Cinemar announces availability of the Digital Media Recognition system. The MLDMR addon to MainLobby suite makes MainLobby the easiest to maintain media system on the market.

The MLDMR plugin allows for a fully customizable and super easy to use means for anyone in the household to add movie and music media to the MainLobby system from any PC.

First up is support for Movie Recognition. Music should follow.

Lookup movies housed in either a Sony CX777ES changer, a Sony XL1B or Powerfile firewire changer (including dual drive support), a PC DVD optical drive, or movies that are already stored on hard drive. You can select where your movie(s) are located, and then click a MainLobby button to perform the lookup. Once the movie information is returned, it can be reviewed, edited and then stored in the DVDLobby database for viewing and launch control. There is an onscreen keyboard provided to manage your movie collection from a touchscreen.

The MLDMR system is very flexible in that it allows for lookups to be done at any Mainlobby client PC ("Lookup Stations") on the network from any of the supported movie hardware devices on the network.

The user interface is also completely configurable using the standard, optional and user generated graphics and scenes. Working examples are included to be used as a baseline.

MLDMR integrates tightly with DVDLobby Pro 3.75 version (and newer). It also integrates with the latest MLCX777ES plugin (included with MLServer3) and the new MLXL1B / Powerfile plugin (optional). There is also integration with the new MLClientSvc plugin to enable launching of applications on any PC on the LAN to perform post lookup processing (like to copy files from optical drive to hard drive for archiving).

With unprecedented support for hard-drive and DVD MegaChanger based systems (or a combination of the two), family and friends simply pop in a movie, click on the lookup button and can immediately see "What's Playing Tonight" With another click, they can be watching the movie on any display they choose in the home.

Sample Screenshot from a MLDMR Scene (optional graphics package shown - click for larger image)
MLDMR Features Completely configurable user interface design using MainLobby's Drag and Drop Design tools and graphical libraries Lookup movie metadata and coverart from All Media Guide with ability to save to the DVDLobby media database with a Click. Supports Sony CX777ES, Sony XL1B and Powerfile firewire changers, PC DVD optical drive, and hard drive based media storage systems. Provides for Text, DVD Disk ID, Table of Contents lookup capability for industry best recognition, no matter how the movie is stored or accessed. High quality movie metadata and coverart download is supported. Best in industry media recognition rate and quality due to the number of different lookup strategies supported. User selectable which changer, which slot(s) (or All) to lookup, which hard drive directory, which PC they want to lookup media from. Support for dual drive Powerfile changers for mass lookup and cataloging. Onscreen keyboard (included) allows for editing of movie information from a touchscreen. Sample scenes illustrating all capabilities included. MainLobby Suite requires at least one Windows XP or newer PC.       MLDMR installs with a 30 day trial period. During this period, you can test up to 25 movie lookups from a DVD changer - one at a time, multiples at once, or all 25 at once. You can also trial up to 25 text and hard drive lookups with saving to the DVDLobby database. Make sure you get to try all of these functions so you know the capabilities of MLDMR!