Organize Movies With Moving Pictures
For many DVR builders, Mediaportal is the engine that powers their media world. This fantastically free piece of software already has MP TV-Series for organizing television shows and now features a matching partner for movies in Moving Pictures.
Now some Mediaportal old-timers may ask, “why can’t these kids use Mediaportal’s My Movies.” Well, the built-in movie management is decent (goes out to IMDB for information, sorts movies in various orders, automatically adds new movies into the database), but I always found it lacking - maybe a 3 out of 4. It’s very limited in viewing options and I felt like it needed too much help to get things right. If I’m going to conquer the world with my DVR, it needs to handle things like this on its own.
Moving Pictures takes movie management to the next level. Just like TV-Series, you’ll need to tell the plugin where you keep your movie files. You can naturally add multiple directories. Like a good plugin should, Moving Pictures then heads out to the internet to grab details for your movie files. If the plugin needs some clarification in matching up a title, it will let you know. Exact matches need no assistance from you. If you find some movies missing, you may want to check to make sure Mediaportal knows which extensions to grab (for example, I had to add .iso). Your DVR may be a media-mogul, but it’s no mind reader.
Once Moving Pictures has churned through your incredible movie library, you can fuss with the main details in the Movie Manager tab. Customize your display art for each movie, adjust details and information, and set your sort order here. Fire up Mediaportal and enjoy the beautiful interface provided by Moving Pictures and the Mediaportal skin artists out there. Your DVR is one step closer to world domination.
Anyone experienced Moving Picture users out there with some insider tips?