A long list of ideas

[thefrayedend]

I dont want to come off sounding like I dont like this software, because I use it, but there simply is no media server software (atleast that I have used) that meets my requirements. When you first go into Wild Media Service you get four choices (movies, music, photo, and service). In comparison to my other requests this one is insignificant, but I have a lot more video files than just movies. I think the movies option should be changed to video. If not video, then there should be a seperate library for tv shows like there is for movies, music, and photos.

Before I switched my primary settop box to a wdtv, I was using a old xbox and xbmc. After using xbmc for many years nothing really compairs, and for a while I used xbmc as my upnp media server. If xbmc would allow you to view media not in the library I would still use it, it has great scrapers. Im not saying you should build scrapers for your software, though it would be nice, all I am asking for is better thumbnail support. I just dont have the patience to individually select every single thumbnail when I have an 8TB media server, but in every movie folder I have the cover and it is called "folder.jpg". Maybe you could make it so when it scans the folders if it finds a certian file name in the folder it would use it as the thumbnail. It would also be nice if the folders inside "watch folders" could have its own thumbnail. I use a program called Tvix to grab these thumbnails, this program also grabs movie information, actor information, etc and places it into its own photo. I believe these files are called movie sheets, each one of my movies has one of these movie sheets in its folder called "movie information.jpg". It would also be nice if Wild Media Server were to find one of these files in its folder it would display it as an option along side the movie.

This suggestion also comes from xbmc, and I have two ways to possibly solve it. As I already mentioned I have a very large media server, and both my movies and tv shows are spread out over sevral different hard drives. I want to be able to press tv shows and just see all my tv shows, not figure out which drive what program is on. In xbmc you could link multiple folders to just one choice. It is kind of similar to your collection menu, but the collections menu does not update as watch folders do. So what I propose is to either have the collections folder update when it does a normal scan or to be able to create a virtual folder within watch folders that have multiple paths. I prefer the second option.

My last request is both my least favorite and most favorite feature of your product. Transcoding needs to work more like TVersity. If the media file is not encoded in a format the player can play or it does not meet the users profile then it should automatically transcode it from the normal menu. The wdtv live will play 99% of files I throw at it, the reason I use the transcoding option most of the time is to strech older tv shows that are non-widescreen to widescreen. Disregarding the fact that you have to constantly switch in and out of the transcoding menus, the transcoding menus are very chaotic.

[Eugene]

I dont want to come off sounding like I dont like this software, because I use it, but there simply is no media server software (atleast that I have used) that meets my requirements. When you first go into Wild Media Service you get four choices (movies, music, photo, and service). In comparison to my other requests this one is insignificant, but I have a lot more video files than just movies. I think the movies option should be changed to video. If not video, then there should be a seperate library for tv shows like there is for movies, music, and photos.

Version 0.72.5 adds the ability to edit the parameters of the root folders of media structures. On the right-button "mouse" - "Structure of media resources" - on the right mouse button - "Edit title".

Before I switched my primary settop box to a wdtv, I was using a old xbox and xbmc. After using xbmc for many years nothing really compairs, and for a while I used xbmc as my upnp media server. If xbmc would allow you to view media not in the library I would still use it, it has great scrapers. Im not saying you should build scrapers for your software, though it would be nice, all I am asking for is better thumbnail support. I just dont have the patience to individually select every single thumbnail when I have an 8TB media server, but in every movie folder I have the cover and it is called "folder.jpg".
Maybe you could make it so when it scans the folders if it finds a certian file name in the folder it would use it as the thumbnail.

Version 0.72.4

It would also be nice if the folders inside "watch folders" could have its own thumbnail. I use a program called Tvix to grab these thumbnails, this program also grabs movie information, actor information, etc and places it into its own photo. I believe these files are called movie sheets, each one of my movies has one of these movie sheets in its folder called "movie information.jpg". It would also be nice if Wild Media Server were to find one of these files in its folder it would display it as an option along side the movie.

The file ("movie information.jpg") is not showing through Watch Folders?

This suggestion also comes from xbmc, and I have two ways to possibly solve it. As I already mentioned I have a very large media server, and both my movies and tv shows are spread out over sevral different hard drives. I want to be able to press tv shows and just see all my tv shows, not figure out which drive what program is on. In xbmc you could link multiple folders to just one choice. It is kind of similar to your collection menu, but the collections menu does not update as watch folders do. So what I propose is to either have the collections folder update when it does a normal scan or to be able to create a virtual folder within watch folders that have multiple paths. I prefer the second option.

In version 0.72.5 added possibility to choose the type of folder - Dynamic (script). Example
http://www.wildmediaserver.com/forum/vi ... p=885#p885. In the next version will be more convenient function WmsDatabaseLinkFolder.

My last request is both my least favorite and most favorite feature of your product. Transcoding needs to work more like TVersity. If the media file is not encoded in a format the player can play or it does not meet the users profile then it should automatically transcode it from the normal menu. The wdtv live will play 99% of files I throw at it, the reason I use the transcoding option most of the time is to strech older tv shows that are non-widescreen to widescreen. Disregarding the fact that you have to constantly switch in and out of the transcoding menus, the transcoding menus are very chaotic.

That I misunderstood. List of supported files - Settings-Device-Embedded file support

[thefrayedend]

Version 0.72.5 adds the ability to edit the parameters of the root folders of media structures. On the right-button "mouse" - "Structure of media resources" - on the right mouse button - "Edit title".

I know you can change the name of 99% of everything, its one of the reasons I like your software, but you can not change the name of this menu. I am talking about the menu choices when you very first launch Wild Media Server from the client.

If version Version 0.72.4 added support for folder.jpg then why does nothing in my media collection have a thumbnail? And no it does not display movie information.jpg

I am fairly sure that the dynamic script example you have given me is not what I am after, heck it dosnt even seem to help the person the post is for.

In my last request what I am trying to say is get rid of the transcoding menu! You do not need a transcoding menu, it brings nothing but chaos to what would have been a fairly organized media collection. Simply design your software so if the file needs to be transcoded, then its transcoded automatically. This would be TVersity's transcode when needed option.

[Eugene]

Version 0.72.5 adds the ability to edit the parameters of the root folders of media structures. On the right-button "mouse" - "Structure of media resources" - on the right mouse button - "Edit title".

I know you can change the name of 99% of everything, its one of the reasons I like your software, but you can not change the name of this menu. I am talking about the menu choices when you very first launch Wild Media Server from the client.

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If version Version 0.72.4 added support for folder.jpg then why does nothing in my media collection have a thumbnail? And no it does not display movie information.jpg

In Watch Folders ?

In my last request what I am trying to say is get rid of the transcoding menu! You do not need a transcoding menu, it brings nothing but chaos to what would have been a fairly organized media collection. Simply design your software so if the file needs to be transcoded, then its transcoded automatically. This would be TVersity's transcode when needed option.

Just delete or hide Transcoding folder on right click mouse. No simple ways to determine embedded support for files. There are always exceptions, of which the developers do not even know.