The Movies & TV app works with Narrator, a built-in screen reader that reads text on your screen aloud and describes events, so you can use your PC with partial or no vision. There are also keyboard shortcuts to help you do common actions.
Press the Windows logo key + Ctrl + Enter to start Narrator. Press these keys again to stop Narrator. On many keyboards, the Windows logo key is located on the bottom row of keys, to the left or right of the Alt key.
The Movies & TV app is available for free on the Microsoft Store. To download the app, press the Tab key until you hear "Search," then enter Movies & TV into the Search field, and press Enter. When the search has returned suggestions, press the down arrow key until you hear "Movies & TV, app," and press Enter to go to the app page. Press the Tab key until you hear "Download," and press Enter.
Navigation for main app areas. There are three main app areas: The first is Explore, where you can shop for new movies and TV shows to buy or rent from the Microsoft Store; second is Purchases, a place to find movies or TV shows you've already bought or rented; third is Personal, which allows you to browse personal videos you've stored on your device.
For example, to get to the TV area within Explore, press the Tab key or Shift + Tab to move through the app until you arrive at the Navigation for main app areas, then press the right or left arrow key until you reach Explore, press Enter, then press the Tab key until you reach the TV area.
To start browsing titles in the selected area, press Enter, and then use the arrow keys to move between content titles. Use the Tab key to move to other actions within the gallery, such as Show all, which opens the Microsoft Store.
Press the Tab key or Shift + Tab to navigate to the Search box, and then type the name of the movie or TV show you want and press Enter to search. Search results for videos you already own or have rented will be displayed first. To see results for content that you can rent or buy from the Microsoft Store, press Shift + Tab and then Enter. Then use the arrow keys to browse through the search results.
For a TV series that you own, focus is on the Play button for the first episode in the series, or the first episode that you have not watched yet. If you'd like a different episode, use the Tab key to move to the Episodes list, and then use the down arrow key to move to the episode you want. Then press the Tab key to get to the Play button, and press Enter.
For a movie or TV show that you have to buy or rent first, pressing Enter opens that title in the Microsoft Store. Follow the instructions to buy or rent it. When you complete the transaction, the Buy or Rent button will change to Play or Owned. Make sure that a button is selected and press Enter to switch the focus back to the Movies & TV app. If necessary, use the Tab key to move to the Play button, and then press Enter.
To change audio or closed caption options, starting at the Play or Pause button, press Shift + Tab twice to get to Show menu for subtitles and audio, then press Enter. Use the arrow keys and Enter to choose the options you want.
The Movies & TV app is available for free on the Microsoft Store. To download the app, press the Tab key until you hear "Search," then press Enter and enter Movies & TV into the Search field. Then press the down arrow key until you hear "Movies & TV, app," and press Enter to go to the app page. Press the Tab key until you hear "Download," and press Enter.
For example, to get to the TV area within Explore, press Tab or Shift + Tab to move through the app until you arrive at the Navigation for main app areas, then press the right or left arrow key until you reach Explore, press Enter, then press the Tab key until you reach the TV area.
Movie Explorer is a cinema movie file manager that scans all your local and network drives for MKV, M4V, MP4 and other movie files and saves them in a catalog for off line browsing and searching. The app shows metadata and artwork of your files, movies and TV shows, plus all related actors, directors, producers and all other crew members.
Movies files with 3D video are automatically recognised as such when they have the correct metadata. To help the indentification for incorrect tagged files, you should add "SBS" to the filename, after the year indicator:
It's allowed to use dots, spaces or underscores between all elements of the pattern. Furthermore, it's allowed to have additional information elements between the episode number and the file extension. These additional elements are ignored during file scanning. Some examples:
The current scan engine uses internally a slightly more forgiving naming convention as described above. So if you have files that don't fully comply, then give it a try first, before you start changing the file names.
When you use version 1.8.4 or newer, you can enable option Use folder name for TV show matching in the Files section of the Movie Explorer Preferences. When enabled, the folder name of TV show files will be used to extract the TV show title. When you use this option, the individual file names are only used to extract the season and episode, and must therefore still implement the season/episode pattern described above. The rest of the filename is not relevant anymore.
If you add, remove or rename movie and TV show files you can update the catalog by simply performing a refresh of the files location. Select the location that you want to update in the sidebar on the left and hit the refresh button in the toolbar, or choose Location > Refresh in the menu. New files will automatically be added to the catalog, deleted files will be removed from the catalog together with their associated movies data.
You can add Blu-rays, 3D Blu-rays, 4K Ultra HD discs, DVD's and HD DVD's to the catalog by scanning their barcodes. This can be done using the FaceTime camera or external web camera, by using an external USB barcode scanner, or by entering the barcodes manually.
Movie Explorer Pro supports indexing DVD and Blu-ray disc copies saved to hard-drive. Because there are multiple ways to save disc copies to a hard-drive, there are some options in Movie Explorer Pro to fine-tune what you want to index and what not. In the Location Preferences of the Movie Explorer Pro Preferences, you'll find the following options:
Before you start importing metadata from iTunes, make sure you are logged in to the Apple TV app in macOS 10.15 or iTunes when using macOS 10.14 or older. Once you see you purchased movies and TV shows in Apple TV or iTunes, you should be able to import the metadata in Movie Explorer Pro.
When indexing new media files or scanning new discs, Movie Explorer also scans the certificate (content rating) for each detected movie or TV show. The default region used for retrieving certification info is United States. This can be easily changed to your own region or any other supported region.
To see an overview of all certificates available in the configured regions, select Window > Certification Overview in the menu. This overview also shows the number of movies and TV shows that are assigned to each available certificate.
Movie Explorer scans for external subtitles while scanning your media files when setting Index external subtitle files is enabled. This results in displaying all external subtitle files for each movie or TV show. Together with the standard scan engine, you will see both embedded and external subtitles for each media file.
When there is not enough space to display all language flags, a overflow icon with an ellipsis character is being used. When you hover over it with the mouse, a tooltip will be displayed, showing all remaining subtitle languages.
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