Video Browser (Media Center Plugin)
If you're like me, navigating video in Windows Media Center can be painful. The titles are small, the images are more often than not blank, or worse – get dropped so WMC regenerates every time you go into the folder. On the flip side, navigating music is easy because of the album art and metadata.
Enter Sam Saffron's Video Browser. Video Browser is a MCML plugin (so it is compatible with Media Center on the XBox 360), which uses MyMovie's XML for metadata, so if you already use MyMovie for metadata that's perfectly usable, but I've found Salami's Movie Organizer to be the easiest to use to fetch metadata for movies. This makes Media Center have even more WAF (Wife Approval Factor)! Apart from a poster-view of all your videos, it also brings up meta data (such as actors, rating, running time, director, year of release and a blurb!), making it easier to decide what to watch.
Video Browser also handles TV episodes/seasons, however the only way to get metadata for it so far is with Sam's Ruby TV scraper, which while it works is sucky if you don't want to install Ruby.