Moving Pictures 
- GNU General Public License
1.5.0
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Enhancements
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* Added GUI Importer. Thanks to Edalex for submitting the initial patch. Thanks
to everyone who participated on the forums with testing and skin design. If
your favorite skin does not support the importer yet ask in your skin's
subforum, but please be patient with skin designers. :)
* Added basic MPEI support.
* Improved look of Importer (in config).
* Added option to always display data source info in Importer (in config).
* Config Screen will now remember size and position.
* Added executable config launcher to MediaPortal base directory.
* Added MediaPortal 1.3 DefaultWide skin courtesy of Catavolt.
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Bug Fixes / Updates
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* Fixed bug causing some files to be temporarily skipped when unignoring several
files at once.
* Updated finish translation courtesy of Kui. many thanks!
Moving Pictures is a movie management plug-in that focuses on ease of use and flexibility. Point it to your movies collection and Moving Pictures will automatically load media rich details about your movies as quickly as possible with as little user interaction as possible. Once imported you can browse your collection via an easy to use but highly customizable interface.
Moving Pictures now optionally integrates with follw.it. This website is an opt in service that is all about the social aspects of watching movies. You can follow what your friends are watching, share with people what you have been seeing lately, get recommendation about movies you may enjoy, and more.
In GUI Importer
The big new feature in this release is the in GUI importer. This means that when a movie does not auto approve you no longer have to exit to the config. This feature is accessible from the context menu (F9) and on all skins I have seen so far, on the slide out menu as well. Thank you to Edalex for getting the ball rolling on this.
Because this is a new feature some skins do not yet support the in GUI importer. Please be patient with the designer's of your favorite skins, what they do is difficult! Currently the plugin includes fully implemented Default and DefaultWide support created by Catavolt. If you are using MediaPortal 1.3, the latest version of Titan Extended also supports the new importer.
MPEI Support
With this release we are finally distributing Moving Pictures with an MPEI installer. While the plugin is stable please consider the MPEI installer a beta, it has been subjected to a very limited amount of testing. If you have problems you can fall back to the regular installer. Please let us know how the new installer works for you though.
The current MPEI installer is actually a wrapper for our old installer. This has some limitations and we will be addressing them in a future release. But the in GUI Importer is an exciting new feature that is ready to be shipped, so I decided that we would do this initial release and improve things over time. Again please let us know how the new MPEI installer works for you.
Tweaks
We have made a few additional minor changes, the Finish translation has been updated by Kui. A minor bug with unignoring movies is now corrected. The look of the config importer has been improved a bit as well. By and large though this is an in GUI importer and MPEI release.
About the utility, is easy to use and do what you want, that is arrange all your movies to show you in a list with pictures and details. You can browse by category, year, etc or see all the list at ones. There is a lot of customization, but at the same time is not complicated. To me, i don't even customize much. Is great the way it is.
Something i appreciate is that show all my movies in the same place, even when i don't have all my movies in the same hard drive.
What else i can say? Do the job, and i am happy.
Sometime friends come over to watch a movie, the moment I select Moving Pictures you get the wow factor, suffice to say that everyone has to browse by himself a bit and we end up browsing for titles, actors and fan art of all the old movies each of us likes to remember, and then, and only then we sit back and pick a movie to watch.
Highly recommended for you all.
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