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[SOLVED] How are movies stored on Hard drive??
patch:
--- Quote from: buah on June 13, 2010, 04:07:05 pm ---I still do not play movies from PVD, because I earlier set up certain playlists ("American & Europian Classics", "Contemporary Asian", etc...). I tried once to play a movie by playing its playlist, but PVD purged playlist and played that movie. Till today I didn't exam this option enough to use it, although I intend to.
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This explains our different approaches.
If you use PVD to find an index which is then manually used to find the movie then it makes perfect sense to display it prominently. Functionally there being no real difference between doing the look up on a shelf or on a computers filing system.
Now you are putting your movies on a computer accessible hard disk I suspect you would benefit from getting PVD to doing the look up.
My understanding of play lists is:
If your movie is on a single file-> PVD passes the file reference (absolute path with file name) directly to your windows default player for that file type.
If your movie spans more than one file (as defined by what is stored in the path variable) -> PVD creates a temporary play list containing all the absolute references in the path field and passes that to the windows default play list player.
So to play a movie contained on one file you need to:
1) Set the windows file association for that file type (so when you double click on the movie in windows explorer it plays).
2) Ensure the path variable is set correctly for the movie. This should be done automatically if you use PVD file scanner to add movies on your hard disk. If you access the movies from multiple computers you may need to set up the path mapping to convert between local and network addresses.
To play a movie on more than one file (multiple file references are stored in the path variable) you need to
1) Set up the file association between the play list type PVD is configured to use.
2) Ensure the path variable is set correctly for the movie (same as above).
Edit added content to wiki
buah:
Thanks for the reply patch and adding content to wiki.
--- Quote ---If you use PVD to find an index which is then manually used to find the movie then it makes perfect sense to display it prominently. Functionally there being no real difference between doing the look up on a shelf or on a computers filing system.
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I think that, except automatic playing, any other action has to be taken "manually" - outside of PVD, i.e. renaming, copying, burning, moving, deleting, etc.
Maybe it would be a good idea for PVD to has further options:
- Open containing folder.
- Creating playlists.
- If not creating, than possiblity to assign a path of a predetermined playlists to a movie.
- Not purging predetermined playlists made outside of it.
What do you think about it?
patch:
--- Quote from: buah on June 14, 2010, 08:44:54 am ---Maybe it would be a good idea for PVD to has further options:
- Open containing folder.
- Creating playlists.
- If not creating, than possiblity to assign a path of a predetermined playlists to a movie.
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It does
Right click on a movie in the left hand list in PVD, then select "Open containing folder" from the menu.
It also creates the required play list when you play a multi-file movie containing the paths to the individual component files (but I'm not sure if that is what you meant).
rick.ca:
--- Quote ---Maybe it would be a good idea for PVD to has further options:
- Open containing folder.
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Already exists.
--- Quote ---- Creating playlists.
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For what purpose?
--- Quote ---- If not creating, than possiblity to assign a path of a predetermined playlists to a movie.
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Already possible.
--- Quote ---- Not purging predetermined playlists made outside of it.
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How, exactly, does PVD "purge" a playlist?
buah:
--- Quote ---It does
Right click on a movie in the left hand list in PVD, then select "Open containing folder" from the menu.
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--- Quote ---Already exists.
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Wow! Thank you both, especially to you patch for quick reference where the option was! That was a clear example of how I was, and I am a slave of habits and routine. I totally overlooked this great option. On the other hand, PVD has so many features and possibilities, so 5 months of using it simply wasn't enough to learn them all, wasn't it?
--- Quote ---It also creates the required play list when you play a multi-file movie containing the paths to the individual component files (but I'm not sure if that is what you meant).
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I meant, playlist consisted of different movies in different folders, not of multiple files of a movie.
--- Quote ---For what purpose?
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In purpose to add different movies to playlist from within PVD in order to play whole playlist directly from PVD? It's not handy for me to load different playilsts from within the player, then to look which movie from it to watch.
--- Quote ---Already possible.
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Still didn't discover how to play a playlist consisted of diferent movies in different folders from within PVD?
--- Quote ---How, exactly, does PVD "purge" a playlist?
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For example, I have a movie Thirst (Bakjwi), that I set it to belong to a playlist "Contemporary Korean and Asian Movies" (custom made field, don't know how to do it other way). I also have "Contemporary Korean and Asian Movies.asx" file stored on my computer and it is loade in my GOM Player whenever I open it. When I click "play" in PVD, that unloads (purge) playlist (asx file) in my GOM player, and now in playlist is only Thirst. In PVD Preferences I set asx as a playlist type to use when playing multiple video files.
Patch,
I'll still rely on IDs, because they can tell you a lot of things, by not using filters and different searches (how many of them you have, which is more recently added, on which external HDD on a shelf they are, etc...)
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