It's a couple of different applications/services, but they all work together without any intervention.
First you need to install SQLExpress 2005 and SP2, as this is needed so it can store all the information on series/episodes/artwork. If you already have myMovies installed, you can just use the version of SQLExpress that is installed when you install that.
When you install the app, it installs two programs. The MCML application, and the myTVservice. The myTVservice is what grabs the information from tvdb.com and monitors the folders for new episodes.
Through the MCML application you have to add watched folders, these are different to the ones watched by VMC. Once you have done that it will monitor those folders and automatically add new episodes to the database.
It grabs series information from the first folder, so if for instance you have a folder called scrubs in the monitored folder it will ask you to match the folder scrubs against the series from thetvdb.com.
Once you've done that anything in that folder is considered to be a scrubs episode (provided it is a video, I know it works for .avi and .mkv at the very least) and will add it to the database, grabbing the episode name, episode synopsis etc. It can accept a variety of naming conventions for files.
i.e scrubs.s01e04.the episode title, 1x4 - the episode title, or s1xe4 - the episode title will be parsed as Series 1, Episode 4 and the service will go the tvdb.com to download the information for that particular episode and insert it into the database.
You can have the files in any type of order under the original series folder (I have mine under series 1, seris 2 etc due to other apps) but this is transparent to the myTVservice.
It also monitors when an episode is watched and includes an unobtrusive tick on the episode thumbnail.
Personally, I'm not a fan of the Helix skin that is shown on the home page and I use the banner skin that looks like the tvLibrary one.
The navigation is currently as follows
Show Banner
- Series DVD Cover- Episodes in the series
It's the best TV management app I've found, and paid the $10 for the commercial license before I even tried it after reading what it could do. There are a few bugs with it at the moment, mainly a couple of graphical glitches but it's still less buggy than anything else I've found.
According to the developer, there is hopefully going to be a free trial of version 1 out before Christmas.