Password protect folders, or MPAA rating?

[CANightHawk]

Quick question - how does one assign an MPAA rating to a video (be it recorded show, AVI, MP4, MPEG2, FLV etc) so that my kids can watch certain videos or shows but not others?

Is there a plugin or a hidden option somewhere to password protect a folder?

My current workaround I found is to use the Search menu to "browse the file system" and play certain shows that way but it would be nicer to just have the parental controls on and use MPAA rating to stop certain items from being seen by my kids.

Thanks all

[CANightHawk]

Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

[technazz]

Originally Posted by CANightHawk

Quick question - how does one assign an MPAA rating to a video (be it recorded show, AVI, MP4, MPEG2, FLV etc) so that my kids can watch certain videos or shows but not others?

Is there a plugin or a hidden option somewhere to password protect a folder?

My current workaround I found is to use the Search menu to "browse the file system" and play certain shows that way but it would be nicer to just have the parental controls on and use MPAA rating to stop certain items from being seen by my kids.

Thanks all

I don't think there is as of right now until somebody imliments Dynamic Menus. Thats the only way that I know how to password protect folders un V6.

Technazz

[CANightHawk]

Thanks for the reply .. I was actually referring to version 7 beta 09, if there was a plugin or a setting I was overlooking.

Are the MPAA ratings set in the metadata somewhere? Is THAT something I can manually adjust and/or modify?

[Neo]

It is possible to edit "Advisories" via the webserver (Edit Show Info). I suppose that is what you are looking for. I have not tested it myself.

[CANightHawk]

That's the concept, yes, thank you.

BUT -- I need to edit over 100+ of these (metadata for AVI's), and over time likely more

Is there a batch process I can run? Even in the command line, separate from SageTV? I am using nielm's webserver.

[Comitizer]

I'm pretty sure BMT will do this for you. My movies have ratings and BMT is doing the scraping.

[CANightHawk]

Well I was talking also about video clips, ripped AVI's, "cams", etc. all of which don't have entries in the IMDB.

Basically -- is there a script, a batch file, web config plugin, or whatnot, which will allow me to change the ratings on a group of files (or even a whole folder full of files) that will then be able to be filtered or blocked by my Parental settings?

I understand the usefulness of the Parental settings, but how to mass-assign ratings to video files was my original [and possibly convoluted] question.

[stlbearboy]

As was said previously, there is no way of doing this in the V7 UI until someone implements dynamic menus for V7. You could install SageMC on V7 and use the dynamic menu in that until it is ported using the stock UI.