Soldato
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Ok, so I got my nice cheap genuine Microsoft remote control and I've installed MP on my main PC to try it out before I order my specced-up HTPC.
I'm using the StreamedMP skin and TVSeries plugin. I quite like the way the film and picture browsing works (not tried TV cause I don't have my TV tuner yet), but there are a few niggles that are preventing me from really wanting to use it as my main media centre:
1. Music browsing is awful. It seems to just reproduce the folder structure in my music folder, or if I set it to sort by artist I just get a list of letters of the alphabet and can only browse artists beginning with a specific letter at any one time.
Also the artist/album art doesn't get picked up in the "shares" sort (when it reproduces my folder structure).
I want to have it just browse by tag nested by artist then album then tracks - just like my Creative Zen or PocketPlayer does. And I want it to pick up the artist art properly.
Any solutions?
2. I've copied my home movies from my DVD camera into a My Videos folder to use in the Videos section of MP. They're Video_TS DVD files, but MP doesn't seem to like that. It tries (and fails) to find IMDB information for them and then won't display them even though I've set the My Videos folder as the share for this section of MP.
I really want to get to a point I can just copy directly from the camera to the folder and have my home movies ready to play. Any possibility?
3. Lots of missing artwork for lots of my films (using the moving pictures plugin to browse them). IMDB doesn't have cover art for lots of my Asian films. I have them in Collectorz Movie Collector, though. Any way to get them to display in the moving picture plugin?
If these problems aren't easily surmountable, would I be able to do these things in VMC with Media Browser? (If so I may just install that on my HTPC and forget MP for now).
Ta.
I'm using the StreamedMP skin and TVSeries plugin. I quite like the way the film and picture browsing works (not tried TV cause I don't have my TV tuner yet), but there are a few niggles that are preventing me from really wanting to use it as my main media centre:
1. Music browsing is awful. It seems to just reproduce the folder structure in my music folder, or if I set it to sort by artist I just get a list of letters of the alphabet and can only browse artists beginning with a specific letter at any one time.
Also the artist/album art doesn't get picked up in the "shares" sort (when it reproduces my folder structure).
I want to have it just browse by tag nested by artist then album then tracks - just like my Creative Zen or PocketPlayer does. And I want it to pick up the artist art properly.
Any solutions?
2. I've copied my home movies from my DVD camera into a My Videos folder to use in the Videos section of MP. They're Video_TS DVD files, but MP doesn't seem to like that. It tries (and fails) to find IMDB information for them and then won't display them even though I've set the My Videos folder as the share for this section of MP.
I really want to get to a point I can just copy directly from the camera to the folder and have my home movies ready to play. Any possibility?
3. Lots of missing artwork for lots of my films (using the moving pictures plugin to browse them). IMDB doesn't have cover art for lots of my Asian films. I have them in Collectorz Movie Collector, though. Any way to get them to display in the moving picture plugin?
If these problems aren't easily surmountable, would I be able to do these things in VMC with Media Browser? (If so I may just install that on my HTPC and forget MP for now).
Ta.