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<blockquote data-quote="tbrg78" data-source="post: 960287" data-attributes="member: 131634"><p>Hi folks,</p><p> </p><p>I'm dealing with movies and mediaportal for some time now, and just wanted to ask, if anybody knows a reason for why the software situation is like it is.. a big mess!</p><p> </p><p>Installing, using and managing a fully working mediacenter installation needs professional knowhow, patience, time and strong nervs to get anywhere near.</p><p>There is no standard for exporting/importing movie details (including artwork).</p><p>There is no stable and bullet-proof application for storing, creating and scraping movie details.</p><p>There are plugins, working with dedicated skins only, throwing errors, breaking cofigurations.</p><p>There are many different active projects and developers, trying their best, but it seems, there is no teamwork.</p><p>I cannot count how many different scraper scripts and software solutions I tried the last months, to get a decent mediacollection and viewing experience.. and I'm not done yet.</p><p> </p><p>So i've been through mediaportal re/installations, bugs, updates, extensions, skins, hours of manual work getting movie details and artwork straight. Testing MediaManagers, plugins, TV-Server setups, dvb-t cards/sticks and drivers, trying import and export helpers and so on.</p><p> </p><p>To make a long story short, it's just a mess. As someone being relatively new to all this, it is a complete new world, a world where nothing works out of the box, where countless hours of reading forum posts is neccesary to get the simplest things done.</p><p> </p><p>Why is that ?! I mean collecting movies is surely around for many years, using the help of computers and software is as old as any VHS-tape you might still have on your shelf.. o)</p><p> </p><p>I'm a software developer myself, diving into mediacenter stuff half a year ago. Still trying to find some convenient way of adding new movies, exchanging data between different software and so on. I just can't believe this segment has not yet come to a level, where anybody is able to run, alter and just *use* a mediacenter and mediacollection as he would use a hair brush and his mobile phone. </p><p> </p><p>This is no rant! I'm using computers for about 20 years now, I've seen high quality open-source and closed-source projects, delivering a "wow!" user experience. Think of blender, gimp, linux, web-browsers, php, apache, java, trillian, open office and free games like hurrican and so on.. just to name a few really well done pieces of complex software.</p><p> </p><p>Watching movies and collecting them is something a lot of people spend time with,i just don't get why there is no software handling this without headache.</p><p> </p><p>Thanks for reading.. o)</p><p>Rob.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tbrg78, post: 960287, member: 131634"] Hi folks, I'm dealing with movies and mediaportal for some time now, and just wanted to ask, if anybody knows a reason for why the software situation is like it is.. a big mess! Installing, using and managing a fully working mediacenter installation needs professional knowhow, patience, time and strong nervs to get anywhere near. There is no standard for exporting/importing movie details (including artwork). There is no stable and bullet-proof application for storing, creating and scraping movie details. There are plugins, working with dedicated skins only, throwing errors, breaking cofigurations. There are many different active projects and developers, trying their best, but it seems, there is no teamwork. I cannot count how many different scraper scripts and software solutions I tried the last months, to get a decent mediacollection and viewing experience.. and I'm not done yet. So i've been through mediaportal re/installations, bugs, updates, extensions, skins, hours of manual work getting movie details and artwork straight. Testing MediaManagers, plugins, TV-Server setups, dvb-t cards/sticks and drivers, trying import and export helpers and so on. To make a long story short, it's just a mess. As someone being relatively new to all this, it is a complete new world, a world where nothing works out of the box, where countless hours of reading forum posts is neccesary to get the simplest things done. Why is that ?! I mean collecting movies is surely around for many years, using the help of computers and software is as old as any VHS-tape you might still have on your shelf.. o) I'm a software developer myself, diving into mediacenter stuff half a year ago. Still trying to find some convenient way of adding new movies, exchanging data between different software and so on. I just can't believe this segment has not yet come to a level, where anybody is able to run, alter and just *use* a mediacenter and mediacollection as he would use a hair brush and his mobile phone. This is no rant! I'm using computers for about 20 years now, I've seen high quality open-source and closed-source projects, delivering a "wow!" user experience. Think of blender, gimp, linux, web-browsers, php, apache, java, trillian, open office and free games like hurrican and so on.. just to name a few really well done pieces of complex software. Watching movies and collecting them is something a lot of people spend time with,i just don't get why there is no software handling this without headache. Thanks for reading.. o) Rob. [/QUOTE]
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