Movies

Intro

The movie module let you browse (and play, of course) your films collection. Thanks to the full integration with TheMovieDB the module is able to retrieve lots of information about you media, such as metadata, casts, posters and backgrounds.

• Ability to configure the source folders from the UI.
• Fetch films info from themoviedb.org film database, with casts info, posters and backgrounds.
• You can choose your preferred poster/background for a given film from all the image available on the online db.
• Movie info download can occur automatically on background or on-demand by the user.

Usage

The first time you need to tell EpyMC where to look for your movies, use the Manage sources item to add/remove folders, you can add as many sources as you like, every folder will be show on the first page and (as a shortcut) directly in the main menu.

This module will not keep a database of your media, it just have a storage for the metadata. So you can organize your folders as you like and the module will make you browse your structure.

Once you added some folders you can immediately browse and play you movies. To retrieve info for your files you have 2 choices:

• Manually request information for a single movie (using the `Search info' button in the specific movie panel)
• Or you can perform a background scan of all your files (using the Rescan library item).

Naming your files

An important thing to consider is how EpyMC search for your files online: the file name is used as the query to the online db, so you must give decent names to your files. The best name you can give to your file is the name of the movie followed by the year, the year is not mandatory but will help a lot to find the correct movie. Some good examples:

• Alien (1979).avi
• [DivX - ITA] Blade Runner (1982).avi

The file name is processed before used as a search query, by default the following cleanups are done:

1. the file extension is removed
2. some bad words are removed (like dvdrip, AAC, cd1, etc..)
3. everything between [ ] and { } are removed
4. the year is searched at the end of the name between ( )

Note that this is just the default behavior. If you are brave enough you can customize all this in the epymc.conf file tweaking the options: badwords, badwords_regexp and movie_regexp.

Module options

Some options that you can change in the configuration, under Movie collection:

• Preferred language for content: this will be used to retrieve information from the online db in your language
• Enable background scanner: if enabled a full rescan of your library is performed every time you enter the Movie section
• Prefer movie titles in lists: if enabled the movie name (from the online data) is used instead of the name of the file

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