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Hello,

Recent holder of a premium account (taken for the year), I'm sure here, rather a fan of local storage.
I was able to recover all the videos I wanted and they can be found on my NAS (so far, no problem, I have already been using this config for a few years).

I access my videos in DLNA with a GearVR and a Note 8 (yes, ok, there are better, but as long as my smartphone works, I do not intend to change the config, when the time comes, I will take a Quest 2, see 3 if already available at that time, moreover, I recovered all the videos in 1920p (for all those available, if not less) in x265 (history still to save space).

I have, on my NAS, a plex server and on my note 8, I use Pigasus VR Media which is really an excellent video player (possibility of DLNA and SMB ).

Now here is my problem. Future owner of a Handy, so I will have to go through DeoVR.
So I installed it and took a look at how it works.
And that's where I noticed two little things that I find unfortunate and which I think should be improved / integrated into the software.

-Video thumbnails are not optimized.
Using the official thumbnails of the various production studios (in order to provide better visibility of which video it is), the or Pigasus offers an adaptive thumbnail (whether the thumbnail is horizontal or vertical, we can see it in full), DeoVR offers non-adaptive and left-centered thumbnails, so the thumbnails are not super visible (as you can see in the screenshots, sorry, it's not super well centered).
Pigasus : https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2021/04/2/1611633915-com-hanginghatstudios-pigasus-20210126-043208.jpg
https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2021/04/2/1611633915-com-hanginghatstudios-pigasus-20210126-043241.jpg
DeoVR (same videos) : https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2021/04/2/1611633915-com-deovr-gearvr-20210126-043457.jpg
https://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2021/04/2/1611633915-com-deovr-gearvr-20210126-043531.jpg

-It seems to be impossible to bookmark a link coming from DLNA (whereas on Pigasus it is possible), so I have to go all the way each time to reach the videos (well, that 's is not super long to do, but it's not super pleasant either).

So here it is, would it be possible to correct and add to these two points please?

Thank you in advance for your reply.

    Rakly3 Ok, i will try.

    SMB does not go through Plex, so I do not have access to the images I configured, but to the thumbnails of the videos (normal).

    Adaptive thumbnails are DLNA.

        Rakly3 That's it, I add them myself in plex.
        It takes quite a bit of time (at least at first, once that's all done, it's just maintenance for each new video), but yes.

        Edit : I try using 1440x720 in the Plex thumbnails setting, but that not resolved the problem.
        On the DeoVR forum, they replied that this will be reported to the dev.

            midorijin I see.

            XBVR might be able to help you with that, but we tend to break their app every now and then with updates.
            It's pretty easy if you don't change the filenames, otherwise it could be a lot of work.

                Rakly3 Sure enough, I didn't know about XBVR, but I rename my files (to make it cleaner and more readable) and unfortunately XBVR doesn't do all of the studios that I follow.

                Whatever happens, I have a job to do, so I might as well do it completely.

                But thank you, I will still keep it under the elbow to see its evolution.

                Edit : I just installed to see what it looks like, there is more studio than what is shown in the description, so I'll give it a try to see.

                  Rakly3 After a few tests, there is good, but unfortunately also bad (and the bad is still too important for the moment).

                  XBVR's DLNA is not yet compatible with DeoVR (plex's one works, fortunately).

                  Forced to go through the web address, we find it on a very nice clean interface, but the classification system is almost non-existent (realease date, favorites, view, not seen). No classification by folder, studio, alphabetical order ...

                  No classification by folder / studio, it is a huge lack for me who likes clear classification.

                  Hoping that these shortcomings will be quickly remedied.

                      midorijin The bad unfortunately lies with the app. But the app is also the only one supporting scripts. It's quite the conundrum.

                          Rakly3 In fact, I found, you have to go through the web interface to classify as you want and then go to the app interface, but that requires juggling between the two interfaces each time, it's really not the most practical I find.

                            4 days later

                            Rakly3 Well, after a few days of getting started (which was not easy), here is a little personal feedback from XBVR:

                            -The application supports the vast majority of studios.

                            -In spite of this, out of the 31 studios that I follow, 2 studio bug (TmwVRnet and VirtualRealPorn) and one is not supported (J & Mimmersion).

                            -The automation of data recovery from the various studios is the big positive point of this application (before, I recovered all the posters manually to integrate them into plex, long and tedious).

                            -Unfortunately, some scenes have disappeared at some studios (example: "Table tennis pussies" from "czechvr") and I have not yet tried to integrate them manually (fortunately, on all the scenes I own, this only concerns 'a small ten).

                            -The recognition of files is done manually, so it takes time, especially when we have a lot of them (around 2800 for me), and it takes even more time when the recognition is not done and we have to go on the studio website to match the URL.

                            -No classification in alphabetical order (a big black point for me, I hope this will be fixed quickly).

                            -Prefer the unofficial version (more up to date than the official version, but does not necessarily include the latest changes, too bad because at the time of writing this return, the correction for VirtualRealPorn has already been made on github).

                            -Finally, the very very big black point of the application, if you make the wrong correspondence, there is no way to make the modifications from the application, you have to put your hands in the database. Luckily I have some knowledge in the area, but a person who has none is really a big deal. To hope that this point will be corrected very quickly too.

                            But once all of that is set up and securely in place, it's much more fun to keep up to date than the simple manual method.

                            Edit: I had forgotten the possibility of creating groups of files as desired (favorite files, by studios ...).