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====== Managing your collection of movies ====== | ====== Managing your collection of movies ====== | ||
- | Mezzmo lets you add your collection of movies and stream them to your devices and web browsers. You can organize your movie collection how you you like - for example, a 1:1 representation of your folders, or organized by attributes such as Genre, Year, Actor, Movie Set, etc. | + | Mezzmo lets you add your collection of movies and stream them to your devices and web browsers. You can organize your movie collection how you like - for example, a 1:1 representation of your folders, or organized by attributes such as Genre, Year, Actor, Movie Set, etc. |
All popular video formats are supported. Formats that are not compatible with your devices or web browsers are automatically transcoded. | All popular video formats are supported. Formats that are not compatible with your devices or web browsers are automatically transcoded. | ||
All popular subtitles are supported - including external subtitles, embedded subtitles and burning subtitles. | All popular subtitles are supported - including external subtitles, embedded subtitles and burning subtitles. | ||
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+ | ===== Naming your movie video files ===== | ||
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+ | Mezzmo can pick up the name and year of your movies if you follow Mezzmo's supported file naming styles. See Supported_Filenames|Supported file name styles]]. | ||
===== Movie metadata and artwork ===== | ===== Movie metadata and artwork ===== | ||
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When you install Mezzmo, it installs a default set of playlists - including the following for your movie collection: | When you install Mezzmo, it installs a default set of playlists - including the following for your movie collection: | ||
* Movies | * Movies | ||
- | * Movies ( | + | * Movies (Unwatched) |
+ | * Actor | ||
+ | * Genre | ||
+ | * Year | ||
+ | * Director | ||
+ | * Last 50 Played | ||
+ | * Recently Added | ||
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+ | These playlists let you browse your collection of movies. You can edit, change, move or delete these playlists as you wish. | ||
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+ | You can easily extend the number of playlists for your movie collection by creating your own smart playlists and active playlists in your Mezzmo library. | ||
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+ | **Tip:** When a video is detected to be a movie, then the **Category** attribute for the video is set to **Movie**. You can use this Category value when creating smart playlists and active playlists. | ||
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+ | ===== Movie sets ===== | ||
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+ | Mezzmo can organize your movies into movie sets for better organization. Movies sets are typically for sequels or movies that are a part of a directly related series. | ||
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+ | Mezzmo will automatically collect movie set information from your external metadata files (e.g. .NFO files created with Kodi) and from online movie sites such as www.TheMovieDB.org. | ||
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+ | To view or edit the movie set value for a movie, right-click on a movie in Mezzmo and click Properties. On the **Properties** dialog, you can view/edit the **Series** edit box. | ||
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+ | You can easily create a Movie Set active playlist in your Mezzmo library using the Album / Series keyword in the keyword hierarchy. | ||
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+ | ===== DVD movies ===== | ||
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+ | Mezzmo lets you add, organize and stream your DVD rips and DVD ISOs. Mezzmo automatically finds all the videos in your DVD and adds them into your Mezzmo library. | ||
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+ | ===== Blu-ray movies ===== | ||
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+ | Mezzmo lets you add, organize and stream your Blu-ray rips and Blu-ray ISOs. Mezzmo automatically finds all the videos in your Blu-ray and adds them into your Mezzmo library. | ||
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+ | ===== 3D movies ===== | ||
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+ | Mezzmo lets you stream 3D movies to your 3D-capable TVs. Mezzmo also lets you add 3D Blu-ray rips and ISOs. | ||
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+ | To specify a movie is in 3D format, right-click on the video and and click **Properties**. On the **Properties** dialog, go to the Video tab and set the **Perspective** button. | ||
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+ | ===== Preferred audio language ===== | ||
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+ | When your movies have multiple audio channels, you may want Mezzmo to only stream a certain audio language (e.g. English) so you don't get the wrong language audio played. | ||
- | Movie sets | + | To set the preferred audio language for all your movies, go to the **Options dialog (Streaming page)** and set your preferred audio language. This will be applied to all your videos. |
- | Blu-ray movies | + | To set the preferred audio language for a particular movie, right-click on the video in Mezzmo and click Properties. On the **Properties** dialog, go to the **Video tab** and set the **Preferred audio channel**. |
- | DVD movies | + | ===== Preferred subtitle language ===== |
- | 3D movies | + | When your movies have multiple subtitles (external or embedded), you may want Mezzmo to only stream a certain subtitle language (e.g. English) so you don't get the wrong language subtitles displayed. |
- | Preferred audio language | + | To set the preferred subtitle language for all your movies, go to the **Options dialog (Subtitles page)** and set your preferred subtitle language. This will be applied to all your videos. |
- | Preferred subtitle language | + | To set the preferred subtitle language for a particular movie, right-click on the video in Mezzmo and click Properties. On the **Properties** dialog, go to the **Subtitles tab** and select the subtitles you want streamed and deselect those that you do not want streamed. |