When I try to download the source, I get the following message:

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Not Found

The requested URL /svn/trunk/ open-media-library-read-only was not found on this server.

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I don't suppose that's normal...... 

other than that, it looks fantastic. From the screenshots, it looks significantly better than my movies. I wonder what animations it will have...

hehe299792458:

When I try to download the source, I get the following message:

"

Not Found

The requested URL /svn/trunk/ open-media-library-read-only was not found on this server.

"

I don't suppose that's normal...... 

other than that, it looks fantastic. From the screenshots, it looks significantly better than my movies. I wonder what animations it will have...

With my limited knowledge of SVN I would say the path should just be: http://open-media-library.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/

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OML - Open Media Library - Product Manager

Definitly looks better ;-)

The only thing MyMovies has going on (for the moment) is a good backend interface/database, although it's much to "hands-off"...

"it's my way or the highway", so go open source ! still loving your OML project guys!

The developer of My Movies, Brian, is/was one of the most important developers in media center history. Nearly all video libraries either use or import data from My Movies. My deepest respect to him, really. A lot of people use My Movies and probably will continue using it (at least untill they see OML :D). All respect to My Movies, but it's time for a new king.

A lot of people have signed up on our forum just to find out that there isn't much info there....yet. This is because in this initial phase we spend the most time in the private forum, discussing how to please you guys the most. After the initial launch, we will let you enter, probably on a read-only basis to start with, so you can follow the development even closer. Untill then, you can always have a look at the change list over at Google code.

You have all waited a looooooooong time, but trust me, we work as hard as we can and now with over 10 developers (some more active than others) we should be able to get something out the door "soon".

Thanks for all your support guys. Sign up at the forum and keep watching www.openmedialibrary.org, one day we just open for business!

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OML - Open Media Library - Product Manager

Can you tell us a bit about the database structute of the program and how we best prepare for it's release?

Will the database be SQL based and will there be database handling in the software, or will it be based on import from other programs alone?

dvdmonster:

Can you tell us a bit about the database structute of the program and how we best prepare for it's release?

Will the database be SQL based and will there be database handling in the software, or will it be based on import from other programs alone?

Sure can! For the initial release, we have chosen to use a simple dat file as "database". This means that you have a oml.dat file in your program files and that's it, no extra install or anything. We haven't fully decided if this is the way it will always be, but as long as we have OK performance with this little overhead, we'll stay with the file driven database.

Database handling you say, well, OML will be shipped with a DatabaseEditor where you can add/edit/delete titles. Right now you can manually add titles, but before the initial release, we should have the importers working inside the editor. For the initial release, you can't enter a title and press "GO" and everything will be done for you. We have no illegal IMDB/Amazon scraper getting copyrighted information for you, right now you do that by hand _or_ you use one of the importers.

Current supported importers are My Movies, Movie Collectorz, native VMC xml and some others, can't recall right now actually. This means that if you don't want to enter all new info by hand, you can fire up eg. Movie Collectorz, find the movie you want, export, import to OML and away you go....

But remeber, these are importers, you still use the oml.dat, so if you later on want to change anything on the title, you can simply do it in the OML editor.

On the question on how to prepare, well then that depends on if you already use a movie library today or you are starting out fresh. If you are using a movie library, then you could hope that we support it in our import rutine (if not, then write us and I am sure we'll figure something out). If you are starting out fresh, then it's just a long wait ;) If you have eg. 700 movies and wan't to put them all into OML, then I would probably wait for some solution within OML, so you won't have to manually enter data for 700 titles.

Hope I answered all your questions, if not then you are always free to ask.

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OML - Open Media Library - Product Manager

First let me apologize if I missed this while reading the thread. How is OML going to handle other types of media beyond DVDs? Currently many of us use tvscrapper to pull from thetvdv.com. Will it be able to utilize the xml files for television shows that are within the folder and not a central location like titles.xml (mymovies)?

statious:

First let me apologize if I missed this while reading the thread. How is OML going to handle other types of media beyond DVDs? Currently many of us use tvscrapper to pull from thetvdv.com. Will it be able to utilize the xml files for television shows that are within the folder and not a central location like titles.xml (mymovies)?

We are currently looking into two solutions for this. Either they will co-exist or just one of them will "win":

1 - If a moviename.oml.xml is present, then that metadata will be use for the movie. The same with folder.jpg, if it's present it will have the highest priority. As of now you will still have to make and entry for each title in the dbeditor though.

2 - A filewatcher service will be running and if any new movies are present in the watched paths, a title will be made in the dbeditor and if there is a moviename.oml.xml present it will be imported.

Right now the format of moviename.oml.xml isn't define, so you can't write a parser for it yet, but you'll probably need some "translater" between the output from the tv scraper and the oml.xml. Not sure though, as we are not finished with the design yet.

Answered your question?

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OML - Open Media Library - Product Manager

I think that takes care of my question. As is I have the following xml files.

series.xml for the top level folder (Ni Hao, Kai-lan)

Within the top level folder are individual season folders, which contain a hidden metadata folder. In this metadata folder is the individual episode.xml files and screengrabs for each episode.

Glad to see the team taking a look into this. I have to say this is one ambitious but needed solution. Even my wife is eager to see a more user friendly product.

You all need to borrow the Kix slogan, "Kid tested and Mother approved". As is my 5 year old can browse their cartoons with samsbrowser and think this is going to be just as easy for him to navigate.

statious could you try to sketch out that folder structure for me?

Out of curiosity, what are you see will benefit you the most in OML compared to Sam's Video Browser?

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OML - Open Media Library - Product Manager

KingManon:

On the question on how to prepare, well then that depends on if you already use a movie library today or you are starting out fresh. If you are using a movie library, then you could hope that we support it in our import rutine (if not, then write us and I am sure we'll figure something out). If you are starting out fresh, then it's just a long wait ;) If you have eg. 700 movies and wan't to put them all into OML, then I would probably wait for some solution within OML, so you won't have to manually enter data for 700 titles.

Ok, i have a lot of complete HDDVD/Blurays ripped to my harddrive and i havent indexed them in any software yet.
I was thinking about using DVDProfiler (i read somewhere that OML will support DVDProfiler), but since no path to the files are added to the movie information in DVDProfiler like it is in MyMovies, would I be able to do that in the OML manager on import?
As you can see I'm trying to prepare for the release of OML, and I can just as well go down the right path to begin with.

Thanks in advance.

doubble post.

This is actually something we have yet to deal with completely.  In the gui editor app you will be able to set this but on the initial import no, since dvdprofiler doesn't know where the media is we aren't able to extract that info from its export file(s).  If you have some idea on how to do this that makes sense we're open to it.

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OpenMediaLibrary - Senior Programmer

I love the development work that I've seen so far - it's a credit to you and I can't wait to see the finished product.

That said - I came across this today: http://aeoncentral.com/

The site is for a n Xbox Media Center mod, but the user interface is absolutely beautiful, elegant, and seems very intiutive. It's also customizable. I know you guys have a particular design already in place, but you might take a look at this for future UI enhancement.

Looking forward to the release of the plugin!

Vernon

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Vernon L. Vincent

translucent:

This is actually something we have yet to deal with completely.  In the gui editor app you will be able to set this but on the initial import no, since dvdprofiler doesn't know where the media is we aren't able to extract that info from its export file(s).  If you have some idea on how to do this that makes sense we're open to it.

Are you 100% sure that there isn't a file location dialog in DVD Profiler? Cause I think there is!

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OML - Open Media Library - Product Manager