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ILoveMovies:
Hi,
I'm new, and finally glad I found a SW I find appropriate for my growing collection.
Anyhow,I do not understand some things, I would be very glad if you could answer these Qs.

1) I chose PVD because it seems there's an option to use Playlists as PLS or M3U. But I did not find a feature in PVD which lets me create them.
I need user defined Playlists because I stream the movies from HDD to my Playstation3, which really works fine using the java-program "PS3mediaserver", neat software that is. Sadly on the ps3 it can only show me my folder structure or playlist content (needs relative paths).
=>
So what I wanted to do is create my database entries and then create playlists by Genre, stored on toplevel of my movie files folder . How can that be done? Because otherwise, I really am stuck.


2) It seems I need admin rights for PVD to run properly.
Initially I wanted to run it as -portable because I liked the idea of all files being contained in one folder. Anyhow, this only worked with admin rights, as in both program files locations I use, the rights were too low for PVD to run. It always gave me an error code 32 (user has no permission to read/select TABLE..) when I tried to execute PVD.

Well I then used the normal viddb.exe which worked because it saves the DB in \my documents.
But sadly, as I just tried to config the plugins, the program reported the error "File access denied". Again, this works fine with admin rights, but I do not want to run it with admin rights. A program should work without.

Any Idea what I did wrong setting up the program or anything? Only thing I can come up with is allowing read/write in "Program files\pvd". I extracted the zip-version..


3) I already tried to import OFDB.de info for some movies which worked. If I need to add special information to that movie not provided by OFDB, like the IMDB-rating, how would I do that? Is it correct to just go on import -> get movie info from IMDB, and with default settings it only fills the fields which have not been filled by OFDB?

4) I tried to load covers from allcdcovers. But somehow it opened their webpage. How can they be imported like the amazon posters?

5) Is it possible to automaticaly download sth. like a short movie description like from AllCDCovers, the Back Cover information to the description or comment field? I find the IMDB/OFDB plot/description too detailled to read it before watching the movie.

6) How do I get the roles automatically added next to the actor?


I bet there are more qeustions to come ;)

Thank You very much, ILM

nostra:

--- Quote ---1) I chose PVD because it seems there's an option to use Playlists as PLS or M3U. But I did not find a feature in PVD which lets me create them.
I need user defined Playlists because I stream the movies from HDD to my Playstation3, which really works fine using the java-program "PS3mediaserver", neat software that is. Sadly on the ps3 it can only show me my folder structure or playlist content (needs relative paths).
=>
So what I wanted to do is create my database entries and then create playlists by Genre, stored on toplevel of my movie files folder . How can that be done? Because otherwise, I really am stuck.
--- End quote ---

You need to create an export template for this. [Instructions here]. Then filter movies, by each genre and export using your template.


--- Quote ---2) It seems I need admin rights for PVD to run properly.
Initially I wanted to run it as -portable because I liked the idea of all files being contained in one folder. Anyhow, this only worked with admin rights, as in both program files locations I use, the rights were too low for PVD to run. It always gave me an error code 32 (user has no permission to read/select TABLE..) when I tried to execute PVD.

Well I then used the normal viddb.exe which worked because it saves the DB in \my documents.
But sadly, as I just tried to config the plugins, the program reported the error "File access denied". Again, this works fine with admin rights, but I do not want to run it with admin rights. A program should work without.

Any Idea what I did wrong setting up the program or anything? Only thing I can come up with is allowing read/write in "Program files\pvd". I extracted the zip-version..
--- End quote ---

That's totally normal thing that you need admin rights in portable mode. All portable applications do as an app can't write to it's own folder by default and this is usually the default location where files are store in portable mode. So you have 2 possiblities:
1. Run as admin
2. Edit permissions for PVD folder, so that normal users can write to it


--- Quote ---3) I already tried to import OFDB.de info for some movies which worked. If I need to add special information to that movie not provided by OFDB, like the IMDB-rating, how would I do that? Is it correct to just go on import -> get movie info from IMDB, and with default settings it only fills the fields which have not been filled by OFDB?
--- End quote ---

Yes, you can run another plugin/script to get additional information or just add it manually by going into "edit mode" (Movies -> Edit)


--- Quote ---4) I tried to load covers from allcdcovers. But somehow it opened their webpage. How can they be imported like the amazon posters?
--- End quote ---

It is not possible as allcdcovers prevents direct download of images. I can do nothing about it :(


--- Quote ---5) Is it possible to automaticaly download sth. like a short movie description like from AllCDCovers, the Back Cover information to the description or comment field? I find the IMDB/OFDB plot/description too detailled to read it before watching the movie.
--- End quote ---

You can configure the IMDB plugin to download short description which is one or sentences.
1. Tools -> Preferences -> Plugins
2. Select imdb plugin
3. Configure
4. Uncheck "Download full plot summary"


--- Quote ---6) How do I get the roles automatically added next to the actor?
--- End quote ---

If this information is present it can be shown like this:
1. Tools -> Preferences -> Movies -> Information card
2. Check "Role" in "Show credits as"

ILoveMovies:
Danke!

I will try to do what you suggested.

Cheers ILM

nostra:
Keine Ursache ;)

ILoveMovies:
ok I got it almost done.
2 things about the playlist i don't get:

a) using {%value=path} gives the full path including file. How do I get the path w/o file?
b) how do I change the code to substract a predefined part of the path, so that it results in a relative path? [EDIT: ok  got that using replace]

like this:
 D:\Movies\Terminator\terminator.avi  => Movies\Terminator\

ah another thing. how can I prevent the assigned application to run the exported file?

[EDIT I now have 2 another issues:
c-I tried to export filtered by genre, but it always exports all files in the left list
d- every 2nd or 2rd time I try to export using my template, PVD hangs and will not come back before I kill the app. my template looks like this now:


%OPTIONS%
filter="M3U Files|*.m3u"
encoding="UTF8"
replace="G:\---== F I L M ==---\<->"
%OPTIONS%
%HEAD%#EXTM3U%HEAD%
#EXTINF:{%value=length},{%value=origtitle}
{%value=path}


]

great work!

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