My movies are out of control. They’re stored on harddrives, DVDs, VHS tapes, and kept in a variety of places. I have gone to some pains to test out some means of paperless cataloging of my media. This post is intended to save you some of that effort, should you decide to get your,um, media together.
I installed Movienizer and was sent to their website where a dummy library appeared. No information as to what to do next. I clicked the Add a Movie button and selected the option to add one from a file. It took quite a while to start browsing. It could not find the movie with the file name “Flirting With Forty (Recorded Dec 6, 2008, LIFE).mpg”, but found it by title very quickly. The resulting information was quite nice. Eventually I did figure out that I needed to create a database. The first database was a demonstration one. After creating a database, I repeated the search for the movie and saved the movie to my collection. There was an intriguing play button, but at first nothing happened when I clicked on it.
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