Ripped DVD's In Windows Media Center

Windows Media Center is great but it doesn’t work well with burnt DVD’s.... Until Now!!! Today’s post is a review of a freeware application called “My Movies 3” which is available to download for free from mymovies.dk My Movies 3 is an application which integrates with Windows Media Center (Windows 7, Vista, and XP media center edition).

Once installed you can then play ripped DVD’s within Windows Media Center, and better yet the program will automatically download the Album art for your DVD’s including both the front and back covers. Also, the program automatically grabs the synopsis, genre, rating, and actor list for every movie in your collection. The program has several different cover flow modes to choose from depending on how you’d like your virtual DVD collection to be displayed. You can also tweak several different settings to personalize exactly how much information you want to view about each movie in your DVD library.

Sample Cover Flow: Screen Shot

The program is 100% free, but there are some advanced features such as the ability to rip movies directly from Windows Media Center, additional cover flow views, and fan art, that require a certain number of “points” to unlock. Points are gained either by adding your own information about DVD’s to the site or by donating to the site.

Overall I’d give this a program a 10 out of 10. It’s relatively light on system resources (aka it won’t slow down your pc). It integrates seamlessly with Windows Media Center. It’s simple and fun to use. And finally you can’t beat the price… FREE!!!