Thanks man .. will make the process faster ... and less prone to stupid errors <sigh>

OK, makes sense to remove the directors, added here: http://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view.php?id=12843

And I have to step back and profusely apologize now .. stupid me only saw directors and many starting with A ... not once did i see [All] in there until Ludek mentioned it. As Bugs Bunny would say about Marvin the Martian .. what a maroon ..

Having said that .. and again .. doh!! .. why on earth would you put directors there. My point is still valid. I have several hunderd (almost 1K) sci fi .. but imagine out of several thousand DRAMA how many directors there are .. and who would remember that Bert I. Gordon did this or that David DeBartolome did that ... AND the amount of time to load those ..

But again .. my credibility has fallen so I will .. err .. sheepishly back out of this <sigh>

Over DLNA saving 1 step is a huge improvement. It's less relevant for local browsing, but I doubt many find Director useful as sub-node for Genre (and the few who do could use Magic Nodes to achieve this).

Maybe I am missing something, but I probably don't understand what the issue is. User can view _all_ the tracks of the genre by navigating Video -> Genres -> [Genre1] -> [All]

How removing Director sub-node from Genre helps? Is it about to save one navigation step?

Sorry to have been so .. err .. insistent. My guess is that you are right. I just never understand why something like this which is KNOWN just langishes with out correction. Thanks very much for you reply and restraint <G>

Yes, exactly. MagicNodes is the workaround as you can create your own navigation structure and it works over DLNA too.

I don't know why it was designed like that. My assumption is that it comes from Genre for music files where Artist is the sub-node. So it may have been an oversight that's never been rectified.

SO .. what you are saying is someone made the great Idea that you have to know the director of every movie you want to watch .. really !!!!
Not that anyone there cares but this is pushing the buttons a little too much.

Over DLNA you get tree nodes before you get to a filelist. So you will need to open a Director node to see associated movies. That works as expected here. However Genre node shouldn't have Director as subnode in the first place as for Movies and TV Shows few will know the Director.

What does this have to do with tree nodes or magic notes or ...
DLNA select genre creates director list only .

If this has been so long standing .. .though it seems different to me .. why hasn't it been fixed. I don't want to change tree nodes .. i want mm to fix the data returned.

I read that you thought it had changed. No, as you can see this a long standing request.

I think this has been this way for a long time ... just getting to reporting/checking on it.
I'll create a support ticket and report back.

Thanks for verifying .. .

I can confirm this in MMW. I don't know if it has changed as I haven't used the MMW DLNA server for video for a long time.

Anyone else seeing this happen??

On my players (tested just now on one samsung br and one sony br) the following happens ..
From starting menu select Video
then select genre
then select a genre (action)
I get a list of Directors ... this is ... er ... nice but very un-useful <G>
How can I get a list of Titles ..