MediaBrowser has long been a favorite for anyone looking to replace the built-in movie library browser with something that has a few more features. MediaBrowser is a free plugin for Windows 7 Media Center that adds more advanced library management, multiple view options for browsing the library and plenty of sorting options. It doesn’t take long with this plugin [...]
By default the new Netflix application remembers a users login information for use each time you enter the movie browser. However, what if you should change your username or password via the Netflix website? Unfortunately at this point instead of allowing you to re-enter your information the Netflix app simply returns a login error and sends you back to [...]
With the release of My Movies 3 one of the most popular movie library plugins for Media Center makes it’s way into Windows 7. The plugin has received a complete makeover to the user interface as well as updated code to work with the new structure of the Windows 7 Media Center platform. How does this update to an [...]
The latest version of Open Media Library is now available for download from openmedialibrary.org and it includes a number of bug fixes and some minor additions. The additions are mostly in the back-end and database manager, however, the bug fixes are certainly worth the update. Much of the work in this patch focuses on the database editor provided to [...]
Open Media Library is quickly becoming a favorite replacement for the default Windows 7 Media Center movie library. Though the community isn’t quite as large as Media Browser’s the project is quickly attracting open source developers and development seems to really be picking up speed. This new release includes one major improvement over previous version in the new database [...]
One of the advantages that most third-party movie library plugins have over the built-in Windows 7 Media Center Movie Library are their ability to mount ISO files as normal disks. The process requires additional mounting software to be installed and running in the background but has the advantage of being able to provide a full DVD experience without the [...]
Movie Collector from Collectorz.com can be a handy tool for organizing a large real world DVD collection. If you’re currently a Movie Collector users you may have noticed a new feature included in the latest versions, a Media Center plugin. This MCE Zone product has been available for some time now but has recently become an official part of [...]
If you’ve ever recorded movies from live TV in Windows 7 Media Center you may have noticed that by default these movies are also included in your Media Center Movie Library. For some this may be a perfect fit but others likely won’t want commercial laden and edited for TV movies filling up their Movie Library listings. Ian Dixon [...]
Starkcovers are a beautiful addition to Media Browser’s coverflow and poster views but what if you’re a user of the default movie library in Windows 7 Media Center? Well, by default the native movie library will only load folder.jpg covers and Starkcovers creates .png files. So what we’ll need to do is convert those .png files and also clear [...]
With Media Browser moving to a paid model you may be looking for alternatives for your movie collection viewing. Fortunately for you there are a few good alternatives on the rise in the open-source community that can fill your need for something a little above and beyond the native movie library. Some, such as Open Media Library, even provide [...]
Getting an extender to work properly with your Windows 7 Media Center has become slightly easier over the course of the beta but can still prove to be troublesome for many. Though by default Windows 7 now has the ability to transcode many of the formats which once required third party software it’s still far from flawless.
The preferred method [...]
With the final release of Windows 7 coming ever closer we are stating to see a number of very nice tools being released gear toward the new platform. For Media Center users some of the most useful programs being developed are in the area of codec support. With Windows Media Foundation and the new pipeline used in Media Center [...]
Media Browser is easily one of the most popular video and movie collection managers for Windows 7 Media Center users, with good reason. The interface it provides is stunning and the number of extra “little” features available amount to a heap of Media Center loving. Out of the box, Media Browser is great but that doesn’t mean that we [...]
We’ve seen a veritable deluge of metadata tools over the last few months. Almost all of them have their redeeming features and minor drawbacks. The best one are absolutely the programs that are both quick and easy as well as accurate, like the recently reviewed My Movie Finder. Today, however, we take a look at another solution that put’s [...]
Want to use the guide to Replacing the Default Movie Menu Strip with Media Browser on your extender? Thanks to one of our readers, Amolenk, we now have a tip to remove the default Movie Strip on your Media Center Extender! After following the instructions below continue on to the original guide to complete the process.
Run Regedit and select [...]
With the recent flurry of metadata retrieval tools available is there really a place for yet another one? With the introduction of My Movie Finder for 7MC you may find yourself asking if there’s room for those who came before. Not only does this tool slim down metadata retrieval to it’s simplest form but it often gets more accurate [...]
So you forgot to include subtitles while ripping your movie collection, what do you do now? Luckily, the solution isn’t to go back through the entire process and do it over again. You will need to break those DVDs back out of storage, however. Today we’ll use a program called SubRip to analyze the subtitles of each movie and [...]
