Yep, you got it - I just copied the pattern.  

To be honest, I don't like it much either.  My wish is that there was a flag in the settings called "include_movies" or something like that *independent* of whether or not the user has ffmpeg.  This would completely eliminate the need for the noffmpeg module, which a) is a slight hack and b) fills users' databases with bad data (!!!), specifically making width and height 320x240.  My auto-sizing-finding mod in the movieplayer makes this totally unnecessary.  Of course, this is a discussion for another revision - for now, I'm copying the pattern.