MyMovies

J. River Media Center 14 added the ability to read metadata from www.mymovies.dk -- these are user instructions, thanks to several people in this thread.

There is a parameter in the My Movies Collection Management program under Configure > Options > Meta Data Storage to store media info in MyMovies.XML files. Switch it on and thereafter they are created automatically.

There is also a setting to create the XML files for all existing database entries. If the xml files are not automatically created for whatever reason, you can generate them for all My Movies titles by going to the "Configure" menu and choosing "Options -> Meta Data Storage -> Update". Alternatively, you can update individual titles by choosing the "Save Title" button at the bottom of the main screen after selecting a movie from the list on the left.

For DVDs, always rip to a VIDEO_TS subdirectory, within a folder for the disk, i.e. \The Matrix Disk 1\VIDEO_TS

In My Movies:

• Open Collection Management
• Click the "Add Titles" button on the toolbar or choose this option from the "Title" menu
• In the Add Titles dialog, enter the movie name or DVD bar code and hit the "Search" button
• In the search results list, select your movie title and hit the "Add Online" button
• Browse to the folder where your movie resides and hit "Ok" to add your title to the queue of titles on the right.

• IMPORTANT: For DVD rips, tell MyMovies that the rip is in the VIDEO_TS subfolder, not the title folder.
• For avi and other media files, tell My Movies that the title is stored as an Online file (i.e. not a folder) and point to the exact file.

• When you're done adding titles, click the "Add to..." button
• My Movies will start downloading meta data for each movie you've added to the queue.

At the end of this process, your movie titles will have been added to the My Movies database. This process should have also automatically generated a hidden mymovies.xml file containing all the relevant movie meta data. These xml files reside in the same folder(s) you chose in step 5 above for each title.

Whenever you import a video with MC that has an accompanying mymovies.xml file, MC will automatically populate all the relevant fields including actors, credits, description etc. If the file was imported previously, you can use the "Update Library (from tags)" feature to re-read the xml at any time.

Once you make a change to the tags inside MC and you have video sidecar support enabled, MC will generate a "<video filename>_ext_JRSideCar.xml" file in MPL format. This will be used by MC, rather than the original mymovies.xml file, for ongoing updates to tags.