Add poster thumbnails to HTML report

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Like for example xMDB reports: w3net.eu/code/movieDB/films.htm

Although I can't get it working with my limited knowledge of xml/html 
processing.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by baskoth...@gmail.com on 25 Jun 2010 at 10:05

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Original comment by psou...@gmail.com on 29 Jun 2010 at 2:52

• Changed title: Add poster thumbnails to HTML report
• Added labels: Component-Cosmetic, Type-FeatureRequest
• Removed labels: Type-Bug

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Original comment by psou...@gmail.com on 4 Aug 2010 at 1:43

• Changed state: Accepted

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This is exactly what I am looking for as well ... in addition, it would be 
great if the export could include the movie synopsis as well ... the idea here 
is to create a "document" that could be printed and kept handy to make it easy 
for my family members to browse the collection offline and choose what they 
want to watch rather than having to browse through a very large colelction in 
Media Browser, hopping back and forth between Genres, etc.

Original comment by eric.van...@gmail.com on 29 Sep 2010 at 2:03

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Issue 225 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by psou...@gmail.com on 29 Sep 2010 at 4:03

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Comments from tomrogers2@cox.net, Sep 27 2010 (issue #225):

"From the Media menu there is the option to export Media to HTML. When that 
option is selected MCM creates a local HTML file with details of all the media 
in MCM. Great feature that I absolutely love.  

Right now It shows for movies = Title, Year, Links to online database pages, 
Runtime, MPAA, Score, Indicators if Backgrounds, posters, subtitles, and 
trailers are absent/ present, quality description, Video details (resolution, 
codec, bit-rate) and Audio details (number of channels, codec and bit-rate)

I think it would be even better if the Export were customizable. For example if 
there were a tab on the Settings & Preference pop-up with tick boxes to select 
and deselect What Information you want on your list. I would also like to see 
included is additional options like container type/ file extension, studio, and 
genre. Possibly even Director and first listed actors. If actors was included, 
a pull-down menu could be included to specify how many actors to list.

I also think the option to export to different file types might be nice. For 
example .txt, .pdf, .html, .csv or some other widely accepted or importable 
spreadsheet format. Possibly even file location links to the movie, trailer, 
poster and backdrop or just to containing folder. I don't think I'd use the 
file location links much but others might.

Using MCM v1.26 (build 26910.949)
Using for MediaBrowser, MCE, XBMC, Boxee

Thanks for the wonderful program. It's easy enough that My mom can use it for 
her HTPC without me having to come over all the time to update her data. I 
think that MCM is the best meta-data collector and tool I've used. I've 
recommended it to all my friends."

Original comment by psou...@gmail.com on 29 Sep 2010 at 4:04

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• Removed labels: Priority-Low

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The idea of including movie posters and tv series thumbnails in the report is a 
good idea however it would be best to make that a configurable option. This 
will allow users to control the size of the report. I've got ~500 movies ~65 tv 
series and the full collection export is pushing 25 printed pages. If you added 
images, it would likely increase by a factor of 5-10 depending on the size of 
the image.

Original comment by KeithEl...@gmail.com on 23 Apr 2012 at 6:23

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Actually the export should be XML - not HTML. This way all fields can be 
exported and the user can pick and chose what to display/use in their preffered 
report format. This will solve the issue with images as well since they will be 
simply links to the image files, not the actual images (huge size). Then people 
can parse the XML, produce report that they want, style it tge way tgey want 
and if the web server is somere else even automate copying of desired images to 
the server (or just zip everything). With standard XML export - everything else 
becomes possible.

Original comment by xander.a...@gmail.com on 23 Apr 2012 at 7:45