Moviewall as Default?

[emotionnotion]

Seen the Moviewall in Phoenix screen images which looks great.

How do I get this to be the default view for all movies?

At the moment I have a list view like the default UI

[emotionnotion]

Hi Guys,

I have no ideal how to get to the Movie Wall or Coverflow view for movies in Phoenix; I only have the list view at present.

Is this covered in some documentation or wiki I can look at somewhere?

[bialio]

From the landing zone, hit options then select. At the bottom of the window that pops up you will see a 'Customize Landing Zone' item - you can select that and then unhide the views you are looking for. There is a Cover Flow, Movie Wall, Movie Flow - all are hidden by default.

You can also change the default browser to the Grid View, if you want everything to be presented as a wall.

btl.

[emotionnotion]

Thanks

Is BMT the only metadata provider I should be using for all the fanart?


I ask as I have limited memory and I am already running Phoenix core plus mymovies at present.

[PiX64]

In my opinion yes 100%. If u don't like the default sources for metadata I believe ther is a way to add additional sources but Sean would have to tell u for sure

[Gustovier]

Originally Posted by emotionnotion

Thanks

Is BMT the only metadata provider I should be using for all the fanart?


I ask as I have limited memory and I am already running Phoenix core plus mymovies at present.

Yes, you just need BMT + Phoenix core. MyMovies is not needed. I wouldn't even recommend it, as it just unnecessarily complicates your setup with the use of an outside application.

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by emotionnotion

Thanks

Is BMT the only metadata provider I should be using for all the fanart?


I ask as I have limited memory and I am already running Phoenix core plus mymovies at present.

Technically, Phoenix provides the fanart/metadata lookup services in the core. Even without BMT web ui installed Phoenix will automatically fetch metadata/fanart for newly added items. The BMT web ui is really just a Web UI to the metadata/fanart services in Phoenix.

[WellThen]

Originally Posted by bialio

From the landing zone, hit options then select. At the bottom of the window that pops up you will see a 'Customize Landing Zone' item - you can select that and then unhide the views you are looking for. There is a Cover Flow, Movie Wall, Movie Flow - all are hidden by default.

You can also change the default browser to the Grid View, if you want everything to be presented as a wall.

btl.

In the above, are you saying that it's possible to choose whether a given view is used for TV Shows versus Movies? I wanted to have the grid show for movies, and have the list show for TV Shows. But where I'm changing it, it seems to get set for both. Also, I don't see anything called "Cover Flow", "Movie Wall" or "Move Flow" no matter where I look. And by the way, I just installed Pheonix this weekend, so I should be current.

Oh! Could this be a symptom of having installed Pheonix on Sage V7 after having it installed on Sage 6?

[bialio]

There's not a way to set it to select a view based on the content of the view - the system doesn't know that view X is made up of all TV shows, while view Y is Movies.

What you can do is modify the Landing Zone to have menu items that launch a particular browser with a particular view.

Cover Flow, Movie Wall, and Movie Flow are all hidden by default in the current phoenix release, so you need to go in and un-hide them. This is done from the menu mentioned above.
btl.

[WellThen]

Thanks Bialo. The thing I was missing was to go right a second time after I selected Videos. I see the hidden items now.

[sflamm]

Sounds like a good enhancement if you could allow views to have meta data on their type - and allow a browser to be chosen automatically or selected from the view types.

Thoughts?