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Movie posters in dolphin as icon for movies
fetched from themoviedb.org or imdb
maybe combine it with the preview option in dolphin or maybe as an add-on

might need a small movie strip overlay in very bottom right so you know its a movie and wont be mistaken for a photo

How would dolphin identify a movie?

Perhaps using nepomuk to add some metadata we could manually choose it as a movie?

Well, I don't think that would be convenient - if the user needs to tell us something is a film, and which film it is, it could also just set the folder icon to the cover art.

The idea (for me) sounds nice, but it can't really be implemented for the lack of info. There are usually no id3 tags or similar in the video files.

For the time being, it may be able to parse the filename and just do a blind search for it on IMDB. If it finds something, it'll display it. If not, no harm done.

Torrented movies follow a very common pattern which can be canonicalised with regex.

Also, here is an alternative: search for `Click[2006]DvDrip[Eng]-aXXo movie "http://www.imdb.com/title/"` on Google's I'm Feeling Lucky, then follow the first link to imdb in the source of that page. It'll get it right.

I tested this last method with
Click[2006]DvDrip[Eng]-aXXo
elephantsdream-1024-mpeg4-su-ac3
sintel-2048-surround movie
Monty Python The Holy Grail - Title 01 (English MPEG1 Layer III 2Ch)
Big.Fish.Dvdrip.Swesub.XviD-strunt ( CD.02 )

It got it right every single time. I think it's a really good way to find the movie.

audio tracks can be identified by a digital fingerprint, the same technique could be utilised to identify a movie. however, i don't know if there's a free db to be queried or an agreed upon algorithm.

If anybody is still interested in this brainstorm I have implemented a thumbnailer that fetches movie covers from themoviedb.org
http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=157543

Hope you like it!