[plugin] Movie Showtimes (August 4 Update)

[vogelap]

Originally Posted by Gunn

I finally pulled the plug on Beyond Media and have completely switched to Media Portal. I really like it...now, with version 1.0.0 release. I had tried MP a year or so ago and wasn't impressed. Much nicer now. Their equivalent DVD library works very nicely, and looks good. I have an entry on the main screen for "Watch TV" that launches BeyondTV.

Hop on over there to Team Media Portal and take a look.

Would be very interested if you'd write up a guide on transitioning from Beyond Media to Media Portal.

What DVD library tool do you use in Media Portal? How did you get the "Watch TV" entry to appear and launch Beyond TV? Etc...

[scottlindner]

Originally Posted by vogelap

Would be very interested if you'd write up a guide on transitioning from Beyond Media to Media Portal.

What DVD library tool do you use in Media Portal? How did you get the "Watch TV" entry to appear and launch Beyond TV? Etc...

ditto

[Kilrsat]

I'm currently traveling, so I can't do anything right this second but I'll see if I can look at it either this weekend or next.

[ZetaVu]

I had setup Media Portal 1 on my beta system, but now I've switched back to my production system so I have to start from scratch. If I recall, there was a mymovies plugin you could use, or you could use the existing movie database. I setup the movie database and it was very similar to DVD library, however all my movie files are divx, xvid, H.264 or mpeg. Here is the wiki link for the database

http://www.team-mediaportal.com/manu...ovies/Database

According to the extension section you can load ifo's, so if you rip your dvd's to hard drive the database should still recognize them. I haven't done this but someone who has can comment.

http://www.team-mediaportal.com/manu...ies/Extensions

I'm not sure if the MyDVD plugin is current or if the functionality has been imported into the movies database, but this link talks about using that with dvd iso's. Like I said, I don't do that, I convert my dvd's to movie files, and with the MP database that behaves very similar to dvd library (sans chapter points)

http://www.team-mediaportal.com/manu...Plugins/MyDVDS

As far as the other portions of BM, I prefer the MP music library over BM's. Pictures as well, although I liked the PSE plugin (now on Sage). Weather is far better with MP, you can setup multiple locations and add I think 5 animated weather maps per location. Games, email, comics, file browser, etc, all similar, don't use them much.

BM used to have a superior movie showtimes and preview plugin, if I recall correctly last time I tested that in MP it had virtually caught up. The only reason I still had Beyond Media was fo the DVD Library, Movie Showtimes, and PSE photos (intelligent slideshows). Apart from the last Media Portal is good enough to replace all those IMO.

Another nifty feature, you can make a movie playlist, stream movies after each other and navigate. Also MP has some fo the best video quality out there, BTV has closed the distance now, but impressive none the less.

[pdaughe]

Boy, we sure do miss our Movies ShowTimes -- any chance this will be updated to successfully download movie trailers again?

[tmar89]

Originally Posted by pdaughe

Boy, we sure do miss our Movies ShowTimes -- any chance this will be updated to successfully download movie trailers again?

If it's any consolation, I'm working on a upcoming movie trailers plugin. Almost ready. Just working out some tough kinks with the BM SDK and Quicktime playback

[mellenger]

Originally Posted by scottlindner

The most important feature for me, does not work anymore. I forgot the name because I stopped checking, but it's the one where you can see new movies opening this week. I had thought it was related to my living in an area that does not get movies opening week so I changed my ZIP to 90210, but that didn't work.

So now BM is simply DVD Library for me now.

Scott

what about the weather app? its dvd library and weather for me.

[scottlindner]

Originally Posted by mellenger

what about the weather app? its dvd library and weather for me.

I do like to use the weather application as well, but in our area it's almost useless. Thankfully we have two OTA stations that are 24/7 weather broadcasts so it isn't too big of a deal for us. For the quick look I use the BM weather app though.

Scott

[emmanova]

Were is my weather and movies =( I wish I can be a programer, I tried Vista for a while but OMG, it was killing my PC, so I switched back to XP with BM and BTV. But i dont have movies no weather, =(

And I tried Media Portal, but I hate the remote control dont work the same as BTV and BM, and I dont want to install 10 pluggins and twiks, and stuff to make it work.