I'm undecided, Mediabrowser feels smoother, but I prefer the control from My Movies. I keep getting incorrect images for some films. Unleashed was also known as Danny The Dog in other countries, The film title Unleashed shows in MediaBrowser, But I get a DVD image of Danny The Dog. Irritatingly tbh. Also I have The Transporter collection, in MyMovies I can put it as a collection and add discs. While in mediabrowser it puts them as seperate movies, and is unable to get images for films 2+3. I can understand it's a beta, but i'm real pernickety. Will keep up with updates and so on.
why is this so hard. 1) rip DVD to HDD 2) compress using DVD shrink if space is issue. 2) play with windows media player/ add to collection job done lol changing formats etc seems to be making things complicated
that's exactly what My Movies does, just without all the manual steps. put in disc, rip, done. it automatically adds it to your media centre library with movie poster, synopsis, and actor biographies
downloading my movies now, all ready had anydvd in place but hit the problem of burning images to disc as there all bigger than 4.4GB, Started using DVDshrink the other day. However none of this solved my problem, and now i think i too have found a way to do it. Basically i wanted to backup all my DVD's to watch on the machine hassle free when ever, and now its solved! yay! Now also means another 1Tb drive is required, i stopped counting DVD's when i got to 250.. oh dear my poor wages! Now has lovefilm account, and software for backing up...... i shall let others fill in the gaps! hahahaha cant be the only one doing it!
Wasn't hard, just wanted a friendly user interface. FOD has solved it. I had not realised that TS folders could be played by WMC. BTW, Have been reading up on mediabrowser and been able to sort some missing posters and so on. adding years at end helps. Only trouble is incorrect posters, still waiting for mediabrowser to send me a activation email so i can chane stuff.
there are a few metadata apps i use for mediabrowser. metabrowser and mediascout. they each do one thing the other doesn't, but one is in active development and one isn't, and the active one is rapidly approaching the point i'll only need one. and don't ask me which one is which, i always forget as always, metadata is key to providing a cohesive experience. it's a mission to get right. but we're slowly getting there. when it comes to movies and tv shows the metadata DBs are about as good as when CDDB first started, but they're getting better all the time.
I always used XBMC and set up my files to be scraped. I'm not sure how much that helps (with getting show/movie information) when compared to copying the VIDEO_TS folders from DVDs. Letting TheTVDB take care of television shows and the IMDB take care of movies always seemed easier. Of course, now that I read back a touch, that doesn't exactly help with the 'native' part of windows.
