Comments on: Software Review: My Movies 3.0 for Windows Media Center

By: DamianP

DamianP — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:07:27 +0000

Codecs are required if you are trying to play back content that isn't supported by the internal WMC player (i.e mkv, vc-1 m2ts, etc…)

By: James Walker

James Walker — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:26:42 +0000

Jim- I just loaded Mymovies 4 and trying to use it with windows 7 pro Mediacenter – however when I go to play movies through Windows 7 MCE the video is nothing but green squares, did you have to load any codecs?

By: Hagrid

Hagrid — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 10:58:15 +0000

my movies is very bad, large size

By: urmaster

urmaster — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:41:16 +0000

Yup guest has been enabled since I bought WHS, read permission is on the video folder.

By: Kabuki

Kabuki — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:25:55 +0000

Is there a folder view in MyMovies? I do like to store all movies for my Kids in a separate folder, so that they cannot see the other movies.

By: revenger

revenger — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:19:45 +0000

If you use MyMovies for WHS then you have to enable the Guest account in WHS.

By: talex

talex — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:07:18 +0000

have not tried mm 3 yet but have been using I think 2.7 or so. Always works fine for cateloging. I have 600+ movies in .avi format stored on my whs in videosmoviesmovienamemoviename.avi. I tell my movies to look at the videosmovies folder and it identifies almost all of them on it's own. Will be giving 3.0 a try soon, just installed win 7 on main pc in living room. I also have used media browser which also is excellent and has a nicer interface so far as I can tell but I think media browser requires meta data from something like mm to work.

By: urmaster

urmaster — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:33:43 +0000

First gen EX470, I stream HD and SD movies on a regular basis (sometimes simultaneously). I've never had a problem like that; maybe he's running the Lx series.
I've got 4 drives and duplication on almost all folders too.

By: DamianP

DamianP — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:17:06 +0000

I stream HD content regularly to my 2 HTPCs in my house from my WHS and don't have any issues, and I know quite a few people who do the same exact thing. The issue you had may have been the result of an underpowered WHS. as I know folks who were running with the first gen single core EX470 encountered the same issue.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:31:00 +0000

Also:
If you go to HD content check out the YAMJ (similar user interface to My Movies) interface for the Popcorn Hour. As I said most of my content is now HD via a 1080P projector on a 10ft. screen is the YAMJ interface is great. Also, I used to use XLobby which was a free product on my HTPC that was similar to My Movies, but did not require the MC PC. I do not know if it is still around.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:30:42 +0000

First of all it looks like you are just using the WHS to be your network story for the movies and then using My Movies to display and play them. I have had a HTPC (Home Theater PC) for 6-7 years and just had them on a network share. Then I moved to a Popcorn Hour unit and I have most of my collection in HD now. I also have a WHS and moved a 1TB drive to my WHS and would stream the collection from their. The problem I ran into was that the WHS kept running a disk balancing (can not remember the program but very will documented) right in the middle of watching a movie and then it would take up to 80-90% of the CPU and have a problem streaming the data. It may work fine for regular DVDs but I finally just pulled the 1TB drive out and moved it to a dedicated machine.

Do not get me wrong I love WHS and have had it since it came out, and for network shares, backups and remote access to files and machines it works great. But a a big drive in the sky for streaming HD content it does not fly.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:06:51 +0000

@Brian Binnerup

"The purpose of My Movies for WHS is to have the WHS function as a server back-end for multiple clients, as well as giving fully automatic DVD and CD copying directly on the server, without the need for any user interaction – in my house it means that both my kids and wife know that they just insert a disc onto the WHS drive, and when it pops out, it's available on their Media Centers."