I have just knocked together an DVD cover grabber for people who have
the Windows XP Media Center Edition My DVD's reg fix enabled and want
to get the folder.jpg file.
http://www.madprops.org/DVDCover/
Basically run this app and 'Select Folder' then point it to your folder
of DVD's (not the DVD folder itself). It will then bring up the list of
DVD's you have. Click on a DVD and it will search Amazon and return
relevant covers. There is a 'Save' button that will then save the
currently viewed cover to the DVD folder and name the file 'folder.jpg'
which is required for viewing in MCE.
Its only simple and early days but makes things a bit easier to get
covers for your DVD.
It has been made in Visual Studio 2005 and required .net framework 2.0
I shall release the code before too long. I just want to neaten it up
and comment the code before its released. Check it out. Test it out.
Let me know what you think... and what you would like to see.
I know there are lots of things I would like to see.
Some technical foot notes:
Basically it does a simple query to amazon using the web services and
returns a xml file. I search through the nodes for the LargeImage node
(theres a bit of messing around for this). The main amazon file is
downloaded to the selected DVD folder (ie X:\My
Movies\Shaft\shaft.xml). Check it out... its relatively straight
forward. I then output my own XML file (ie ie X:\My
Movies\Shaft\shaft_images.xml) in the DVD folder. I then iterate
through each image and display in the app. The rest is pretty simple.
It just does does a save file when the Save button is selected.
Searches for each movie is only done once per day and only the
requested image is downloaded. I have not included caching for images
as yet.
Anyway let me know what you think.
Euan
PS. I know there is My Movies add on which does a nice job but this is just for people that prefer to use the DVD menu thing and want covers.