Configuring My Movies
When you start the Dashboard you will see a new tab – My Movies.
Depending on how quickly you click on the My Movies tab after the installation, you may see a message saying that SQL Server 2008 R2 Express is downloading. You cannot use My Movies until this has completed downloading and installing.
When the installation has completed you can see the add-in listed in the Add-ins tab.
You now need to go through and make your settings selections, including logging in.
On the General tab:
In order to get it to work you need to log in to your My Movies account, so click Log in and enter your username and password.
You will then see your account details, including available points shown.
On the Disk Copier tab:
Click on the Install button next to AnyDVD.
Thanks for the review. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a negative review for My Movies.
One thing that is still unclear to me is how the various components of My Movies work together. I do not have a disc drive in my home server and I only have an Atom processor, so I’m not really interested in disc ripping on my server. All I want to do is store my movies and TV series on my home server and serve them to my media centre – do I still need the WHS version of My Movies, or will it all run from the Media Centre?
Thanks,
Richard
Hi Richard
No, you don’t need the WHS version of My Movies to do what you want to do.
You will need My Movies on your Media Center and also the collection management software as well.
Then just have My Movies monitor the share on your home server for the media and thats it.
I have the same setup but with the files stored locally on the Media Center, but it works just the same as My Movies just looks at wherever you tell it.
Andrew
I am glad to hear that you have had success. I on the other hand have not. I found bugs, installation problems, ripping problems and quality issues. I have also found the lack of support to be a deal breaker. I honestly wanted this to work for me. I was prepared to buy until I tried it out.
I am using the My Movies for Windows Home Server 2011 Version: 2.00 Release date: June 28’th 2011. I ran into problems early so I started a thread to find that support does not exist for My Movies. I felt like I was I was not welcome on the forums and god forbid that I ran into problems.
Here is my fair review from my experience with My Movies.
http://forums.usingwindowshomeserver.com/topic/527-my-movies-review/
Thank you for your comments and feedback. I have asked Brian Binnerup to respond, so stay tuned.