Displaying cover art when selecting/playing DVD disc images in GameEx

[Mangledmon]

Ack, long title

Hopefully this isn't a stupid question, so bear with me! One thing I haven't tried out in GameEx is playing DVDs via disc images (complete with all the usual navigation options - menus, skip scenes, ff/rw, etc) - is this possible? And if so, can you set it up so that the cover art flashes up on the screen while you're browsing DVDs disc images (kinda like how screenshots flash up when scrolling through games)?

The reason I ask is that I was talking to one of the girls at work yesterday, and was telling her about GameEx and how well the system works as a multimedia player when hooked up a PC to a TV for playing videos. She's in a somewhat unique situation - her 6 year-old son is non-verbal autistic, which means that he can't communicate by speaking, but can understand images and things like that. He's now old/big enough to grab DVDs off the shelf and plonk them in the DVD player, and they're finding that their collection of kids DVDs are getting really scratched. I mentioned how GameEx works, and as he is starting to learn how to use a computer, she thought it might be a good solution if she simply dumped their collection of DVDs onto the PC and thus saved all the wear and tear on the discs. The thing is, since he can't read and she wants to encourage his growing sense of independence he's showing with picking out DVDs for himself by looking at the covers, the system would need to be able to display cover art for each disc.

So, since I haven't messed around with playing DVDs through GameEx before, I was wondering if someone could shed some light on the topic? I'd love to be able to help set something up for them, and reckon this just might do the trick. Any help would be really appreciated.

Thanks.

-Mangledmon-

[shumardw]

Ack, long title

Hopefully this isn't a stupid question, so bear with me! One thing I haven't tried out in GameEx is playing DVDs via disc images (complete with all the usual navigation options - menus, skip scenes, ff/rw, etc) - is this possible? And if so, can you set it up so that the cover art flashes up on the screen while you're browsing DVDs disc images (kinda like how screenshots flash up when scrolling through games)?

The reason I ask is that I was talking to one of the girls at work yesterday, and was telling her about GameEx and how well the system works as a multimedia player when hooked up a PC to a TV for playing videos. She's in a somewhat unique situation - her 6 year-old son is non-verbal autistic, which means that he can't communicate by speaking, but can understand images and things like that. He's now old/big enough to grab DVDs off the shelf and plonk them in the DVD player, and they're finding that their collection of kids DVDs are getting really scratched. I mentioned how GameEx works, and as he is starting to learn how to use a computer, she thought it might be a good solution if she simply dumped their collection of DVDs onto the PC and thus saved all the wear and tear on the discs. The thing is, since he can't read and she wants to encourage his growing sense of independence he's showing with picking out DVDs for himself by looking at the covers, the system would need to be able to display cover art for each disc.

So, since I haven't messed around with playing DVDs through GameEx before, I was wondering if someone could shed some light on the topic? I'd love to be able to help set something up for them, and reckon this just might do the trick. Any help would be really appreciated.

Thanks.

-Mangledmon-

I know this is possible for videos. I use this for my kids also. I don't use the DVD feature though, so not sure if it will work for that. Just going from memory here, I think if you place the image in the DVD or Video folder of GameEx with say for example "BOXART_Lion King" it will show that image when you hover over the text listing in the browser. I am not sure how this might work for compleate DVD images though. Hope this helps a little.

[Mangledmon]

Thanks for that - I'll give it a go over the next week or so and see how it goes. If anyone else has any more tips they could offer, by all means post away in the interim!

-Mangledmon-

[shumardw]

This is just a quick screen shot on where I place my box art for videos. I convert all my movies to xvid to save space and make it easier for me to manage. I think the files need to be in jpeg format.