Best plugin / addon for Windows 7 Media Centre to display films ?

Snow-Munki

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Hi,

in the process of building my file server with Windows Home Server and recently rebuilt my HTPC with Windows 7.

Just wondering what you guys use and recommend as an addon to display your movies and tv episodes ?

I am currently using Media Browser which is pretty good....
 
http://www.mymovies.dk/

The best thing I've used - you have to look into it a little bit though, basically it's a database that downloads a lot. If you add to the database and share then you get points which opens more features up.



M.
 
I'm using media browser on my htpc, but have just found out that they will soon be charging for it :(
 
I also found Media Browser pretty good, can you just not upgrade it and then have an older version for free?
 
It was a couple of months back, the creators were talking about maybe charging for it, unless they have changed their tune now.
 
thanks, looked at mymovies a while ago before. Seems tricker to setup and just doesn't look that fancy.

The other option is Media Portal but it is just quite a big install rather than a fairly neat plugin.
 
MyMovies has version 3 coming out which is a lot faster. It depends what you want - if you want a lot of information, a very nice layout, etc. then it's worth a go. I'm not overly familiar with Media Portal but it seems to be an all in one where as My Movies is, obviously, movie based.



M.
 
MyMovies, with ArcMedia Theater 3 which it integrates with for Blu-Ray playback.

I've not tried any of the others, but what I like about MyMovies is you can also add your own films e.g. DVDs you've created or TV programmes with your own DVD-art and it's all in one place.

Slightly unconnected, but I'd recommend you get Power Pack 3 for WHS too...it's currently in beta, but I've not had any problems with it. It adds basic WHS Connector info to the Media Center interface and also allows you to store any recorded TV programmes and series to the WHS Recorded TV share. It also fixes the Windows 7 security nagging about backup when you've set WHS to backup your client machines.
 
I'd go +1 for My Movies

Have it running on my Windows Home Server where all my DVD's are then have all my PC's around the house with the client so I can watch the DVD's from anywhere I want.

Apart from that ou could check out XMBC, I know a few people who like that.

Taff
 
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