[joelfernandes]

Showing trailers in the app is a nice idea for the user initially, but loading the trailer from, for example a network attached storage device would make the app INCREDIBLY slow to work with, since it would need to download the trailer each time you selected a movie from the list, wait for it to be done, and only then can it move on.

I don't think you need to load the trailer every time the user changes the movie, just place a black screen with the play button and progress bar and that's it. If the user clicks play, then it loads the trailer.
Also, that panel (where the trailer is placed) should be resizable (vertically), that way the user can resize it to the minimum size and looks like it is right now (no trailer panel).

The details panel technically already shows if a fanart and poster is available by loading up the background and thumbnail image, but your edit does look quite nice.

Thanks! I do think it looks good there too. There's plenty of space on the movie details panel, and that way the user can check all the metadata in an easier way.

Rob and I had been discussing how to 'invert' the list for missing items, but I thought that would just bring confusion, so your transparent icons might just be a better idea.
Clicking on them to fetch them might not be practical though, since you wouldn't want users to miss-click.

Yup, I agree that with the transparent icons looks better to detect missing data. Regarding the clicking on them... Hmmm... I'm not sure if the users would miss-click on those icons (I mean the ones from the movie details window, not from the list). But, I get what you're saying. It was just an idea

There is currently an 'update metadata' hidden in the "File" menu which currently, amongst most of the other available metadata, updates any ratings as well. ^^

That is handy

As for the Apocalypse now problem, try opening the folder in the finder and manually throwing everything out except the movie file before going back to ViMM, refreshing the list and then fetching information.

I tried it, still nothing. It did download the poster and fanart, and also created the nfo file, but it doesn't show either the poster or fanart (the icons are on tho).

I've also suggested that there be a way to filter the movie list to show movies that have missing metadata. I thought maybe an inverted list where you see a list of movies and if a movie is missing metadata then you would see the icons of metadata that is missing, for example, if a movie had the poster and the fanart but was missing the trailer then you would see that movie in the list with a trailer icon.

The basic premise is that you should able to view what is missing in your movie collection like you would a to-do list. When you've completed getting all of the metadata the list would be empty because you were done. In this way if ViMM didn't find metadata for a movie you could search elsewhere and when you found it you could refresh the inverted list to see that it was now found and only xx number to go.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on this and if you think there might be a better way to do this as we haven't settled on anything yet and want to figure out something that isn't confusing to the user. I think a toggle switch would make it very clear but maybe you have a better idea.

That's definitely a filter ViMM should have, regarding how to show it and how it should work... hmmm... I can't think right away of a awesome and easy way to do it, but I will definitely think about it and try to come out with a concept

Another thing we've been discussing is adding other available metadata such as languages, cast, crew, etc...

I would love to see any design ideas you have for how we could display this as well.

That's a good idea to include all that data there. I'll see a cool way to show it for sure

Finally, I'm with you on the trailer, but it should simply load a play trailer button and maybe you could even hide that window altogether if you aren't using it, similar to the way you can hide iTunes cover art or other iTunes aspects when not in use. Having a black area with a play button in it could be a very small size image that wouldn't impact ViMM's speed and when you click it then it would load the trailer.

The idea for the trailer is just to fill some space on the window, it's very empty. Like I said before, the trailer is not loaded when you change the movie from the list, instead it's just a black video screen with the control buttons on the bottom (in that screenshot I used youtube concept just to show as an example). The video is only loaded when the user clicks play. Of course that all that area can be hidden. My thought on that is to work that area as a resizable area, where the user can shrink it to the bottom in order to hide the video.

Personally I'm looking forward to the day when I use ViMM to get visibility into my movie collection rather than sitting in front of my TV to decide which movies to watch.

Another idea I had was to be able to create a Favorites and Watch (Next) List. Eventually some of these things could be socially network shared.

Oh man... I'm with you! I would love to have a really cool app to do all the movie browsing and etc.. I have a bunch of ideas. To be honest, I'm not sharing them yet because I think ViMM still needs to get better on what it does right now. Personally, the only thing that really bothers me is the speed. Right now I have about +100 and it is kinda slow to open/load, but I've been rebuilding my collections. I had +500 movies before and, man! That was really slow. But at the time I was using 0.5, I guess.

My top feature request for ViMM it's the speed indeed

If it doesn't get better now, it will be harder after implementing new features like favorites, extras, etc