myTV 1.0.08040

[emigrating]

Hi guys, it was suggested to me by a few members that I should perhaps do an 'announcement' that there was a new myTV trial released. So, that's what I'm doing

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Right, so myTV 1.0.08040 has been released. This is an application (commercial, although free trials are available) to organize your downloaded, ripped or recorded TV series under Windows Vista Media Center (no 2k5 available or planned).

Basically it will automatically download and update metadata for all your 'tracked' series/episodes and display them to you in a userfriendly way within Vista Media Center. All this metadata is stored on a 'local' SQL database (although, client/server scenarios are supported - where you have ONE server and several clients connected to the same database) as opposed to other solutions requiring .xml files cluttering up your filesystem.

The application also tracks what you have watched, when. Which definitely heightens the WAF with at least two points This way, you no longer have to remember if you've seen a certain episode of Heroes or not - either navigate to the episode selection screen and get visual confirmation, or simply press the 'Play Next' button which is visible if there are new episodes.

There is also a separate 'New Episodes' screen, which will display any unwatched episodes aired (or if aired date is unavailable, added date) within the past 1/3/7/14/31 days.

Development of this is still on-going, but I believe (as does my betatesters) this is the final 1.0 - although, there will be a maintenance release shortly to properly implement Extender support (ie. file transcoding).

If any of this sounds interesting, please head over the the myTV website and have a look. Trial editions are available from here and the official 'support' forum here (please keep in mind, most of the problems posted are related to the old pre-release - I'll get around to cleaning it up one of these days).

Any questions feel free to post either here or at the official forums.

[MP4me]

After a bit of stuffing around to get it running (my fault "RTFM"), I am very impressed.
How long does the trial last, I will definitely buy as this is a plugin that sits at the top of my list.

[emigrating]

Trial should give you two weeks to test it out (actually, it should give you a date when you start the application - unless this was left out of the latest release).

Will be doing full 30 day trial periods once the registration system is fully up and running though.

Btw: I'd be interested in knowing which part of the [almost nonexistant] 'manual' you hadn't followed

[MP4me]

I was installing the plugin while my 4 year old daughter was distracting me and I missed the instruction on the username prefix ./, embarrassing really.

[emigrating]

Oh, ok. So there was nothing 'missing' from the installer then

There's been a few people with the same problem actually, so I'm changing this to simply allow for the username by itself for future releases.