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    Managing Videos/DVD in windows?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by The_Observer, Apr 12, 2009.

  1. The_Observer

    The_Observer 9262 is the best:)

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    Hello friends;

    Currently I have a TB external HDD with many movies,mostly ripped from DVD's.Some as images and some converted to avi with DVD Decryptor+DVD shrink.I have kept them in a folder with the movie name for most part.But there are simply too many of those to manage now.

    Is there any software which can get the album art from internet and some movie details like WMP does for MP3?

    Thanks
     
    The_Observer, Apr 12, 2009
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    qhn Notebook User

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    Search for "get album art". There are many floating aorund, out there.

    cheers ...
     
    qhn, Apr 12, 2009
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    There's no album art for videos. Those album arts you see are only the first couple frames of the video.

    You can use wmp to manage your videos as well since you're already using it for music. Though, you should convert all of your disk images to something that is supported directly in wmv or you'll have to "mount" the image everything you play the movie and wmp can't keep track of disk images.
     
    jackluo923, Apr 12, 2009
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    Ant Movie Catalog. Lots of info fetching scripts and you could pretty easily write a script to launch a player and play the movie. I'd suggest VLC as a player. Plays ISOs without mounting them.
     
    olyteddy, Apr 12, 2009
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    VLC still needs to mount the iso in order to play videos from disk images. It just seems that way because it's automatic.
     
    jackluo923, Apr 12, 2009
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    Well duh, it still auto plays ISOs.
     
    olyteddy, Apr 12, 2009
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    If there is no album art for videos,is it possible to get the picture from the DVD/IMDB info?All the softwares I come across is too complicated.It cannot scan the name and get info based on it.
     
    The_Observer, Apr 13, 2009
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    Like I said before. Enter the movie name, run the script and bada bing, bada boom....Instant movie database.
    [​IMG]
     
    olyteddy, Apr 13, 2009
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    I downloaded the software.But it doesn't seem to locate the video file and ask the name for it. Ther's no relation between the video and details :(

     
    The_Observer, Apr 15, 2009
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