Web based media library manager

tommycahir

Hi All

I am hoping somebody can help me, I have a NAS that has approx 500 movies on it and 30 complete TV show series, I am accessing this via the WDTV Live streaming however I find their media library a real pain to work with as it doesn't scan the files correctly so I am now looking at a web based media library manager that will run on the NAS and scan the folders automatically and present the collection via browser with filtering for genre, year, date added etc.
I have had a look at all the following (link) and they all seem to be PC based rather than web based so any recommendations would be great before I undertake to write my own applictaion for this.

Regards
Tommy

PogMoThoin

tommycahir wrote: »

Hi All

I am hoping somebody can help me, I have a NAS that has approx 500 movies on it and 30 complete TV show series, I am accessing this via the WDTV Live streaming however I find their media library a real pain to work with as it doesn't scan the files correctly so I am now looking at a web based media library manager that will run on the NAS and scan the folders automatically and present the collection via browser with filtering for genre, year, date added etc.
I have had a look at all the following (link) and they all seem to be PC based rather than web based so any recommendations would be great before I undertake to write my own applictaion for this.

Regards
Tommy

XBMC, it's the mutts nuts http://xbmc.org/

tommycahir

PogMoThoin wrote: »

XBMC, it's the mutts nuts http://xbmc.org/

while XBMC is an excellent piece of software I am not looking for a media player but more so a media manager or collection manager that can be run from a local hosted web stack (Linux, apache, mysql,php) on my NAS (QNAP 212) and that will output the library in a html format augmented with details from sources themoviedb or tvdb

PogMoThoin

tommycahir wrote: »

while XBMC is an excellent piece of software I am not looking for a media player but more so a media manager or collection manager that can be run from a local hosted web stack (Linux, apache, mysql,php) on my NAS (QNAP 212) and that will output the library in a html format augmented with details from sources themoviedb or tvdb

Ah, have a look in here, there are a few: http://forum.xbmc.org/forumdisplay.php?fid=116

This one is windows only: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=160863

XBMC is so much more than just a player though, it's a full database. You could install it and use some of the tools available to remotely access the library. It even has web access

tommycahir

PogMoThoin wrote: »

Ah, have a look in here, there are a few: http://forum.xbmc.org/forumdisplay.php?fid=116

This one is windows only: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=160863

XBMC is so much more than just a player though, it's a full database. You could install it and use some of the tools available to remotely access the library. It even has web access

Thanks PogMoThoin must look into it more than as I had it down mainly as a player/media centre app rather than a complete media manager/library.

demon1

+1 one for xbmc but you might also look at media companion. This will write all the tv movie info to your folders and helps if your xbmc installation fails and you have to g0 through the whole effort of rebuilding the database.

http://mediacompanion.codeplex.com/

PogMoThoin

I use Ember, it's very similar http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=116941

tommycahir

Thanks for the replies guys, I have used Ember before and while it is an excellent app it is PC based whereas I am looking for something that can run from my NAS in a browser.

I have had a look at XBMC and looks like I can't install it on my QNAP 212 as a media library without the playback functions.. To even use the web frontends I would have to install XBMC on my laptop, build it to use a MYSQL db, use one of the web front end plugin and then to update the mysql db it seems I would have to open xbmc on my laptop

PogMoThoin

tommycahir wrote: »

Thanks for the replies guys, I have used Ember before and while it is an excellent app it is PC based whereas I am looking for something that can run from my NAS in a browser.

I have had a look at XBMC and looks like I can't install it on my QNAP 212 as a media library without the playback functions.. To even use the web frontends I would have to install XBMC on my laptop, build it to use a MYSQL db, use one of the web front end plugin and then to update the mysql db it seems I would have to open xbmc on my laptop

I'm not sure why that is a problem. Your request is strange, you have NAS, why not just use a player on each device and a central XBMC db on the NAS
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=HOW-TO:Sync_multiple_libraries.

I'm not sure why it must be browser based. XBMC is multiplatform and light enough you can run it on an Android smartphone or Raspberry Pi

tommycahir

PogMoThoin wrote: »

I'm not sure why that is a problem. Your request is strange, you have NAS, why not just use a player on each device and a central XBMC db on the NAS
http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=HOW-TO:Sync_multiple_libraries.

I'm not sure why it must be browser based. XBMC is multiplatform and light enough you can run it on an Android smartphone or Raspberry Pi

Yeah pretty odd request alright as I am basically looking to get some scripts that will build a list of all movies on NAS and provide details from thetvdb.com and themoviedb.org all using a DB backend which is automatically updated..

Will have to look further at XBMC I guess and its clients for iPad and Android.

Ste-

demon1 wrote: »

+1 one for xbmc but you might also look at media companion. This will write all the tv movie info to your folders and helps if your xbmc installation fails and you have to g0 through the whole effort of rebuilding the database.

http://mediacompanion.codeplex.com/

Anything like this but on linux ?

kdceddj

What about plex? You could install the server component under Linux (they have some builds for the nases even if i didnt check your nas in particular) and use the web interface to manage it. It has all the scraping of the info done for you.
If in the future you may want to install plex on the clients and just use that