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I'm interested to know how everyone organises their video library, mostly the digitised content VLC can play.
Two reasons
1) I have a reasonable sized library and find scrolling through a list of directories a poor way of selecting a movie to watch.
2) Some interest has been shown in adding a library function to VLC, so knowing what features are valued may help define a new VLC capability. See viewtopic.php?f=2&t=47240

I would like to be able to sit at my home media player, and have it help me choose a movie e.g. a
G animated movie for the kids or
romantic comedy with high imdb rating or
Then read the review on http://www.imdb.com/ or http://au.rottentomatoes.com/ then play the movie
Software which appears to do assist in managing a movie collection that I'm aware of includes:

abcAVI Tag Editor http://www.exefind.com/abcavi-tag-editor-P21011.html
Reads AVI tags, imports data IMDB

Personal Video Database http://www.videodb.info/forum_en/
can scan files, lookup multiple online databases, ongoing active development

Ant Movie Catalogue http://www.antp.be/software/moviecatalog/features
Was popular but it appears as if further development has slowed or stopped
Limited support for mass importing avi http://forum.antp.be/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=229

IMDB Movie DB http://www.dancemammal.com/moviedb.htm

eXtreme Movie Manager http://www.binaryworks.it/extrememoviemanager/
Sounds OK, ongoing development. Requires registration 10 euros
Wish list http://www.binaryworks.it/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=769
Mass import and updating database after files moves a little cryptic
Moving movie location via search & replace http://www.binaryworks.it/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3518
Database move via copy folder tree http://www.binaryworks.it/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2192
Batch add http://www.binaryworks.it/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2092
Linking hard disc scan to movie database http://www.binaryworks.it/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3445

Does anyone have any experience in these, or other movie database / tagging programs and can comment on their strengths & weaknesses?

I cannot contribute any suggestions or solutions as I am a new user. However, I am keenly interested in organizing my growing library. I'll be watching for further replies!

Thank you for introducing this topic.

Added more info to first post

Have been trying Personal Video Database.
It is actually very good. Data importing from multiple sources works well, as does mass importing and file position update.
Writing some form of tags back to the movie files directory has been discussed, later support not discounted. http://www.videodb.info/forum_en/index.php?topic=870.0

yeah i would love this feature

Personal video database (PVD) actually works very well with videoLAN http://www.videodb.info

I use PVD to catalogue my movies and import data from imdb, allmovie, and amazon.
I then choose which moivie I want to watch using PVD

When the play button in PVD is clicked it then used the default player for that file type, which in my case is VLC media player.

BTW
It PVD will support movie tagging as discussed http://www.videodb.info/forum_en/index.php?topic=870.20
But will need to wait for the next major update, expected to be released within weeks http://www.videodb.info/forum_en/index.php?topic=908.0