The third party clone of Niveus Media’s Movie Library has now gone open source.  Currently know as Open Media Library, the project is up on Google Code now.

The one major change that I’d like to see is for Open Media Library to take more of its own path, rather than trying to be a 1:1 copy of Niveus’ plug-in.  While the cover display is hardly a new idea, it would be nice to see what other display techniques people can come up with.  Even at its early stages, I think this plug-in has great potential and being open sources I hope others contribute to the project.

The plug-in does use collection database software from Collectorz.com to generate XML files for each movie, this is the same approach being used by a few other plug-ins as well.

Not to be outdone, My Movies will be getting a lightweight MCML release soon.  “I can assure you that it will not be three months before you are able to use My Movies in MCML”