What is your folder structure for MovieWiz?

[hakras]

I currently only use GBPVR to record OTA. I play the files using network media players and Swisscenter. I recently purchased a PCH and would like to be able to use GBPVR as a total software solution. Currently, all of my movies are in individual folders with a folder.jpg file. Will this work with MovieWiz? Also, could someone post some screen shots of the navigation through movies? I looked through the Wiki, but would like to see some more screen shots.

[JavaWiz]

I currently only use GBPVR to record OTA. I play the files using network media players and Swisscenter. I recently purchased a PCH and would like to be able to use GBPVR as a total software solution. Currently, all of my movies are in individual folders with a folder.jpg file. Will this work with MovieWiz? Also, could someone post some screen shots of the navigation through movies? I looked through the Wiki, but would like to see some more screen shots.

MovieWiz does not really rely on any kind of directory structure. All movie entries are stored in a database, so they can reside anywhere.

The config program has a Locate and Load feature that allows you to establish the entries in the db. For example: if all your movies are in subdirectories say under c:\Movies, MovieWiz can be set to scan c:\Movies (and all subdirs) to create a list of movies for loading.

It will attempt to retrieve movie information from either IMDB or TheTvDB internet sites, or if that fails from the EPG within GBPVR.

Thumbnail images can be retrieved from IMDB, TheTvDB, TvGuide and Yahoo (I think, not at my machine at the moment). Also the images may be set to a local image file as well.

[hakras]

Thank you for the quick reply. Could you give me a hint on how to point to the local .jpg for folder art? I will be displaying on a 50" plasma and the thumbs from IMDB are painful to look at.

One other problem. I tried use the MovieWiz plugin from a client PC. I can browse through titles, but I can't watch anything. It says thta the file is not found. I think it's an ID10T error I think I need to specify file location by the full network path (ex. \\servername\movies). When I set it up on the server, I specified the file location by the local path (ex. D:\movies). Am I right?

[JavaWiz]

Thank you for the quick reply. Could you give me a hint on how to point to the local .jpg for folder art? I will be displaying on a 50" plasma and the thumbs from IMDB are painful to look at.

Unfortunately, that would be a 1 time manual step for each movie. Currently, the program only looks in gbpvr/media/art directory for files with the same baseName as the movie being loaded. I suppose I could update the load logic to also look for a Folder.jpg in the same directory as the video file to automate this step (I may add to next version being released soon).



From memory:

• Open the config program (either from gbpvr config, plugins tab or MovieWizManager start-programs-gbpvr-wiztools).
  
• Click on the Manage tab
  
• In the Lookup Image combo box, select manual lookup??
  
• Browse to the appropriate file and select.
  

If you want it to display on the client, on the Settings(1) tab, check the Save images in DB.

One other problem. I tried use the MovieWiz plugin from a client PC. I can browse through titles, but I can't watch anything. It says thta the file is not found. I think it's an ID10T error I think I need to specify file location by the full network path (ex. \\servername\movies). When I set it up on the server, I specified the file location by the local path (ex. D:\movies). Am I right?

To run as a client, make sure you setup the client settings on the Settings(2) tab. You'll want to map the physical server drive location ie: c:\MovieArchive to a UNC mapping ie \\ServerName\Movies, where on the server, c:\MovieArchive has a share created named Movies.

Refer to the Wiki and/or Readme for some more details, if you have specific questions, feel free to post it.

[hakras]

I got everything squared away. I was pointing to the database instead of the movie directory. I guess having the UNC path under the Db checkbox through me off. I got everything working now.

From the client PC, I get a bit of a delay when I choose MovieWiz. Once the GUI appears everything moves nicely. What effects the speed of the GUI appearing? Could I do anything to improve performance?

[JavaWiz]

I got everything squared away. I was pointing to the database instead of the movie directory. I guess having the UNC path under the Db checkbox through me off. I got everything working now.

From the client PC, I get a bit of a delay when I choose MovieWiz. Once the GUI appears everything moves nicely. What effects the speed of the GUI appearing? Could I do anything to improve performance?

Glad you got it working.

The startup delay (especially on the client) is most likely due to the db being read into objects in the plugin. On the client this must occur over the network and until everything is local, there will be the delay. I may try to address this in a future release by spawning a thread on plugin startup to do the load prior to the UI displaying, but at this point other things have higher priority.

[hakras]

Understood. Great plugin. Thank you for all your help.

[hakras]

Unfortunately, that would be a 1 time manual step for each movie. Currently, the program only looks in gbpvr/media/art directory for files with the same baseName as the movie being loaded. I suppose I could update the load logic to also look for a Folder.jpg in the same directory as the video file to automate this step (I may add to next version being released soon).

I would be most grateful if you added this. I have 400+ movies to link art to

[JavaWiz]

I would be most grateful if you added this. I have 400+ movies to link art to

Updated. Download current version, should provide this feature.

[hakras]

That was quick. Thanks a lot. Is there anything I need to do to make the local folder.jpg the default?