The DVD Library Manager for Vista Media Center (VMC) was designed to be a free Windows program which allows you to edit the DVD information (meta data) used by DVD Library in Vista Media Center (VMC).

It can download additional movie information from Amazon.com and IMDB.com. This program is to be run outside of the Vista Media Center but on the same computer as VMC (It can also be run on a different computer if you are familiary with symbolic links).

This program started as a small utility for personal use but I figured that other people may be interested in it. It's a very early version of the program (Version 0.7) and I will continue to update it often. I hope you find it usefull and please don't hesitate to contact me for bugs, comments, new features, etc. I am open to all the suggestions.

You can uninstall the program through Vista's control panel.

After the program starts it will present you with the list of all the movies folders that it finds in the movie folders monitored by VMC. It will show all the data for the movies in the grid format. You can press Escape anytime while the list is loading or click on the status bar at the bottom of your screen.

Double-clicking on a movie will present you with another dialog which allows you to update the DVD information (DVD Details screen). The DVD Details screens also has an option to bring up another dialog, the Amazon search screen. Once you finished your Amazon search you can choose to use that information and display it on the DVD Details screen or just close the Amazon search screen.

You can drag and drop an image file to the DVD Details screen and that file will be used as cover art.

Right-Click on the main screen allows you to edit the raw .XML file in the DVDCache folder. It also allows you to clear all the data, by deleting the DVDID .XML file and the .XML file in the DVDCache folder.

From the Right-Click menu you can also play the DVD in the default DVD player associated with .IFO files (WMP is the default).

Here are some key features of "DVD Library Manager":

· It allows you to graphically modify the movie information (meta data) for the DVDs displayed in the DVD Library, including cover art.
· It can download additional information from Amazon.com (can specify .de, .ca, .fr. and .jp) including cover art.
· It can download additional information from IMDB.com including cover art.
· It allows you to open the raw .XML file containing the meta data to be updated manually.
· You can drag and drop cover art to the DVD Details screen or just select an image file from the hard disk.
· It can modify the DVD information downloaded by VMC
· It will scan all the DVD folders found in the monitored movie folders (DVD Library) of VMC and present all of them in a grid format with the information available (Covert Art, Folder, Movie Title, Director, Actors, etc). This way you can sort on any columns and see what kind of information is missing for a certain movie.
· When creating new DVD information it will automtically create a DVIDID XML file (default name taranu.dvdid.xml) and the corresponding .XML file in the Cache folder.
· It can delete all the DVD information by deleting the corresponding .XML files by right-clicking on a movie.
· It can play the DVD with the default DVD player (that handles .IFO files) by right-clicking on a movie.

Requirements:

· Vista Media Center

Limitations:

· This version does not update the Chapters names.
· If you update DVD information downloaded by VMC (based on the DVDID), all Chapter names will be lost (of course you can always open the raw .XML file, save the chapter information and later merge it with the new updated data).
· Cover art downloaded by VMC of the format "cov150/drt000/t036/t03685uhvgs.jpg" will not be displayed by the program (however it is not getting lost and VMC will show it properly).
· There may be a few user interface inconsistencies
· When updating the information from Amazon, the Genre is not updated

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· changed the Settings to Advanced Options. Changed Advanced Options to Loading Options.
· added a checked menu item to Include Videos (one per folder). By default it is unchecked and video files are not scanned (for speed purposes).
· scans for bluray and hd-dvd folders by default (BDMV and HVDVD-TS).