Personal Video Database
English => Support => Topic started by: Nautilus2067 on May 15, 2013, 03:47:56 pm
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When I select the movie folder for Import and start importing the movies, PVD automatically loads all pictures in the movie folder as covers. Is there a possibility to prevent this? I have written a script that will import only the relevant pictures later on and divides them in posters and screenshots.
Thanks,
Oliver
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No, but I plan to add such possibility as a hidden option
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That would be great.
By the way I really appreciate your efforts. I am using MediaPortal and will change from MovingPictures to myFilms. Ant Movie Catalog is recommended but compared to PVD a lot of features are missing. Keep up the good work!
Currently I am working on scripts to read and write MovPicNFO .nfo files for the communicaton with the MovingPicutres plugin of MediaPortal. Later on I will provide a full functioning interface for myFilms to read and write directly to the AMC database.
Regards,
Oliver
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In case you did not know: there is an export plugin for the standard MediaPortal database that works pretty good for me.
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Yep, I know, thanks anyway. I tried long time ago but results were not satisfying. Special characters made problems. I decided to use MovingPictures and that works well.
Did you have time to look at my other messages?
Regards,
Oliver
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First, thank you nostra for the best movie database.
I have the same issue as Nautilus. PVD 1.0+ imports all files as cover art. I created a script to import from Media Browser movie.xml files. Folder.jpg is imported as the cover and backdrops are imported as screenshots. With PVD 1.0+, I have to manually delete backdrops automatically imported as covers. A preference check box to shut off automatic import of JPEGs in the folder with the movie file would be appreciated.
Another issue with scripts scanning local network files, is that a UNC path like
\\media1\movies\somemovie(2010)\movie.xml
will not work. The server folder has to be mapped to a drive letter like this
S:\somemovie (2010)\movie.xml
If the script function GetDownloadURL returns a UNC path, "http://" is appended to the beginning and the final path will be like this:
http://\\media1\movies\somemovie(2010)\movie.xml
"http://" could be appended by script code if required.
Media Browser import script attached for anyone that wants it.
Regards,
Joel
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