Hi All,

I've been using Movienizer for a few months now and agree with a lot of people that it's one of the best movie organizers around. I use Movienizer to keep track of my Movies that I backup on my NAS drive. I tend to add and update movies on my PC but watch movies through my TV connected to a separate computer. I think Movienizer's interface is great when you are at your PC with a mouse but on a TV, with a wireless keyboard and embedded track ball, the interface is cumbersome, well at least to me. So I create a modified query.pas file to use on my TV's computer that provides a simpler interface that is easy to use without having to have great mouse control.

The mods to the query.pas file, focuses on the main center panel and expects the left side panel to be hidden (and also the toolbars). A fullscreen startup option would be great enhancement

From the home page, it provides navigation to movies based on starting letter, genre, and last 8 new additions. The movie listings show larger front-cover images and is organized to show 8 movies across (see pics).

The movie details have larger images and does not popup dialog box to show enlarged images. It provides play and home buttons on the webpage instead of having to go to the toolbar (I could not get the backward and forward buttons to work). Also, I've added the location of the movie on the movie detail page so that it is easy to see where the movie resides.

For TV series, I was able to link my episodes to the movie file (this requires some file naming convention) instead of having to open windows explorer to start each episode.

If you find this might be useful for you, then follow the setup steps below:

1) copy over the new query.pas (English only).
2) create a sub directory in the 'Covers' folder called 'custom' and copy the two icons there.

Thanks for the script ,works well, except the 2 icons don't show.
"create a sub directory in the 'Covers' folder called 'custom' and copy the two icons there."
this is where i tried :
C:\Users\xxxxxxx\AppData\Roaming\Movienizer\Covers\custom\
and:
C:\Program Files\Movienizer\Pictures\Custom\
C:\Program Files\Movienizer\Covers\Custom\
Thanks

Thanks. We included your script into the new version of Movienizer (you can switch between different query.pas scripts there). If you have any objections, please let us know.
We also added the possibility to navigate back and forward, use in the script.

Agree 100% - this would really look good when using the tv-use_program.pas user interface

I know I'm late on this.. but can someone please explain?

I have three complete series on my pc and would like to link the individual episodes to the shows info page (or anywhere).

It looks like this thread is describing what I'd like to do, but I'm not sure if an update has been done to Movienizer since this script was added here (they said the next version would have the script).

Do I need to put all episodes of the three series in individually??

I see on the shows page that all episodes are listed, but can't seem to figure out how to link the episode titles to the actual AVI file for the episode.

I'm a newbie to Movienizer (but have become a HUGE fan already). I've got all my movies in, but don't know if I should add each episode as I do a new movie or what I need to do.

Please help.

Morphine X

Okay.. I've done some searching the forum.. don't know if I'm doing this the easiest way... but have found out based on a compilation of other posts that:

1. Select edit info on the show's page.
2. Click the Seasons tab
3. Click the episode title

Either

4. Add code to the title: <a href="link:file://J:\Television\Alfred Hitchcock Hour\AHH 01x01 A Piece of the Action (1962).avi">A Piece of the Action</a>

Add this before the title <a href="link:file://J:\Television\Alfred Hitchcock Hour\AHH 01x01 A Piece of the Action (1962).avi">
(<a href="link:file://" and then the file location and name) and

after the title: </a>

OR

4. Add the code to the summary: <a href="link:file://J:\Television\Alfred Hitchcock Hour\AHH 01x01 A Piece of the Action (1962).avi">Watch- A Piece of the Action</a>

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And just following the steps for each episode. Seems like a lot of work but adding the title to the database via the IMDB number would result in listing the episodes as seperate movies thus cluttering up the index.

Hoping someone can make this a little easier for me...

Morphine X

Hi Morphine X,

In JeF's user interface script (v15), there's now a tool for serials which can help to set a filename for each episode.
Then, if you want to continue using tv-use script, you'll just have to modify tv-use script to add the line tagged // JeF:



JeF

Thank you so very much.. I do have another question though... What do I do with this code?

Sorry new to MovieNizer and this kind of thing. There are so many posts on this issue but nothing condensed down to one post on what exactly I need to do.

Some of the posts are so old that I don't know which are even relevant anymore.

Thanks in advance...

Morphine X

Man am I feeling dumb.

It depends whether you'll definitely use JeF Interface or want to continue to use tv-use interface. In the first case (JeF) you wouldn't need that code anymore. In the second case, you'll have to use JeF interface (Select in Tools>Options>User Interface) to update infos in database and then come back (Tools>Options>User Interface) to tv-use to use injected infos. If you don't feel like modifying tv-use script, i could give you a modified version according to previous post. So just let me know what is your choice.
JeF

Wow! Okay.. I didn't know I could change the interface like this.. I think I will mess around with the program a little more before I do anything else..

I really appreciate your help.. so much..

Morphine X