Video browser, is a little plugin for Vista MCE that lets you browse your videos the way they were meant to be browsed.–
Here is a very rough initial release of my video browsing plugin for Vista MCE. It seems pretty functional though it still does have a few quirks.
New in this release:
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Supports metadata for both TV shows and movies
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DVD playback direct from the hard disk
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Native Vista MCE plug-in (ported from XBAP for MCML) - Meaning the remote and scaling should work better
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The installer is available “here”:http://www.samsaffron.com/downloads/1.
I have not tested this on XBOX extenders or Vista X64.
To get metadata for your movies use “MyMovies”:http://www.mymovies.dk/
To get metadata for your TV shows use “the following ruby script”:http://www.samsaffron.com/tvdb_scraper.rb.
You will have to install Ruby first and type: Ruby scraper.rb [Path for TV shows] in the command line.
The Ruby script is provided as is to the community using the public domain licensing Sqlite uses. The script contains a useful command line switch which will rename your videos to a more human readable format. It uses “thetvdb”:http://thetvdb.com/ as the source for its meta data.
There are quite a few areas in the plugin that need improvement, I will address them in a future version:
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Navigation between listview, sorting area and now playing window needs to be improved - it does not work in a predictable way.
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First time you navigate to a page the thumbnail on the left is not refreshed.
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When holding down the up or down remote buttons continuously it does not zoom through the list.
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I lost my new videos section (this was an area that sorted the entire collection by date)
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Not displaying all the available metadata
Hope you enjoy this, please feel free to comment or post any suggestions.