DVD Library and parental control of ripped movies

[perrottg]

Is there anyway to have the parental control feature work for dvds that have been ripped to the hard disk?

I use Clone DVD to rip the dvds and this seem to remove the rating.

[DDH]

Have a look at myMovies. It can be set to use the standard MCE parental controls. Haven't run this restriction in anger myself yet.

[scotto74]

I've never been able to get VMC's native parental controls working with the DVD gallery.
The DVDID.xml files have an element for specifying the rating, but VMC for whatever reason doesn't seem to honour the rating.

Supposedly when it works as it should, these titles still appear in the gallery, but won't play without entering the required password/PIN.

The good thing about My Movies is that it can hide titles from even appearing in the gallery without the appropriate unlock code (so "questionable" cover art won't upset the kiddies. I'm talking about 'scary' movies, of course...get your filthy minds out of the gutter!

[perrottg]

Originally Posted by scotto74

I've never been able to get VMC's native parental controls working with the DVD gallery.
The DVDID.xml files have an element for specifying the rating, but VMC for whatever reason doesn't seem to honour the rating.

Supposedly when it works as it should, these titles still appear in the gallery, but won't play without entering the required password/PIN.

The good thing about My Movies is that it can hide titles from even appearing in the gallery without the appropriate unlock code (so "questionable" cover art won't upset the kiddies. I'm talking about 'scary' movies, of course...get your filthy minds out of the gutter!

My understanding is that the parental control feature in VMC looks to the looks at the rating on the physical media and not the one provided in the metadata of the dvdid.xml file. Therefore this feature will only work on physical media as the ripping process seems to remove the rating from the disc. This understanding is from observed behaviour and I could be totally wrong.

Agree that the way MyMovies hides the entire dvd from the library is better. I have tried MyMovies in the past but found the UI some what ugly and frustarting to use.

The DVD Library only needs some minor improvements IMHO and it would be fantastic. Some extra options to group dvds (like genre), better parental control and a more robust way of loading the metadata (dvdid.xml) would be major step forward.