moVee 8 desktop application - what do you think?

[deery5000]

Hi all,

Ive developed a little desktop application and i would like some feedback from experienced media center users.

Currently the application only allows you to browse movie metadata but im working on the management of movies in relation of meta data and how this can be utilised with additional applications such as media center

Its a Windows 8 styled application which intergrates with TMDB to fetch its material.

Heres the URL
https://sourceforge.net/projects/movee8/?source=navbar

Im not a industry sodtware developer alothough i have a degree in software engineering
Love working with movies and i hope you enjoy

thanks for looking

 

[deery5000]

Description

moVee 8 is a light weight desktop application which fetches detailed information for your movies from TMDB (The Movie Database)

Most of us have many ripped and downloaded dvds in many different formats, scrolling a folder of movies is boring and doesn't provide any information other than the movie title.

moVee 8 provides a graphical user interface styled towards windows 8. We aim to provide an enjoyable experience for choosing a movie or simply to provide detailed information that you may not already know.

Surfing a movie collection with moVee 8 enhances your experience.

Have a go . . Oh and let us know what you think

Features

• Homepage showing the latest Box Office, Coming Soon and Trending Movies
• Detailed movie information
• Detailed actor information
• Search for a movie
• Play Trailers
• Single click to go to movie homepage
• Browse collection by movie names or movie posters
• Renames movie folders automatically, removing all unwanted words
• Collection displayed in alphabetical order
• Quick jump to letter
• Play Movie

 

[deery5000]

Some images

 

[deery5000]

Forgot an image

 

[deery5000]

Softpedia have just added my software to there site and is available for download.

Check out what they had to say about the application

http://www.softpedia...d/moVee-8.shtml

 

[deery5000]

Hi Guys,
Heres the latest updates to MoVee 8
Let me know what you think

Latest features
** Homepage** (Completed)
Online / Offline mode
Online
Loads existing xml data first (movie details), if its not found it uses the internet
Offline
Only loads existing xml

Weather (Completed)
5 day forcast of the weather, 4 days can be collasped

Background Selector (90%)
Some built in backdrops that work well with the existing design and colours, user can select there own

** Movie Details **
Edit Movie Form (70% Complete)
Loads all the existing data into a new smaller window, allows you to modify everything that is available. Also includes a watched indecator

** New Movie Transfer ** (80% Complete)
Allows the end user to to copy a movie and move it to an external location. Drive details are displayed on the form (Flash drive)

** Edit Movies ** (90% Complete)
Poster Search
Click once and all of the existing posters stored on TMDB for the movie is displayed for selection

Kevin

 

[deery5000]

Heres the latest images of the newest features

Edit movie details (test images added for certification and production company)

poster & backdrop search functionality. Popup window displaying relevant movie posters and backdrops. Its not in the image above, ill update with the latest later

Watched movies marker on posters

Additional features
online/offline mode
if there is no internet connection present or you simply switch to offline then the data is read from .xml

Background selector for the homepage
Choose from a range of provided backgrounds or set your own

Movie Transfer
Copy movies to external for fixed hard drives


The latest version will be uploaded in the next few days

 

[deery5000]

Hi All,

Ive have just release version 1.0.0.1 to sourceforge and softpedia


Download from here:
http://sourceforge.n...rojects/movee8/

and here
http://www.softpedia...d/moVee-8.shtml

Latest features
· Updated UI
· Homepage showing the latest Box Office, Coming Soon and Trending Movies
· Detailed movie information
· Detailed actor information
· Search for a movie
· Play Trailers
· Single click to go to movie homepage
· Browse collection by movie names or movie posters
· Renames movie folders automatically, removing all unwanted words
· Collection displayed in alphabetical order
· Quick jump to letter
· Play Movie
· Ease of use
· Browse large movie collections
· Fetch latest Posters and Backdrops
· Large Poster Viewer
· Todays temperature

 

[deery5000]

Screenshots of the latest

Download @
SourceForge
moVee 8 | Free software downloads at SourceForge.net
Softpedia
moVee 8 Free Download
Would love some feedback

 

[deery5000]

Hi All,
I have many a number of changes to the application with added features, will be available for download at the weekend
Added Features
- Export Movie Posters, Actors by Name, Movie xml files
- Updated Actors page to include more images of the actor
- Large actor image viewer
- Edit Movie
- Watched indicator on colection browser
- Collection browser poster veiw has poster glow and mouse enter border
- Movie Renamer , removes common uploader names, special characters and years
Here are the screens of the application to date. Feedback anyone ?

 

[KoolPal]

Latest version?

Hi,

Just downloaded your app and am exploring the same.

It appears you have still not released the latest version.

Do share when would that be released.

Thanks for the good work.

 

[deery5000]

Hi KoolPal

Thank you for your comment, you are correct in saying the next release is still not available. Im currently doing a masters this year and wont be finished for another 4 weeks. On top of this im a full time developer with 2 kids so time has been limited

I will release the latest version a day or two after my project deadline.

Have you tried the existing application, have you any thoughts on it?

The newest version has tons more features and now uses VLC player to support more formats for playback.

Kevin

 

[deery5000]

moVee 8 2.0 is almost ready , have a look

Hi All,

The masters is over now and im bk coding at the applications (due to demand) , Ive attached some screens shots of the latest application. Will be ready for release in a week or two

1. The posterviewer handles larges collections more efficiently, therefore the images are added to screen a lot quick (avg 12-15 secs for 1000 movies)
2. Posters are all dimmed on load
3. Mouse over brightens the image up and highlights it with a blue rectangle
4. Instant play from poster browser, no need to open the details view
5. Star rating and Year
6. VLC player now added instead of windows media player for additional supported extensions
7. Choose from multiple Trailers when available (ui to be cleaned up)
8. Searching for posters and backdrops now gets a smaller resolution image for speed with the option to download HQ posters
9. On mouse over on the homepage some small details of the movie is displayed

Pls pls folks let me know your thoughts / suggestions

Kevin