Introduction
My Movies for Windows Media Center and Collection Management 4.00 have been made available . This page will give you an introduction to the release in screenshots and screenshot comments.
My Movies 4.00 brings extended TV Series support to My Movies for Windows Media Center and My Movies Collection Management. You have with My Movies 3 always been able to add TV Series on DVD, Blu-ray or HD DVD to your collection, and users of TV series in online single file structures have been able to have their TV series supported to some extend by using the Series/Box set functionality along with the option to add multiple discs to a disc title profile.
With My Movies 4.00, we are extending this functionality to what some will refer to as proper TV series import, monitoring, management and browsing.
Windows Media Center Gallery
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Collection Management Gallery
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In My Movies 3, the menu items in the Media Center start menu were not configurable, and there was only an option for having one strip. To better support the requirement for TV series, My Movies 4 by default contains two strips - one called "Movies" with the movie library functionality, and another called "TV Series" with the tv series library functionality. These sections devide movies and tv series into seperate libraries.
You can in "Collection Management", "Tools", "Options", "Media Center Start Menu" configure how you prefer the start menu (1250 points required), which means you can configure it for either one or two strips, you can name each of the strips to your own preference, and you can choose which items you would like in the start menu.
One thing to notice specifically is that there are three default entry options for the start menu, which is the default used "Movie Library" and "TV Serie Library" and the alternative "Media Library" which combines all your media intro one start menu item. This allows you to configure one strip with only one entrance instead of the default devided two strip functionality.
Adding TV Series to Collection
To help you with adding TV Series to your collection, we have created an instruction video, which you can see by clicking here.
TV Series on DVD Episode Mapping
The support for TV Series on DVD requires a mapping for the DVD title and chapters to the TV Series and it's episodes. The option to contribute this mapping to our servers have only been available during the period where My Movies 4 was in Pre Release.
For the TV Series on DVD functionality to function, we need your help with contributing these mappings for your TV Series DVD's. We have created an instruction video that explains how you can do this - you can see the video by clicking here.
