Personal Video Database

Nostra, Thanks for the info about toggling the switch in IMDB to pull the photo.
Much appreciated!! as I can not pull from any amazon site, or IMPAwards either.
also please excuse the slight off-topic chat which follows (soz)

Jhackneyiv,
This is off topic and I will be brief.
Actually it should be posted within the RoksBox forums
I am assuming you are using the mongoose webserver.
This is my setup (JUST for the XML output, I do a different one for the "Web Pages(Index Movies))
I export my XML file to
Root_Drive\WWW\INDEX\VIDEOS

The export puts my poster pics into
ROOT_DRIVE\WWW\INDEX\VIDEOS\IMAGES

My mongoose.EXE file is located in
ROOT_DRIVE\WWW\(my mongoose exe file here)
index_files index.html,index.htm,index.cgi  (part of my mongoose ini file)
document_root Index       (part of my mongoose ini file)

Within RoksBox setup (going through ROKU screen)I have my videos.xml location, pointing to where I put the XML file, at Root_Drive\WWW\INDEX\VIDEOS

Most people start mongoose from the root drive location.
You just need to look at your ini file settings and you can change things around.
The generic setup is detailed pretty well on the RoksBox site
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Back on topic for PVD now.
Personally, within the (built in) PVD xml export, I do not need all of the information that is parsed to the videos.xml
RoksBox does not show or use a lot of information within there.
This is my XML file output I use to help with the xml file loading faster.

- - -  begin cut line - - -
%OPTIONS%
replace="&<->&amp;"
replace="<<->&lt;"
replace="><->&gt;"
filter="XML Files|*.xml"
encoding="UTF8"
imagepath="images\"
imagenameformat="%t%%ext%"
%OPTIONS%
%HEAD%
<xml>
<viddb>
<movies>{%value=200}</movies>
%HEAD%
<movie>
<num>{%value=num}</num>
<title>{%value=title}</title>
<origtitle>{%value=origtitle}</origtitle>
<year>{%value=year}</year>
<genre>{%value=genre}</genre>
<mpaa>{%value=mpaa}</mpaa>
<director>{%value=directors}</director>
<actors>{%value=actors}</actors>
<description>{%value=description}</description>
<resolution>{%value=resolution}</resolution>
<framerate>{%value=framerate}</framerate>
<path>{%value=path}</path>
<length>{%value=length}</length>
<poster>{%value=poster}</poster>
</movie>
%FOOT%
</viddb>
</xml>
%FOOT%
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My XML export file name is named "XML (RoksBox Movies)"
If you wish to make an XML output file specific for RoksBox, do this.
1.  Open a text editor
2.  Copy all the information between the cut lines above.
3.  Paste the information into your text editor
4a.  Save the file within your PVD Template directory
for me, using a windoze OS it is
C:\Program Files\Personal Video Database\Plugins\Templates

4b. Save the file as "XML (Roksbox Movies).ptm"  no quotes.
5.  Stop and Re-start PVD
6.  You will now see the option for the "XML (Roksbox Movies)" within your export window

One more thing
To help RoksBox load faster, keep the exported poster JPG files as small as possible.
You may have to redo them each time you make a new xml file.
As PVD will keep a copy of the poster file within the database and when you export the XML, it will rewrite the file again.
I use a program called "Photo Gadget Pro" to hi-light the new pics and reconvert them, takes about 30 seconds to do a couple hundred pics.

Hope this helps you some.