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Support / Re: Scan folders/file scanner confusion
« on: October 29, 2008, 09:39:36 pm »The biggest risk to my data is ME!"
Yep, I agree. Was just a bit annoyed with myself last night. Oh well, today is another day.
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The biggest risk to my data is ME!"
Sounds like sensible prioritisation to me. I'm looking forward to seeing 0.9.9 alsoThis is frustrating.
1. Unattended Import - I guess this would only really be useful for people such as myself who are new to this app and have quite a few movies to import. But it would be great if it could just scan a folder and automatically select the best match. Then I could go back through and double check at my convenience, rather than have to keep clicking ok all the time. For people who are importing a number of new movies to an existing database perhaps there could be a field to note that the data was unconfirmed.Go to Tools-> Preferences-> Plugins
2. More info in message windows when importing (or ability to see the main window) - as I write this I am importing movies (as I said above) and it is a bit of a pain that I can't see the file that the found info refers to. Some are quite obvious, but others - well who knows?? There seems to be no way of getting back to the main window while it is scanning folders/downloading data. This means that any I'm not sure about I need to skip and hopefully there is someway of downloading info for them individually (I'm assuming there is).After choosing "Scan folders for new movies / changed file paths"
I have no problem with writing a script for you
but only after 0.9.9...
Plugin templates seam more relevant to me. The closest I could find is the "Web Pages(Index&Movies)" template which produces one (html) file per movie.
I'm guessing what is need is to:
1) Set "recordfilename" to an absolute address based on "File Path" rather than an address relative to the index file. Not sure how to handle multiple entries in path, probably need to process them the same as PVD does when grouping files, or txtinfo_en.psf http://www.videodb.info/forum_en/index.php?topic=904.0 does in function GetDownloadURL : String; Had a go at the latter but couldn't get it working
Try these for now.
For the patсh's problem: it is already possible to write a script that would generate a txt file with any information needed for each movie placing it near video file. Then a script like this http://www.videodb.info/forum_en/index.php?topic=904.0 could be used to retrieve the information from txt files.
a script like this http://www.videodb.info/forum_en/index.php?topic=904.0 could be used to retrieve the information from txt files.
For the patсh's problem: it is already possible to write a script that would generate a txt file with any information needed for each movie placing it near video file. Then a script like this http://www.videodb.info/forum_en/index.php?topic=904.0 could be used to retrieve the information from txt files.
Quote- The alphabetical movie list without sorting small and capital letter. Now Small letter are sorted behind capital letter.
I do not have influence on sorting as it is done by the database engine - Firebird.
Never heard of this... What does EAG stand for? Any useful links for explaining what this is?I assumed it was a typo for Tag ie http://www.videodb.info/forum_en/index.php?topic=870.20
My housemate and i share a movie collection and would like to maintain it without having to keep exporting and importing to each other's installations of PVD.
QuoteI do not think movie file tagging is widely used or standardised yet...That seems to be the case. I just spent hours trying to get image tag information into MC—it seems hopeless. I recall abcAVI Tag Editor saves IMDb information in AVI's,
I had assumed that it was proposed a server version on PVD would need to be run on the file server and client versions run on other computers or accounts. For this to work I needQuoteMaster databases worry me...
I was assuming this would be a one-time thing—just for getting started. I meant "master" only in the sense it would include all movies on the server, and users would start their own database using a copy of it.
QuoteYes the files would need to be copied together if movie files were moved, but I already do that with subtitled movies.
I have no doubt you can do it—you're the one running an industrial network in your home! Other users don't where or how there files are stored. For them, separate files increases the risk of things going wrong.
One question: would it not be much better and easier if you install a database server on your Server PC and have a single PVD database on the server as well that is accessed by all the users in the network.A server version would definately help with some but not all of what I'm trying to acheive.
What about other programs using the same information? Being able to get my PVD information into MC would be great, for example, but what would PVD do when MC wrote its version of the information back to the tags?
I suppose each user would want to maintain their own database, but based on the same store of movies on the server. Nevertheless, would it not make sense to built a "master" database of all movies on the server? Then each user could start with a copy of that, and delete the movies they're not interested in.
I thought ID3 was for music onlyAgree
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saving the information in the movie files removes the risk of the files getting separated.
Could you describe your tasks and working environment more precisely, so I can imagine what changes need to be done.
PVD identifies CD1..CDN and Title1..TitleNThen to ensure sequels to movies are treated as separate movies I should ensure my titles do not inadvertently follow this format, for example I should use
Movies with a sample file / trailer eg "Shrek - sample.avi", "Shrek.avi" are assumed to be two separate movies.
Such files are not supported yet. I'll add this to my TODO list.A similar issue occurs with movies I have two copies of (high and low resolution versions).
Has writing cataloguing data back to the movie files been considered, in a similar manner to ID3 tags are used for mp3 files.
You can use export function to create such text files. Naming video files according to data from database is planned for future.The function I'm trying to achieve is 100% rescan accuracy of "Scan for new movies/changed paths..." allowing fully automated rescan. I suspect to get the graphic images to rescan correctly I many need more than a text file but I suppose if it contained the Amazon link a text file would do.
I admit I am new to the program, but I am at a loss how to use the Scan folder/file function properly.
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In the case of Movies with more than one file