NEW!
I've uploaded "My Movie Jukebox" to the web so you can take it for a test
drive!!
and see how the menu would look and function on your TV set at home
The Normal way to find, select,
and view
movies on your Popcorn Hour. :(
---- >
Easy to Use & FUN
when you use
My Lil Movie Jukebox!
1. Use The Movie Collector to
enter all of your movies. 2. Run our Movie Jukebox Export Program to export 460
standalone
html pages over to your
Popcorn Hour with 20 Genre pages. 3. Turn on your TV ... then use your remote to GRAPHICALLY
view
and play your movies! 4. As you add more movies - updating is EASY!!!
The Popcorn &
'My Movie Jukebox' rev6 in Action!
Click on the play button below to see a video:
(note: low res video. It'll be 1000 times better on your set)
The NMTs are all very versatile, and you
have many options for storing, viewing and playing your movies. Your movies can
be stored on, .. the internal hard drive, .. an external USB drive, or a network
share such as SMB, NFS or HTTP. A network Share could be a NAS (I have a
QNAP) using NFS, or a networked hard drive on your PC. (SMB).
Plus you also can have the My Lil Movie
Jukebox "menu system" installed on any of the devices listed above., and play
movies on up to 5 locations, ie., the Movie Jukebox does NOT have to be installed
on an internal hard drive of the NMT.
(Note: Having this much flexibility might make your initial journey into the world of
the My Lil Movie Jukebox seem frustrating, .... but hang in there, ... follow
the directions verbatim, .. and you'll be successful!)
What's my setup? My situation is that I
have alot of movies in my collection (over 1000) so I need large storage for
this, plus I don't want to take a chance of loosing any data, .. so I also need
RAID1.... so I purchased a QNAP TS409 Pro (around $400). Then I bought 4 1tb
hard Drives and installed them in the QNAP using Raid1, ... so now I have 2TB of
fail proof storage for my movies, . plus the QNAP runs NFS, .. which makes it
even easier to use with the NMT. I also had a extra old IDE hard drive laying
around, 80GB, so I installed it in my NMT, .. to use for storing HD/BluRay
movies, .. and storing the Movie Jukebox files. (note: an internal HD will
stream HD movies faster than other methods) I don't have many HD movies in
my collection, so putting them on a small HD is just the ticket!!!
The process may seem complicated at first, .. but each step is very easy, and
it's fun too!
so don't fret, ... take your time, and you'll be up an running in a few hours.
Note, ... you also can play your movies on your PC using Movie Collector which
is an added bonus!
Connect your NMT to your home network.
Install the
Movie Collector
software on your PC.
Learn how to use the
Movie
Collector. You'll need to input all of your movies into Movie
Collector before you can "Send Over" the movie cover images
and html menu pages to the NMT. (there's an example movie
database for testing)
Copy your movies onto a hard drive in
your system, (I use DvdFab, then compress the movie to
avi format with AutoGK.)
Install the
My Lil Movie Jukebox
Maker program.
Install a hard drive into your NMT. &
copy over your movie files to the "video" folder on the NMT.
Run the
My Lil Movie Jukebox
Maker program.
Enjoy displaying, viewing and playing
your movies on you NMT.
As you acquire more movies, you'll have
to add them into the Movie Collector then do step 7. again.
Displaying, Viewing, and playing your
movies has never been easier, ... check out the photos below to see how
easy it is!
With revision5, you no longer have to edit any complicated template files.
The Movie Jukebox supports all movie file
formats supported by the Popcorn Hour. My Lil Movie Jukebox will
also work with Popcorn Hour, HDX, eGreat and Istar.
and maybe others!
You DO NOT have to have your PC
running to view and play
your movies on the PCH using My Movie Jukebox! The only time you need your PC is to enter your movies
into Movie Collector, and
then export the html menu files over to the PCH.
Below are some screen shots showing how
the Movie Jukebox (rev5)
looks when viewed with Internet Explorer on your PC...
The Main Menu
Screen
The Main Menu screen - All menus now have titles
shown in Color.
Red is the default color for indicating that this menu is sorted
alphabetically.
The Color Buttons on the Remote Control are now used to determine "how" you
want your movies displayed:
RED BUTTON
Sorted Alphabetically
(default)
GREEN BUTTON
Sorted by Year
(oldest
title first)
YELLOW BUTTON
Sorted by year
(newest title
first)
BLUE BUTTON
Return to COVER PAGE.
(index.htm)
Above: View of main menu screen after pressing the
GREEN
Button on the Remote.
When pages are sorted by year, the release year of the movie is always displayed
below the title.
Also notice that the title has changed color as well.
Above: View of main menu screen after pressing the YELLOW
Button on the Remote.
When pages are sorted by year, the release year of the movie is always displayed
below the title.
AUTOMATIC selection of Genres: this revision will automatically SCAN your
movie database to
determine which genres are present. If a genre is present, the appropriate menu
links will
be generated and displayed. Genres NOT present will not be displayed or
exported.
The Genres that are automatic for this revision are: Action, Adventure,
Animation, Comedy, Crime,
Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Musical, Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction,
Thriller, War,
Western, Oscar List, Blu-Ray, Clint Eastwood, & James Bond.
For advanced users, ... one can change/add/delete
any genres and
make up your own. 20 different genres/filters are supported.
Although all
of my hobby software is free, the time and effort that has gone into this
endeavor has been fairly heavy. I estimate more than a thousand hours have gone
into development, answering emails, webpage maintenance and finding servers
willing to host it all!
So, I am now asking for donations from anyone who is willing to help. I am not
going to ask for a specific amount as I appreciate that people have differing
financial resources, just whatever you feel that you value the software. If you
do Donate I guarantee to personally answer via email any questions that you
have.
I want to be clear - the software is FREE and if you feel you should not (or
cannot) donate or have any reason why you would rather not donate - that's
perfectly fine. However, a $? general donation will go a long way to helping
keep my software available for as long as possible. So go ahead and download my
software - use it all you like. If you feel you got $? worth of use out of any
of it and wish to contribute please press the Donate button.
Comments? by all means email me at aks@iglou.com
. Should you have questions about setting up your Popcorn Hour, please visit the
USER APPS section
of
http://www.networkedmediatank.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=34
and ask your questions there. I do this part-time, ... so I'm not able to answer
tech questions via email, but I will respond
and answer any/all questions about the Movie Jukebox on the NMT forums. If
you DONATE, ...then I'm more than happy to answer questions via email, and I'll
provide my phone number for tech support a well.
"I hope this program will give you and your family
many, many hours of viewing enjoyment!"
sincerely;
Allen Shope
Change Log:
010209:
Fixed bug with QUICK EXPORT, and also fixed bug with detail files
not showing video format, plus expanded video format. 2 files:
Export_123108.exe and Detail.xsl
Movie_Jukebox_UPDATE_010209.zip
010409: Added another
option to help speed up the export process. When you run the Export,
you'll see a USE TEMP?
combo box, and a TEMPORARY DRIVE LOCATION box. Say YES to Use
Temp, ... then browse to a folder on your PC.
Use EXPORT DRIVE LOCATION for the "final" destination on your PCH.
The export will output to the temp location first,
which will be much faster because it's a hard drive on your PC, ...
then the program will XCOPY (changed files)
over to the PCH. Also fixed a bug with SD mode.
Movie_Jukebox_UPDATE_010409.zip
Make a $25
Donation and I'll send you the download link for all of my
background
Fanart images!!!!! (48Mbytes - 750 images, see the
testdrive to check them out.)
To add your own Directors and Actors, .... make new genres called
Actors, and Directors.
Change the 100 ALL Movie Filter to this:
Genre NOT EQUALS Boxset
Genre NOT EQUALS Directors
Genre NOT EQUALS Actors
Then, star adding a director or actor, ... let's add David
Cronenberg, ... Click on Add Movie Manually in Movie Collector, ...
for the name type in "Cronenberg", ... Click DIRECTOR in the genre
area, .. then under the Cover section, add the jpg for D
Cronenberg. Under the personal tab, in User Text 1, type in
Cronenberg.
If this is the first Director you're doing, when you do the export,
under the Director tab, ... in field 400, for html, type in "Cronenberg"
and for the title, type in David Cronenberg Collection.
Repeat for all the Directors you want, ditto for your favorite
Actors.
Also when you do the Export, .. you'll see "UPDATE ONLY?" boxes
under Filters, Actors, TV Series, Boxsets, Directors, and Stars. For
your first export, set these to NO, .. then, when you're adding only
a movie or two, ... set these to YES (for a faster Export). The
program will then ONLY export those genres whose "number of movies"
have changed since the last export!
02/26/09 - Update for IMDB Search for
importing from DVD Empire (ie they changed the format)
only 2 files, so I just added them to the current update zip.
http://www.treasure-cove.net/Movie_Jukebox_UPDATE_021309.zip
you must re-run the Setup program to update the imdb/dvdempire
scripts.
Or, ... just download the following
and extract to:
WinXp: Documents and Settings\UserName\Local
Settings\Application Data\Collectorz.com\Movie Collector\Scripts
Vista: Desktop\UserName\AppData\Local\Collectorz.com\Movie
Collector\Scripts
