JustEric78 24 Posted January 12, 2014 Posted January 12, 2014 I noticed that the search shows Titles but it cannot be changed to actor. I am looking for a way within Media Player Classic to search by an actors name and see everything in my collection that they are in. I can do it on the web interface fairly easily. Can someone enlighten me to a way to do this within MCE?
Logos302 86 Posted January 12, 2014 Posted January 12, 2014 The way I do it while not the most fastest is. I find I moved that the actor is in, goto the actors screen and then select the actor, which then gives all the movies with the actor. But expect that what you want is movies by actor option similar to movies by genre.
JustEric78 24 Posted January 12, 2014 Author Posted January 12, 2014 Yea, I know you can do it as you described. Was just hoping for a search that I could type an actor's name into. I don't need a separate category as I don't use it often just want the option.
Logos302 86 Posted January 12, 2014 Posted January 12, 2014 I could be wrong but I think with MBC the only way for this to work would be with a Movies by actor section, possible a theme might do it as well but I'm not sure. But @@ebr would have to answer that to be sure.
JustEric78 24 Posted January 13, 2014 Author Posted January 13, 2014 Unfortunately index by actor is not an option. In the past with MB2 I would add the library a second time and then index that library by actor and call it Movies by Actor. In MB3 I cannot put the same UNC path twice so I have the choice of either having a general movies folder in alpha order or by actor and cannot do both. I would rather have alpha order if I had to choose one I suppose. Let me know if I am confused here please...
ebr 16169 Posted January 13, 2014 Posted January 13, 2014 When you want to find a movie by actor, just index it at that time.
JustEric78 24 Posted January 27, 2014 Author Posted January 27, 2014 For anyone curious I created a separate Movies by Actor folder and gave it a symbolic link to my main movie library so that I could add it a second time with the same path then indexed that library by actor. I tried indexing on the fly and with 40000 actors it goes slow and does not make for a smooth process when trying to look it up on the fly. Stinks there isn't a built in function for this like on the browser version. Love what you guys are doing though!
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