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Nothing is final with Lion quite yet. On our end we will be adding new features to the full screen browsing, making DVDpedia full screen mode even more appealing as a Front Row alternative. What we are not sure yet is if we will be building two fullscreen interfaces or adapting the existing one to ...

Someone has posted a way to reinstall Front Row under Lion. I tried it this morning, and it works. http://www.mac-hatter.com/blog/frontrowenablerforlion Unfortunately, the Front Row plug-in for DVDpedia doesn't seem to work. http://www.bruji.com/extras/dvdpediafrontrow.html I've written Para 9, the ...

Ah, got 'em! Thanks! The IMDB prefs setting for tags could be very useful. Will have to explore that one a bit more. And yep, I was hoping that "Show in Finder" would show the linked file. That way, I could browse through the DVDpedia listings, find a movie I wanted to watch, "Show li...

Hmmm. I know they're there. Somewhere, but danged if I can find them. Specifically, the new "Preference to add plot keywords into the tags from IMDb" -- what preference where? I can't find anything in the DVDpedia preferences related to this. Is it somewhere else? Also, "New contextua...

I've slowly been converting the family DVD/VHS collection to digital files stored on an external drive. The other day, the wife -- not normally a tv person and most definitely NOT technically inclined -- asked about "Heroes," which I had just added to DVDpedia. She wanted the big-screen tv...

I was trying to set up two smart collections -- one for entries with associated movie files and one for entries without. Thought that I could use the "URL" rule with "contains" and "/Volumes/", since those files are kept on an external drive and all of the link urls con...

Well, my video collection is growing rapidly, thanks to DVDpedia's excellent organizational/browsing features. But there's one snag to actually watching those videos -- the need to have iTunes do the uploading. Since I started using DVDpedia for organizing my video collection, I've stopped using iTu...

Just revisiting an old but close-to-my-heart topic.... I recently found an app in the iTunes app store, called wi-fi video (http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=297062930&mt=8), that does one thing and one thing only -- stream movies from a source computer to the iPh...

Still holding out for that purported Mac Mini upgrade as a home media server, but this issue of sharing a DVDpedia library among multiple computers/users is already one that I'm worried about, mainly because Number One son is now using PocketPedia to browse movies on his iPod touch and wants to be a...

So far, DVDpedia has been working wonderfully. Genuinely useful, not just a pretty list. I've now decided to commit the rest of my movie collection to DVDpedia, but this will entail moving a boatload of media files from a couple of small external drives to a larger dedicated external drive (yet to b...

Answered my own question...I think. At least the one about the warnings. I've been working in the collections, but just now, selected the Library, merged data from two entries, and then selected one of the entries and hit "Delete." Up popped a warning about deleting the movie from the Libr...

While going through recently imported DVD entries, I found several that had been assigned the wrong info from amazon.com. To be expected, since I had selected the entire list and gotten advanced data from amazon.com in one fell (but oh, so convenient) swoop. But I'm finding the process of correcting...

Yes, Apple's rather opaque approval process does have a chilling effect on new ideas from developers. Still, I take heart in knowing that eyeTV does have a streaming function via a web page, which is accessible on the touch/iPhone. And my experience with it has been positive. Movies play well with l...

Problem solved! I went back to Excel, saved the iTunes export list as plain text, and imported that into DVDpedia with excellent results. The vast majority of movies were assigned the QT icon, and clicking the links opens them in QT player. A few were assigned the generic-link paperclip, but this wa...

Thanks for the quick and detailed reply! After further testing, I discovered that the Unicode.txt format that I was using to save the Excel file was the reason for the paperclip icons, which I now know to indicate generic links, i.e., DVDpedia doesn't recognize the link as a movie file. But saving t...