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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 | ||
===== Movie metadata and artwork ===== | ===== Movie metadata and artwork ===== | ||
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* Year | * Year | ||
* Director | * Director | ||
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+ | * Recently Added | ||
These playlists let you browse your collection of movies. You can edit, change, move or delete these playlists as you wish. | These playlists let you browse your collection of movies. You can edit, change, move or delete these playlists as you wish. | ||
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. | 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 ===== | ===== Movie sets ===== | ||
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===== Preferred audio language ===== | ===== Preferred audio language ===== | ||
+ | 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. | ||
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+ | 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. | ||
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+ | 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**. | ||
===== Preferred subtitle language ===== | ===== Preferred subtitle language ===== | ||
+ | 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. | ||
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+ | 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. | ||
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+ | 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. |