MediaBrowser

No pain at all, that is we are all here for, to learn, and to help those that need it. Sorry, I don't think it is possible to do what you are asking MB to do. Demonseed might be able to shed a better light on the matter. As for changing the font, media center studio can do that as well. Check out this link.

Hello lionking,

You can have MB launch an external app to take over playing your videos. But Idon't get the impression that's what your talking about. Seems like your asking if you can have MB launch another app on command, and if so, the answer is no, you can not.

If it is, that your looking to have another app launched to play the videos instead of letting Media Center play them. Then the answer is, yes you can set it up to do that. To set it up you need to open the config tool for MB. Then go tho the external players tab, and set what file type opens in what app.

If you need more help just yell

Lets put it this way.

If you are starting your Media Center HTPC from the ground up, freshy new.
Then building your library to MediaBrowser standers, will just seems like good common since.

If you already have your media library established, and you have use another programs standers for file conventions. Then converting to the Media Browsers way of doing things could be a headache.
Not impossible, but depending on the size of your library, potentially time consuming.

I'm not saying it isn't worth doing by any means, because I truly believe it is.
Just saying be prepared.

But really when you look at any of the other programs out there, you have just as big a learning curve as you have with MB.
But thankfully MB has such a loyal following that people almost never run into a issue that we, the community, cant resolve in no time flat.

So If your wanting to take the plunge, and have been hesitating for fear you wont have the support you need to get it done quickly. Fear no more. If I, or the others here cant help you through something, I can guarantee I can point you to the people that can.

As for the art and things you see all over. That's just us guys with more time then we have since, pushing the modding ability's of MediaBrowser to it's extreme.

It is not in any way required that you spend as much time as we do tweaking every part of your experience in MB.
But if your anything like the other 200,000 people out there, once you start, you wont be able to stop.

MB would want your files like this
D:/videos/Movies/+Horror/Friday The 13th (2009)/fridaythe13th(2009)[Divx_Team_Noir].avi

Anything inside of [ ] will not be looked at by MB
Anything inside of ( ) will be looked at for the Movie Year

The folder.jpg you have will be picked up and viewed in MB as your Movie Poster
MB will also read a mymovies.xml
So if your picky about your metadata you can use a fetcher like meta<browser/> or Yammm to gather and download your metadata to your folders and that will be displayed in MB.

MB will also allow you to download and save multiple backdrops and trailers for each movie and store that in the movie folders as well.

It really has become a grate app for bringing all your media and fanart into one place.

It will also handle Music and allow you to browse with the same eye candy that you receive from every other part of the app.


MB is still being heavily developed and it gits more and more stable with each release.
Right now it is faster then it has ever been. It has lots of guys developing new plugins that are adding more and more features to it all the time.

There are now 7 themes to choose from. 6 of those being plugins

So from the looks from what you have, all you would need to do is go through and put all the non-movie related info into [ ] and you would be ready to go.

MB is very good a figuring out stuff, but if a fetcher is used and you have the metadata stored locally. You have total control over what gets displayed.

Plus if it is stored on the PC if MB's cache ever needs to be cleared, all the metadata will be refreshed 99.9% faster then if it all had to be re-downloaded.

I got an error that I hope Demon or someone else can solve. I am trying to install some new plugins but keep the getting the attached error in the screen shot. I have run MB configuration wizard with "run as Administrator", I have rebooted the machine, still no joy. Anyone else experience this error, and how did you solve it? This only happens if I try to install a plugin theme, it does not happen for the other type of plugins.