I just wanted to show the world the best Media Center Plugin I have found!


This is MediaBrowser
AND IT'S FREE .................

It can do it all and much, much more!
Sort out Giant Library's over multiple HDD's or even PC's
Find cover and backdrop's with no help.
It has the best UI I've ever seen.
I'm going to shut up and let the pictures talk for me! Check it out!
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MediaBrowser is a community driven program and so is this thread.
I am always on the lookout for the little things, that most no one knows, to help other people out, so if you know something that may help others.!
please tell me so I can add it in. And of coarse give you all the credit!

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You can still talk to me here. I am email linked to the thread.

I have put together a Video Of My Vanilla Theme. Click To View my Video on YouTube

Yeah, there are numerous thread on this. It is really great.

I prefer myTV http://mytv.senseitweb.com/

Not quite as fancy looking, but for me thats a good thing.

kendrome:

I prefer myTV http://mytv.senseitweb.com/

Not quite as fancy looking, but for me thats a good thing.

Yea its nice...
But mine is FREE
And free is always better to me!

I've up loaded my imagesbyname folder to my DropBox.     
 
Place it in your,
C:/ProgramData/MediaBrowser/imagesbyname
This File contains 4,031 Actor Pictures in all.

  4,031 imagesbyname

Hope this helps out.
Enjoy
Demonseed

Silly question, but how do you enable/see those full screen backdrops when you cycle through in cover flow mode? I only see the backdrops on the info page when I select the item .

edit: ah, I see - need to be in Vanilla mode

So please Enjoy,
DemonSeed ;)

edit

I have just finished giving my covers a new look what do y'all think?

NEW LOOK



OLD LOOK



I found a tutorial on how to do this (auto Batch file)on the Media Browser forum here
http://www.mediabrowser.tv/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1701#p11310 if any one would like to do theirs as well.

I have found a way to add a Trailer Feature to Media Browser.



Here is How:
First Go and download HD Movie Trailer Downloader
It can scan your library and add trailers to all of the movies it finds matches to automatically.

Now go in to all the movie folders that have a trailer in them and edit your mymovies.xml  

Your going to want to scroll down to the bottom of the xml
and and remove </Title>
</Person>
  </Persons>
  <Studios />
  <Covers>
    <Front>folder.jpg</Front>
    <Back />
  </Covers>
</Title>

And Then Add

<LocalTrailer>
  <URL>J:\Wanted\trailer.mov</URL>
  <Type>1</Type>
  </LocalTrailer>
</Title>
Then SAVE

So it will look like this
</Persons>
  <Studios />
  <Covers>
    <Front>folder.jpg</Front>
    <Back />
  </Covers>
  <LocalTrailer>
  <URL>J:\Wanted\trailer.mov</URL>
  <Type>1</Type>
  </LocalTrailer>
</Title>
And then run Media Browser and you will find a new button!

But the best part is when you play the trailer it plays in the preview window only!
At least in the Vanilla Theme.


Petty Cool Right?!!

OK here is were I would love some help from someone out there that can right a script.
A script that can find the newly added trailers and add the info to the xml automatically.

ANYONE UP TO THE TASK?

(UPDATE)
pureMG has put together a small program to do the xml editing for us!

pureMG:

Hey guys.
I wrote a little Program in C# which takes care of the xml editing needed to implement trailers.
Basically it checks every sub-folder of a given path for mymovies.xml and inserts the Trailer Tags.
The Program will only edit your XML file if a trailer.mov is found. Obviously all trailers need to be called trailer.mov and be placed inside the Movie folder.

You can start the Program directly from inside your collection directly or you can supply a working path when you execute it.

Here's the link:


BTW:
It worked perfect for me but I hacked this together in like 10mins and it's just supposed to be a temporary solution until this gets properly implemented in MediaBrowser.

Later All,
DemonSeed

I use MB but I have a few movies that do not show cover or backgrounds or are missing synopsis. MB has up to now gathered its own information, so I have not had to get any metadata myself. Where would I put the pictures or metadata to enable MB to fill in the gaps?

karlos65:

I use MB but I have a few movies that do not show cover or backgrounds or are missing synopsis. MB has up to now gathered its own information, so I have not had to get any metadata myself. Where would I put the pictures or metadata to enable MB to fill in the gaps?

You will need to have all your movies in there own folder. If you don't already here is a BatchFile you can place in your movie folder and run. It will put every movie it a folder named after the movie.
I use This Tool to add all of the metadata and backdrops and covers to all of my movies. It will save everything it can find to each movie folder automatically.
It will work for Movies or TV Shows. After you have a mymovies.xml in all of your folders you can edit them to your harts delight. And create any info or picture you want to see for each movie.

Hope this helps you out.

Later,
DemonSeed

ok i am a total newb on this media browser and i really like how it looks. can somebody give me a link or tell me the best fourm link or what ever to help get me started the correct way with this so i can have it be doign all this stuff like u guys have...

nadforever:

ok i am a total newb on this media browser and i really like how it looks. can somebody give me a link or tell me the best fourm link or what ever to help get me started the correct way with this so i can have it be doign all this stuff like u guys have...

If you spend a little time and read all the posts in this thread you'll find all of your questions are already answered.

If you do find something that you realy need help with I'll be happy to help.
There are links all over this thread to Build the Best Media Browser setup out there.
So take your time and read everything.

DemonSeed

(UPDATE)
pureMG has put together a small program to do the xml editing for us!

pureMG:

Hey guys.
I wrote a little Program in C# which takes care of the xml editing needed to implement trailers.
Basically it checks every sub-folder of a given path for mymovies.xml and inserts the Trailer Tags.
The Program will only edit your XML file if a trailer.mov is found. Obviously all trailers need to be called trailer.mov and be placed inside the Movie folder.

You can start the Program directly from inside your collection directly or you can supply a working path when you execute it.

Here's the link:


BTW:
It worked perfect for me but I hacked this together in like 10mins and it's just supposed to be a temporary solution until this gets properly implemented in MediaBrowser.