Media Browser and My Movies Updates Abound
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Media Browser and My Movies, two of the most popular media management plugins for Windows Media Center, have received updates. The My Movies updates are relatively minor pre-release updates consisting primarily of bug fixes and small feature updates, but the updates are spread across all of the major current My Movies products. My Movies for Windows 7 Media Center and My Movies Collection Management move to version 4.02 PR4 while My Movies for Windows Home Server 2011 gets bumped to version 2.10 PR4. These are pre-release updates, so standard beta software caveats do apply.
Update: MediaInfo DLL files updated.
Fix: Stop now stops playback correctly instead of leaving playback in lower left corner.
Fix: NFO for XBMC and BDMV folders are now stored differently.
Fix: XBMC meta-data now stores tbn files and not jpg files.
While My Movies continues to make steady incremental updates, Media Browser is making a big leap from version 2.3.2 to version 2.5 (codename Hydra). Hydra has been months in the making and stands to be a significant release.
This version is 2.5 because it represents some fairly major internal changes in the product. This won’t translate into a whole bunch of new features but should mean better performance and reliability overall. There are also some bug fixes and a few new features.
Please check out the changelog for more details.
The biggest change in Hydra has been to shift Media Browser from local caching to utilizing a SQL database for the cache. Advanced Media Browsers have had the option to enable an “ExperimentalSQLite” option for a while, but SQL will now be at the heart of Media Browser. Personally, I’m looking forward to seeing how this impacts performance.