TVEz 0.2.1

TVEz is a browser-based system to play and manage movies, video clips and shows stored on local or remote file systems.

Main features:>
- Searches configured directories for video files
- Configuable to accept any file extension
- Web-based control to Xine
- Allows play, pause, stop, skip, seek, fast-forward and quit
- Integrated playlist with add/delete and clear functions
- Full volume control with mute/unmute
- Uses IMDB to retrieve movie information and pictures
- Retrieves large cover images from Amazon
- Stores movie information in MySQL
- Fully searchable by director, writers, actors, titles, etc.
- Lists directories with video files (no databases)
- Customizable shortcuts for tv shows organized by seasons
- TV show season links and Play All button
- Movie rating system to mark favorites
- Automatically checks for software updates

System requirements:
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Enhancements:
- All new look. Cleaner, better, and much cooler. TVEz now comes with different themes.
- Multi language support. Current languages are English and German. We are looking for people to help us out with translating TVEz into different languages. Refer to README.LANGUAGES for instructions about how to add a new language to TVEZ.
- User login feature. Users are allowed to start movies and shows and manage the playlist and administrators can add and modify the TVEz configuration, add and mocify movies and shows, and manage user accounts. Completely configurable profile settings. People who are not logged in, can still view TVEz.
- User preference have been integrated. The user can now set his own preferences to his/her liking.
- Preferred view settings.
- Lots of statistics and info about your collection, including the Top 10, the most frequent actors, directors, writer, genres, most watched and new release.
- Added graphs and bar charts of the statistics, showing the distribution of the movies by year, runtime, genres, language, country, etc.
- Added the complete cast listing from IMDB, including the parts played by the different actors.
- Changed search string for images in imdb_lib.pl to adjust for changes by IMDB.
- Changed search string for writers in imdb_lib.pl to adjust for changes by IMDB.