The other day I received the CERT movie intro disc I won in the My Movies Contribution Contest last month, I processed the videos and got them into mpg format so I could play them on the 360 extender.
Turns out the two DTS intros on the disc wont work over the extender which is likely due to a bug since its just pass through.
Well going through this process got me thinking about what a intro support in my movies would look like, things that came to mind included:
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Feature should be a My Movies wide setting and not per title.
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Feature should randomly select intros from a list of configured intros.
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Feature should have a means to deal with audio track (DTS, DD, etc) specific intro's.
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This could be implemented by detecting the audio track format in the title being played and then if a intro has been tagged as being a audio format specific then detect the intro's audio format and only play it if it matches.
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This could also be done by relying on manually associated tags on titles and the intros, if a title has not been tagged with its audio track it would only get the non-audio format specific intros.
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Feature would dynamically create play lists that would be invoked instead of the movie itself, these would kept in a per user location and not stored with the movie, they would be replaced for each movie.
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Feature would have user experience in the Collection Manager that would be used to enable and configure this behavior.
Not a complicated feature per-se, but a fair amount of work would be needed to enable this scenario and there are lots more "mainstream" features that are needed in My Movies so I guess I can't expect to see this anytime soon.