There have been a spate of video and media organization plug-ins launched for Windows Media Center recently, but one of the more high profile projects is the Open Media Library. Open Media Library, or OML, was first introduced to the world via The Green Button by dbldown768 and was quickly positioned as an open source version of the Niveus Movie Library. Niveus develops custom WMC plug-ins, such as the Niveus Movie Library, as exclusive value-adds for their high end WMC PCs. The original post on The Green Button caused a big splash and it wasn’t long before dbldown768 had started a new forum thread to announce that the source code of OML was available on Google Code. The project has grown, adding new developers and project leaders, and built a vibrant community at the Open Media Library Forum.
Although the source code has been available to anyone to compile, the OML project took its first step into the mainstream with its first beta release on July 29. The OML Google Code page now plays host to version 0.1b in both x64 and x86 flavors. The OML Forum is already abuzz with bug reports and feature requests and the OML team is actively listening.
Features completed as of version 0.1b:
I am already a few days late in noticing the update, but I will play with the beta release this weekend and will be back with my impressions next week. In the meantime, I look forward to hearing what you guys think of it.
August 1st, 2008 at 7:13 pm
This program needs some work. Installs OK. When I fire up VMC and click on the OML icon, it goes into a setup screen. You can import from DVDProfiler, DVRMS, MovieCollectorz, MyMovies, or you can scan your folder directly.
I do not have any of the plugins. When I try to “scan”, the only option that comes up is my local C drive. The interface is not very intuitive at this point, either. And no option to scan my WHS, which is where my movies are stored.
Until that option is there to scan network shares, it is pretty useless to me. Or if someone can tell how to fake out OML to look at my WHS…
August 2nd, 2008 at 6:35 am
try mapping your network share to your WHS this will add it like a hard drive and i am guess it might work that way.
August 2nd, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Duh! Works that way nicely. Except “Import All Movies” does not work. Have to add each item individually.