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GMX:
first, thanks for the great application. it's probably the only app in this class, which supports unicode :)

but, i have a couple of questions/suggestions...

here's my scheme how i keep my movies (i'm shure, i'm not the only to keep them that way):

[en] Some Movie Title (2003).avi
[en] Some Movie Title (2003).jpg

[ru-en] Other Movie With Dual Audio Streams (2005).avi
[ru-en] Other Movie With Dual Audio Streams (2005).jpg

[ru] Original Movie Title in French _as listed in IMDB_ aka Translated Movie Title (1998).avi
[ru] Original Movie Title in French _as listed in IMDB_ aka Translated Movie Title (1998).jpg

AVI file here stands for the movie itself, and JPG is a dvd front cover or poster.
i'll keep them in a root of DVD media or HDD folder.

now the questions:

1) is it possible to pick the jpg _automatically_ (it's always the same as movie title, apart of ending in jpg, of course), when doing folder scan instead of downloading it from the net?

2) is it possible to parse the language tag in brackets [] to get them listed in database as language reference?

3) what about dual audio streams? how to list them? mediainfo.dll supports them, even pvd shows them after scanning file, but drops it imediately after saving the file and keep info only for the first stream.

4) is it possible to parse only original title (everything until word 'aka') and drop the translated title? because now it picks everything and of course fails to load info from net.

maybe some questions are already answered somewhere in a forum, but i couldn't locate the answers.

rick.ca:
Welcome to the forum.

I expect the Scan folder routine's ability to parse titles from filenames will be improved in the version 0.9.9, but it's not likely going to do the additional things you are looking for. You could use Excel to parse a directory listing of the movies into language, original title, (translated) title and year. Then import those into the appropriate fields.

No, the scan will not pick up the image file automatically, but I think this is a great idea. I save poster images exactly the same way you do. ;)

As for audio streams...


--- Quote from: nostra on August 06, 2008, 08:23:58 pm ---I am right now implementing a better audio stream support. Every audio stream will be saved like this:
stream1:codec, bitrate, channels, sampling rate, language, translation
stream2...
streamN.

--- End quote ---

GMX:
good to hear, that work is going on a multiple audio streams support. this is what most apps of this kind are missing - even the 'monster' extreme movie manager (at least when i tested it). :)

concerning the automatic image picking - that's what really important to me (and, probably, for others as well).

titles parsing is the least important feature, but it's really welcome. especially language tag, which (i think) shoudn't be a problem to implement, because PVD already checks for it (but removes it, instead of taking care of language field in database). concerning the original/translated title, it may be harder to do, but i'm not a coder so i don't know for shure :)

nostra:
A script can be written to load images automatically. You will need to modify the "import from text file" script for this.
If many users save images like this I can create the script myself, but only after 0.9.9 is released.

rick.ca:
I think a script—rather than building it into the scanner—is probably the better solution. Once the image files are created, the function is no longer needed, as PVD becomes the source of the images (i.e., they are downloaded using PVD, then saved as filename.jpg from PVD). Given this workflow, a more useful feature would be the ability to export posters as filename.jpg rather than the current title.jpg. That would allow those of us who use this file scheme to keep it up-to-date.

BTW, the Import from text file script "imports information from a text file that is located near video files with the same name and a .txt extension." Is it really applicable to this situation, or are you just saying it could be a starting point for creating a script that is?

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