My Movies for NMJ - 20 Step Guide (Beta)

[Hi-Jack]

Hi all,

We have been working on allowing My Movies Collection Management to support and store meta-data for the NMJ, and would like help from some of you to beta test the initial version.

For those of you who do not know My Movies, the My Movies Collection Management program is a part of My Movies' product suite which allows you to index your movie collection and store meta-data for many different front-ends.

Notice! My Movies is created for indexing your full movie collection, and it will overwrite any existing "folder.jpg" files in your movie folders based on the data in the Collection Management program.

What My Movies brings to NMJ that the NMJ does not have itself internally is the option for meta-data in other languages than English, to supply high-quality coverart as well as high-quality movie backdrops.

You can read more about the product suite on our website: http://www.mymovies.dk (http://www.mymovies.dk/).

Be aware that this is the initial test of storing meta-data for the NMJ, and while it have been tested internally, it very well may have problems for functionalities that could be improved. It is recommended that you backup your "nmj_database" jukebox folder prior to installing to ensure you can always go back.

We hope that you will help us with testing to ensure that we get any bugs resolved, and give us inputs on what to improve.

You can download the software here:

Windows Media Center (Windows versions that include Windows Media Center):

http://www.mymovies.dk/media/My%20Movies...review.zip (http://www.mymovies.dk/media/My%20Movies%20Collection%20Management%203.19%20Pre %20Release%201%20-%20NMJ%20Jukebox%20Preview.zip)

Collection Management (Windows versions that does not include Windows Media Center):

http://www.mymovies.dk/media/My%20Movies...review.zip (http://www.mymovies.dk/media/My%20Movies%20Collection%20Management%203.19%20Pre %20Release%201%20-%20NMJ%20Jukebox%20Preview.zip)

Be aware that users of Windows XP with Service Pack 3 installed will receive an install error trying to install the needed and included SQL Server 2005 because of compatibility issues between the two.

Below is a quick guide with 20 easy steps to get going:
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We hope for your inputs.

Best regards,

Brian Binnerup
My Movies

[Hi-Jack]

Brian, Congrats with this fine update man, and so fast...
NMJ life starts now...

[tennisbgc]

does this support tv shows?

[Hi-Jack]

mainly movies... series are supported normally but i dunno to what extend for NMJ just yet...

[Binnerup]

does this support tv shows?

It does not yet, no.

[Fordy]

does this support tv shows?

It does not yet, no.

It would be fantastic if you could build in TV support for NMJ, ie. so it still came up seperately as "By Movies", "By TV Shows".


I love your MyMovies software, but WMC cripples me in various ways with it that I don't really want to fix - and then fix all over again when I build a dedicated MyMovies box.

So I decided to get a PCH C-200 instead. And by chance, came across MyMovies for NMJ.

That's the final push for me, I'm definitely going to buy a PCH, and use MyMovies to manage my collection, and sort out metadata.



As a temporary solution, if we installed two seperate instances of Collection Management - one with a database named "Movies", the other "TV" - would we be able to match them up with PCH appropriately?

Just as a final thought too, is this with a MyMovies plugin, similar to how WMC works? Or does this just manage the metadata, with higher quality cover art etc. to be used on the stock UI?

[Hi-Jack]

If you want to seperate both, i would store the movies underneath a share called movies (managed by MyMovies) and a share "series" managed by the player itself for the time being. Until MyMovies is completed to incorporate series properly and add it to the NMJ support...

It will come, for the time being, the combi isn't optimal although it can be scanned.
Maybe Brian has more info than me but the above is what I did for now...

[Fordy]

Ok, thanks for quick reply, that did cross my mind but jus wondered if there might be an issue with folder monitoring mix-ups between the two. Sure some fiddling would sort it.


So does MyMovies just provide the metadata (and online title location?) to PCH, or does it use it's own separate interface alongside the stock UI?

[Hi-Jack]

Nah, you can have MyMovies limit the scanning to a folder /share. Unfortunately NMJ is not capable of that yet for which it is necessary for it to be separated from the movies (since you'll be indexing with NMJ for series and MyMovies for movies...).

MyMovies is able to read out the database afterwards so the efforts should not be lost.

[Fordy]

Ok.. I'm struggling to visualise the setup, but I'm going to buy one soon anyway, so I'll be able to tinker around a bit and understand it all more then. There seems to be nothing of the UI or anything software related on the popcorn hour website - which is odd, and also makes confirming you'll be able to do what you want to do if you buy it difficult.

[khahnsa]

Can someone please indicate what would be required to use the NMJ features - do I need to purchase 2500 points to use this functionality?

Regards,
Khahn

[Hi-Jack]

No, it's absolutely free to use... There is a point system and all but that is not required for use with NMJ and indexing your movies.... I believe it has something to do with uploading contents and get rewarded for it...

[Fordy]

Yeah, you can buy the points too though.

Some bonus features require different amounts of points, 2500 is the max, you get full features then.

Some examples would be, 720p backdrops requires some points, 1080p backdrops is more.

[leegrace]

Woo.. this is really interesting and new for me... I always love to learn something new..

[katerbai]

Hey nice thread post.. Really i appreciate your great work and also for giving us something informative and related to us.. Thanks once again and keep up the good work in future as well..

[peace32]

Hello,
I was going to test the soft, but unfortunately my movies are not put each one in its folder. Any software that can help me organize them in the way "My Movies" can process them ?

Thanks.

[Fordy]

Hello,
I was going to test the soft, but unfortunately my movies are not put each one in its folder. Any software that can help me organize them in the way "My Movies" can process them ?

Thanks.

How are yours currently stored?

Shouldn't be too difficult to write a script to shuffle them around.

[michz_fe]

great, that's nice..so it's mainly on movies...:)

[Flavius]

Hi fellas,


I'm new to MyMovie, and I would like to know if I can use it for Dune Base 3.0. And if yes, is there a step by step how to do it?

thank you in advance,

Flavius

[Mr Eric]

Should not be a problem with a base 3. And just have a look at the page before for a step by step tutorial ;)

[Fordy]

Does the MM for NMJ support TV series' since v4 has been released with greater support?