Movies beta

[jam_zhou]

Yeah, I see your point.

The reason I ended up with the build in the settings because:

• I'm adding movies manually to my directories, I'm running the scraper manually, hence one more step to build the xml not an issue for me, I don't turn on the TV, I just VNC to my mediapc
  

• I'm not adding movies too frequently
  

• More importantly, I like to see the result (Movies.log) of the build, and see right away if something goes wrong, if you run it from NPVR using a remote, I assume you don’t want notepad popping up, if you run it in batch you don't want it pop up either. So you won't have any immediate feedback.
  

I like to have full control over the build, but I definitely see the convenience of just set it up and forget it.

Here's what I would do when adding a movie:
1. run xbmc to scrape and import or run thumbgen to scrape
2. transfer movie over the network to the htpc
3. when the wife is done her show or I have a second I just press update

I think on the HTPC box itself touching anything but the 10ft interface takes away from the cool factor.

As for the home movies and such...xbmc has a utility that will create nfo files from the file names which I believe can be done through the 10ft interface.

Finally, for the categories, I prefer the extra screen of categories rather than sifting through views. I think it's much more intuitive and keeps all controls to arrow keys and enter.