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Support / Specifying a networked video file location/replacing existing locations with it.

« on: March 20, 2011, 02:30:52 pm »

I don't remember if this is a new feature which became supported somewhere along the line of PVD releases, but I've just noticed that PVD appears to allow to browsing to/specification of networked locations for stored video files. A quick test suggests it works both locally and from a remote laptop. Addresses seem to subscribe to the format '\\(PC name)\(Shared Drive Letter)\(Path)\Filename.wmv'.

Assuming this is as it appears to be, and now means that copies of PVD on my laptop etc will successfully find & play films stored on a shared drive on my desktop by clicking PVD's play button, is there any simple way to replace all previous references to the local PC drive with a shared/networked one?

Support / Re: Any practical limit on PVD database size?

« on: November 23, 2009, 07:45:32 pm »

Thanks for the reply. I am rather stunned at the size of your database. Whilst mine has grown to 600Mb with perhaps rather rash inclusion of too many screen shots, it has just a basic 300 or so movies so far, with nothing 'clever' going on in the way you describe.

But I suppose to paraphrase your answer, slowness is the worst problem I can expect to face, rather than something worrying like corruption? As an aside, is there any practical difference between backups created via PVD's menu (think they have .old. in the name?), and traditional backups of the database held elsewhere?

Support / Any practical limit on PVD database size?

« on: November 22, 2009, 05:02:47 pm »

I'm very impressed with PVD, so impressed in fact that my database file is now 600Mb in size, mostly due to screenshots saved within it.

It will no doubt keep growing too. Is there any point (by way of number of movies, or filesize) at which I should start to fear problems of any kind with it? And yes, I do keep a backup copy.