Clooney
                 |---- Leonardo DiCaprio
                 |---- Brad Pitt
                 |---- Daniel Day-Lewis
                 |---- Kevin Spacey
                 |---- Jim Carrey
                 |---- Ian McKellen
                 |---- Morgan Freeman
                 |---- Nicolas Cage
                 |---- Christian Bale
                 |---- Robert Downey Jr.
                 |---- Heath Ledger
                 |---- Jeff Bridges
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    With the exception of the AFI Top 10 lists that show a single movie, each category entry would show *ALL* the movies you have in your collection that match the criteria of the filters in question. With the existing methods already supported by Moving-Pictures config you will be able to drag-and-drop single filters or whole groups to other categories, so that you can customize it to your personal preference.

    The "IMDb+" category group will be more like an easy template to use.

    I've used the AFI website and IMDb website as source for these initial list, alongside the 'Blockbuster' one I use on my own system that is very popular with friends coming over and a rough selection on collections from the default rename database. Of course I could have added a lot more series, but the inital idea was to only have like 10 of the extremly popular collections that are at the least a Trilogy, but that was hard to decide on, so then to make the list somewhat easier to view added the Genres and kept list down to 60.

    Was able to add one more complex entry as well as a bonus, the "Marvel's Avengers" one to be exact, which links the "Iron Man" movies together with "Thor", "Captain America" and the future ones as they are tied together via the Samuel L. Jackson cameo scene at the end of most of those movies. Perhaps this can be expanded later into custom categories such as for example "Car Movies", that would then contain 'Bullitt', 'Fast & Furious' movies, 'Christine', etc.

    Of course this entire system makes more sense for the users who have a lot of movies in their collection, as you could otherwise just open the default "All Movies" and find the movies in question that way. But I find from comments that there is a growing group of users with 400+ movies, and then a custom category system such as this one can make life much easier.

    I'm sure everybody has their own ideas on how they would like to see it work, which is why I thought it was a good idea to post this now before finalizing the initial version. So lets hear it please :D

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    Side Note: I know that ideally this system gets integrated into MovPic itself, and I've even created issue #1013 for that a while ago that would work in an offline way, but the MovPic codebase is too big for me to comprehend on what all needs to be adjusted then. I've seen other small plugins add categories to MovPic and their code was at least understandable to me.

    There will still be benefits to the online sharing system I got in mind for IMDb+, but perhaps that can eventually make its way into Moving-Pictures as well. Of course just like MovPic expands on function that MediaPortal already does, so is the underlying idea that IMDb+ does the same to MovPic.
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    TheBatfink

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    Is there a central maintained list somewhere? What happens if you get bored or can no longer work on updating the lists?

    I think its a great idea if nothing else other than I don't have to keep making these filters in movingp :)
     

    RoChess

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    Is there a central maintained list somewhere? What happens if you get bored or can no longer work on updating the lists?

    I think its a great idea if nothing else other than I don't have to keep making these filters in movingp :)

    It's a google code hosted open source project, it would be easy to assign other people as commiters as well so they can make modifications to the files. And if I would be unable to work on it myself, I would assign somebody else to become owner of the project.

    But I do not have any intention on an early demise, nor to become bored :cool:

    Worst case scenario, somebody can grab the source code, fork it and fix it to work from another location, or maybe a local file system. Eventually the idea is to grow into something more powerful like that, this was just a little brainstorm on the initial version to get things started and possibly adjust things based on input from others.
     

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