Personal Video Database
English => Talk => Topic started by: ALADProd on January 20, 2010, 01:35:15 am
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Just curious how much data people have in their database. I'm quite sure that I'm in the low end myself.
I've got 713 movies and 26134 people in mine. :)
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Maybe add size as well.
Mine has 632 movies
0 people (they can't act anyway - hehe)
64 Megabytes
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Well, that's a rather flaccid little thing, CAD. ;D
Mine has 1,714 visible movies; all have posters and 183 have screen shots (mostly 4 or 8 each)
216,911 invisible movies (from filmographies)
25,667 people, of which 5,717 have a photo
588 Megabytes
8) I win! ;)
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Oh it's not about size...it's how you use it...
Consider 1,000 movies is about 1,500 hours viewing. If you have a smaller number, you have more chance to view them !!
2,874 movies. Comedy / Drama / Horror / Thriller account for 90% of my titles.
51,898 people. I had more, but did a database cleanup.
8,387 photos. Currently uploading more. Hoping for 60% coverage of my database, someday.
310 mb. I run a tidy ship :) Actually, I have to reload all my posters after my 'clean-up'... >:(
Movies I've actually sat down and watched start to end...maybe 25%. There's a good argument for a smaller database. Actually, I used to keep all the movies I downloaded (no matter how bad) so I wouldn't re-download them. Now I have PVD and can delete them instead...
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Database size at the moment: 301MB
Movies
In Collection: 5332
Visible: 5332
Invisible: 0 (this could indicate I didn't download online data)
Posters: 241
Covers: 121
Screenshots: 176
People
Visible: 74535 (This could indicate I tested downloading data)
Invisible: 0
Photos: 0
Strongly determined this time to complete all movies and preferred people.
8) I win! ;)
who laughs last, laughs the sweetest! ;)
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Database size: 640 Mb
Movies: 4915 visible (I don't win but that means i am more quality selective ;D)
Posters: 4470
People: 192 visible and 120295 invisible (i'm not interested in people ;))
Photos: 0
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(I don't win but that means i am more quality selective ;D)
When someone says to me that he only listens to good music, I tell him I never heard of anyone who claimed to listened to bad music ;D
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ca 230MB
movies: 2494
8)
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1774 films so far, with another 5 waiting to be entered, and at least another 8 in the postal system :)
2362 people in database.
326776 KB whatever that means?
Did I ever tell you I love watching films. ::)
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1335 movies, 3155 people, 507 MB... and counting. ;D
Aimhere
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1335 movies, 3155 people, 507 MB... and counting. ;D
Aimhere
Wow, 507MB for 4490 entries? How many images?
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1096 movies and 303 people in my 391 Mb database. All movies with posters (often multiple) and 584 movies with 3-6 screenshots, all people with a photo.
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1096 movies and 303 people in my 391 Mb database. All movies with posters (often multiple) and 584 movies with 3-6 screenshots, all people with a photo.
I have only started to use the poster and screenshot facility recently, wish I had started it at the beginning :(
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751 MB
1432 movies
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Where do you get your pictures and posters from Nostra, as most sites I find do not allow you to copy the poster/pictures?
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I use the Kinopoisk.ru (they have a pretty good selection of posters there) script for posters. Screenshots are created automatically from the video file.
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Ok, I have used them now Nostra, overcame the language problem, and found the pictures of the actors handy, so then I found out about the poster section using the last film which I saw which I fell in love with called "Welcome To Dongmakgol", the trouble is that the files are so small, (12kb) which renders them useless as when required they come out the size of a UK postage stamp?
I did manage to get some pretty decent ones from the main site, sadly this is no good for older films. The hunt is still on :)
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1335 movies, 3155 people, 507 MB... and counting. ;D
Aimhere
Wow, 507MB for 4490 entries? How many images?
Lots. ;D
Posters (box art, actually) for most movies, screenshots for many, and at least one photo for every person. It adds up!
Aimhere
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Seeing as I've been entering data over the course of about 5 or 6 months, you'd think I'd be further along -- but I have only entered a fraction of my movies into the database so far. (I've done most of the "easy" work -- those titles which exist as files, rather than DVDs or VHS. Yes, videotape. I'm old school. ;D )
Right now, PVD shows I have 1017 movies, but that's not entirely accurate, since a not-insignificant number of those entries are TV series. Every entry in my database (including each TV episode) has a poster and several screenshots (whew, that's the part that took the most time, over the past several months). It shows I have 48,142 people in the Db. Current size of my database is 883MB.
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Up to 1759 movies, 3806 people, 700MB.
Still have a ton of movies to enter. Will it ever end??? :P
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I'm curious...
With this number of people, you're obviously not using the option to Show people added from movie credits. They're initially being added as invisible records, then you're doing something to make the ones you're interested in visible. With 1,759 movies, there's likely in the order of 30,000 people in your database—many more if you're not restricting the number downloaded (e.g., actors from main page only).
So I'm wondering if you have any routine for making the people you're interested in visible and downloading their information. I understand this might be simply clicking on people in Movie view if and when you're interested in them. This will make the one selected visible, and switch you to People view where it would only take a few seconds (hopefully) to download their information. In other words, they could be added on an "as needed" basis. On the other hand, you might use some systematic approach, like adding the director and "starring" actors each time you add a movie.
I use the other approach of using the option to Show people added from movie credits, and then regularly downloading information for all the people added since my last update. I'd like to eventually provide a description of both alternatives and their pros and cons in the Help Documentation. And you might convince me I should switch to your method. I find the people I'm really interested in tend to get lost in a sea of 33,000 people. :-\
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I am not interested in every single actor and like you said the movie collection is too big to have all actors imported, so I do just that:
I understand this might be simply clicking on people in Movie view if and when you're interested in them. This will make the one selected visible, and switch you to People view where it would only take a few seconds (hopefully) to download their information. In other words, they could be added on an "as needed" basis
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242MB
2700 flicks
IMHO the size is getting rediculous, any plans for slimming down the size of our db in final?
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7.832.399.872 bytes
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I'm curious...
With this number of people, you're obviously not using the option to Show people added from movie credits. They're initially being added as invisible records, then you're doing something to make the ones you're interested in visible. With 1,759 movies, there's likely in the order of 30,000 people in your database—many more if you're not restricting the number downloaded (e.g., actors from main page only).
So I'm wondering if you have any routine for making the people you're interested in visible and downloading their information. I understand this might be simply clicking on people in Movie view if and when you're interested in them. This will make the one selected visible, and switch you to People view where it would only take a few seconds (hopefully) to download their information. In other words, they could be added on an "as needed" basis. On the other hand, you might use some systematic approach, like adding the director and "starring" actors each time you add a movie.
I use the other approach of using the option to Show people added from movie credits, and then regularly downloading information for all the people added since my last update. I'd like to eventually provide a description of both alternatives and their pros and cons in the Help Documentation. And you might convince me I should switch to your method. I find the people I'm really interested in tend to get lost in a sea of 33,000 people. :-\
Just now realized you were talking to me, LOL. (The quoted number of movies was my first clue ;D)
Actually, I DO use "Show people added from movie credits". So, all of the actors credited in the titles I'm adding ARE visible in People View. If you're wondering why there aren't more people in my database, it's probably because the pool of actors working in the genres I'm tracking with this database simply isn't very large... but many of them are very prolific, appearing in hundreds of titles. And most of the movies only credit a handful of actors, so there are usually less than half a dozen added per title, tops.
My typical workflow goes something like this:
- Add a movie with new movie master OR auto-scan inserted DVDs (I burn all my movies onto DVD-Rs, up to six per disc, prior to importing into PVD).
- PVD automatically imports movie info (including the list of cast members) from the Web.
- PVD also automatically adds the credited actors to my People View (due to "Show people added from movie credits"), if they weren't already present.
- I click on each actor in the Movie record to make sure they were added correctly to People View. In some cases they are added under the wrong name or alias, and I have to correct it. (This part is a bit of a pain, as "correcting" means going back to Movie View and editing the Actors list to reflect the correct name so the movie's title gets moved to the correct People record's filmography.)
- I prefer to maintain a semi-complete filmography (even movies I don't have) for every actor, so I use my web browser to search on IMDB for each NEW actor to see if the website has a record of them, and if so, copy the URL to PVD's People-View "URL" field. Then I do an import to get the filmography. I could just import without checking IMDB in my web browser first, but then I run the risk that the wrong actor might be chosen from several similarly-named people/aliases found on IMDB. Again, a pain, but at least I only have to do this once.
- For actors who were already in my database, I just refresh their People View info from IMDB to update the filmographies (I already have the correct IMDB URL for them from when I initially added them). In some cases, I will do this in batches, several people at a time.
- By the time I'm finished importing a batch of movies, I'll often have spurious People records due to the incorrect names/aliases that were added from the import plugins. They're easy to find, because after the corrections I made above, they will have no filmographies. I group the People View by Career, and any listed as "Undefined" get deleted with CTRL held down.
There's really more to it than this... adding screen shots to movies, photos for people, biographical info from several sources, etc. But this is the gist of it.
Aimhere
P.S. - up to 3023 (visible) movies, 5238 people, and a 1.42GB database size now. (Sadly, I'm getting new movies faster than I can catalog or watch them. Broadband Internet makes it too easy!) :P