Comments on: How to get locally copied DVDs to show up in My DVDs

By: Davey

Davey — Thu, 01 May 2008 06:55:42 +0000

Like George and Patrick, I edited the registry to show my DVD gallery. It has worked fine for quite some time but now every time I try to enter the gallery MCE crashes, without an obvious error. Any ideas?????
I cannot restore as I do not have any restore points. Any other solution except complete reinstall and loss of all.

By: CCF

CCF — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:35:29 +0000

Follow Up Question: How do you categorize your archive, say from Thrillers, Action, Drama, etc…
Right now, they are all just being organized via title or date added or Type. Thank you.

By: CCF

CCF — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 04:25:45 +0000

Very informative WebSite – Thank you!
Question: Is there a quality difference archiving DVDS into your Hard Drive using NERO versus ANYDVD. I noticed a substantial difference in time using ANYDVD – Much Faster, but I’m afraid that the quality is less. Please advice.

Thank you very much again.

By: Austin Harper

Austin Harper — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 04:34:56 +0000

When I this, I end up with the DVD showing up in “My DVDs”, but just with the DVD labled whatever the name of the folder is (in this case, Star Trek 2). When I click on that movie, it just says “Star Trek 2″ next to the cover image and “C:\My DVDs\Star Trek 2″ beneath it.

By: Carl

Carl — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:18:01 +0000

Running Vista Home Premium. Wanted to use this hack as it looks cleaner than mymovies. I have about 500 DVD’s online each within thier own folder structure like this.. d:\Aliens\Video_ts
I edited the registry and myDVD’s shows up now but none on my collection does. Told video to monitor the folders.
Cannot find the :\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Microsoft\eHome\DvdInfoCache folder within Vista

By: duranh

duranh — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:31:03 +0000

I was able to get my dvd’s to show up in Vista’s Media Center when the dvd’s were on my C: drive. Now I have an external 500gig My Book. All of my ripped dvd’s are stored on it and I configured Media Center to look at that drive. Now I can’t see those movies any longer. Right now all of the movies are stored in folders directly on the large drive. Do they need to be in a parent folder or something?

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 03:48:33 +0000

jmtasu: I have mine on a USB drive… I was having your problem until I moved my individual dvd folders to the root of the external drive. I found that if the path was more than two folders deeper than the root of a drive MCE couldn’t find it.

Vista Ultimate.

By: George

George — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:50:45 +0000

Hi guys i’m in the same boat as Patrick (Vista Ultimate). Sice changing the registry, every time I go into the DVD Library, MCE just crashes and restarts.

Also, I can’t get rid of the local drive(C:) from my video library…. any ideas??

Thanks guys

By: phil

phil — Mon, 21 May 2007 19:54:42 +0000

Hi Guy’s,

Just to help on the dvdxml file if you go to http://www.dvdxml.com regester and then download the info file for the film you require, then drop it in the folder containing the film and there you have it all the info and the cover art.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 11 May 2007 17:21:16 +0000

Hi, Me too I have vista Ultimate. After changing the registry setting every time I go to My DVD’s the media center crashes and restarts. Anyone have a workaround or fix?