[WhiteShadow]

Hello, I would like to offer the community a new feature of our movie catalog program Movienizer - creating a movie catalog for Dune HD players. After adding movies to the program (simply add titles, and the program will download information about the movie) you can create a catalog and upload it to Dune. Just select "Tools" - "Create Dune movie catalog". A wizard will be shown, it will guide you through the rest of the process.
What is the benefit?

• Instead of simple list of filenames you get covers, movie titles etc.
• You can click on a cover to get more detailed information about the movie: description, shots, list of actors, ratings, and so on.
• Playlist for TV series can be created.
• It is possible to browse your movies by genres, actors, years etc.

The program comes with a few simple patterns (a pattern creates 'look and feel' of your movie catalog). It is possible (and pretty simple) to create your own pattern. For example, you can take a look at a third-party pattern here:
http://movienizer.com/dune-templates.htm



The latest stable version of Movienizer can be downloaded here:
www.movienizer.com/movienizer.exe

Feedback and bug reports would be great.

Note: The catalog may not work correctly on older versions of Dune's firmware.

General information about Movienizer: The trial version of the program allows adding up to 50 movies to your collection. A one computer personal license costs $39.95.

[nnay_07]

I know at least 3 programs out there doing the same job for free: Yadis, Dune explorer 2 and wappiti...
What are the key advantage of your solution over those programs?

[edparker50]

I just downloaded it and only played with it for a couple of minutes so this is a sort of at a glance review. First off thanks to the people at movienizer for their effort and work they put into it. looks like you have the option to pick or unpick what you want to see so looks customizable.

I only tried the non index feature and even thought its still in beta not bad for a first run. I used the third party template since i like the layout which is the bottom picture in the original post. One thing to remember is this is a movie cataloging software with support for Dune rather than a strictly for Dune indexing software. If more third party templates come out from some really talented people this could be nice. Problem is the other programs nnay_07 mentioned are more polished and will improve even more over time and free.

I used the third party template(Bloody Mary) which looks like the Zappati temple and
1) Looks like background images come from IMDB and not themoviedb.org so not a high quality to my eyes when viewing.
2) When looking at the icons if there are a lot of movies the icon selected is enlarged but to me not enough so maybe a little hard to see whats selected (to me Zappati still has the same problem as well)
3) Background is red man do i hate red

[WhiteShadow]

Originally Posted by nnay_07 I know at least 3 programs out there doing the same job for free: Yadis, Dune explorer 2 and wappiti... What are the key advantage of your solution over those programs?

Thank you for your question. First of all, please note that creating illustrated catalogs for Dune is not the sole purpose of our program. Movienizer is a specialized movie organizer that we've been developing more than 5 years. Support for Dune is just a feature from its toolbox. That is we offer a full-featured solution for movie lovers, and creating a movie catalog for Dune is a bonus.

But I'd like to go into detail and to talk about differences.

- Information about movies can be downloaded using quite a number of scripts with the support for multiple languages (English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese, Russian, ...) from various sites (IMDB, Blu-Ray.com, DVDEmpire, OFDB, Kinopoisk, ...).

- Information about movies is stored in a database, every field (cast/crew list, covers, shots etc.) can be edited.

- After creating a catalog you can play movies stored on the local computer, on the HDD of Dune, on an external hard drive that you connect to Dune, on a NAS. The program will provide correct links to the files/directories. Usual video files, as well as DVD/Blu Ray folders are supported.

- Look and feel of the catalog can be easily customized. The pattern itself is stored in HTML + CSS, you can use your own pictures for genres, countries etc. Besides you can set up number of columns/rows for output of covers and other parameters directly in the program. For the information page of every movie (see the last screenshot from my first post), you can use any custom cover / poster or other background.

- The catalog offers some categories for easy navigation: movies, TV series, alphabetically (shows the first letters only of the available movies), genres, studios, location, actors, directors. That is you can not just browse movie covers, but also chose movies by actors (their photos and names are shown). You can create your catalog for certain files or for folders with video files.

- Movie files may be stored in a single folder. The catalog for Dune can be created in any place. For example, on the Dune's HDD or in some NAS folder.

- From files of TV series, shots are taken automatically and used as covers. It is also possible to play all episodes at once (an additional playlist is created).

PS: A few words about the story behind the module for creating Dune catalogs. We started working on it about 3 months ago. The project was developed by 5 persons on continuing basis + 2 months was spent to discuss features on the Russian forum http://forum.hdtv.ru (28 pages of the discussion). We purchased a Dune BD Prime with a HDD and a Wi-Fi module, NAS QNAP TS-509 Pro, and tested everything on 5+ computers with various operating systems and configurations. I believe that our program has pulled significantly ahead of competitors. Movienizer is an easy to use program to manage media databases, and not just a tool for creating covers...

[WhiteShadow]

Originally Posted by edparker50 Problem is the other programs nnay_07 mentioned are more polished and will improve even more over time and free.

Thank you for trying the program and for your feedback. At this point we believe that our module for Dune is the most polished piece of software among all available ones . This is also the opinion of people from forum.hdtv.ru

Originally Posted by edparker50 1) Looks like background images come from IMDB and not themoviedb.org so not a high quality to my eyes when viewing.

Movienizer supports quite a number of databases, and, of course, you can use your own background images.

Originally Posted by edparker50 2) When looking at the icons if there are a lot of movies the icon selected is enlarged but to me not enough so maybe a little hard to see whats selected (to me Zappati still has the same problem as well)

You can set up the program to add a border to the active icon, so it will be more obvious.

Originally Posted by edparker50 3) Background is red man do i hate red

A blue theme is coming

Thanks again for the feedback!

[a5ian300zx]

can this scan media and create cover art automatically even if the naming convention is like i.e. Avatar [2010 DTS-HD BRRip]-Wiki.ts

also does it add HD audio info when displaying say DTS-HD 7.1 instead of just DTS 5.1



thanks

[WhiteShadow]

Originally Posted by a5ian300zx can this scan media and create cover art automatically even if the naming convention is like i.e. Avatar [2010 DTS-HD BRRip]-Wiki.ts

In Movienizer, you can add the complete folder with your video files. The program will recognize titles and will download information about the movies, including covers, shots etc.

Originally Posted by a5ian300zx also does it add HD audio info when displaying say DTS-HD 7.1 instead of just DTS 5.1

I would suggest to try it . The beta will allow you to test all necessary features and to report if there are problems.

[a5ian300zx]

Hi

Thanks for the reply - I don't actually have folders just lists of movies would this still reconisge the names,


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[Starwarp]

Ok when some Peoples tested your Software,is there a Chance for Rebate to MPC Club Members ?

[WhiteShadow]

Originally Posted by a5ian300zx Thanks for the reply - I don't actually have folders just lists of movies would this still reconisge the names

Well, the program will accept any input . You can simply enter a list of titles and let the program download all the information:

However, in order to play the movies you still need to have video files. So maybe I just need more detailed information about your situation on order to provide more useful piece of advice.