Personal Video Database

End of an era? They refer to 'deep content' on their website... as you guys have said, it seems a lot has actually been culled. It's still in the transition phase, so I expect a number of changes are still to come. Hopefully for better

Thank you Rick. I'll have a go at the steps outlined in that thread.

For me, at least, optional folder location/rules would be an ideal option - that way I could set it the same as my MC library and the whole thing could foreseeably be seamless. Alternatively, a right click on an entry or multiple entries in PVD with a "find poster in folder" would work equally as nicely (it could then just add any posters it finds in the same folder as the movie and save them however you have set it up in preferences).

Then again, this might be something where I'm the only one who would find it useful

Excellent - thanks for that buah

Well series or seasons I guess... once I have all the correct imdb URL's, I'd love to be able to just run the whole lot every month or so to update the information. You'd be surprised at how lazy I can be sometimes.

It's a good thing I don't have ER and Law and Order then
I do have a lot of Star Trek to look forward to...

I just don't believe that good software development—or any creative process—can result by a bunch of people with different perspectives and preferences presenting unopposed ideas.

This is a really great point Discussion among people with different baselines, goals and agendas is inherently prone to disagreement and wounded feelings. Sometimes this can lead to domination by some personality types who hold strong opinions and withdrawal from those who feel intimidated or lack the assertiveness to properly put forward and defend their ideas.

What is important is that opposition should be undertaken with the goal of stimulating further discussion rather than stunting it. This sounds like common sense, but novice users and those who visit the board infrequently may be put off posting just because of the tone of the thread or their relative inexperience compared to the power users who often dominate such discussions. In the end I think the art of diplomacy is key from both parties - recognition of the positive aspects of an idea or suggestion with non-confrontational exposition of problems and drawbacks is more likely to promote further discussion than outright disagreement. It's not simply about backing up assertions with logic, either, but attempting to identify the use case and perspective of the person you happen to be disagreeing with.

I'm usually pretty sensitive about how I'm perceived by others and, like many people, sometimes take criticism or outright disagreement to heart. Sometimes we need to be thick-skinned though and recognise that if our perspective or suggestion isn't supported by someone, it probably just reflects different needs and use of the program and not personal hostility...

Rick is very active here and I think this has been largely beneficial for the program's development. Personally I've had a bunch of problems since I started using the program and he's solved or helped with the vast majority of them.

So yeah... let's all play, but play nice

So do I now hit "post" or is this just another demonstration of my annoying strong mindedness?

"Post" is always a good choice

Another one from me... when I click on a person in an episode, the episode/show does not come up under their filmography. If they are credited in the actual series entry then the series will be listed (with no episodes). So if John Smith is in an episode, he has nothing listed under his filmography... is this the way it should work?

Haha yes I'm just doing a test lookup each time I start it up... if it works once, it seems to keep working until a restart.

Surely others have noticed this?

Hi there.

I was wondering if it were possible to achieve the following: I have series populated with all the episodes belonging to that series, downloaded from TheTVDb. All the episodes I have files for have the "Path" field populated. There are many episodes/seasons I am missing - naturally these episodes contain an empty Path field.

I wish to display all the episodes which I don't have files for (ie to see what I'm missing) - find movies removed from HD works well for this with movies, but isn't really helpful for episodes. It appears to look only at the "Series" level, and not at the episode level.

An example (* denotes I have a file and the path is entered into the episode reference)

American Dad
  Season 1
    1.1 *
    1.2 *
    1.3
    1.4 *
    ... *
  Season 2
    2.1
    2.2 *
    2.3 *
    etc

How could I get it to display only

American Dad
  Season 1
    1.3
  Season 2
    2.1

EDIT: I just realised I can do this with the filter "Show movies on removable drives". Thanks for being a few steps ahead Nostra

Haha, just saw this! I certainly haven't come back an expert I went off and did a bit of reading and then applied my tried and tested "trial and error approach" and got it working. With help from patch's example. Only to come back and see Nostra solved it for me anyway I have all my TV shows in PVD now and am just figuring out the best sources for the info. I prefer thetvdb.com's episode lists and release dates, but naturally IMDb has the most comprehensive metadata and the episode numbers don't always match up. Decisions, decisions.

And only four weeks away from finals

Hello hello.

I've taken the plunge and have started looking at importing TV shows in PVD. I have all my TV shows in the file format...

E:\Television\Dark Angel\Season 2\Dark Angel - 2-03. Proof of Purchase

The default filescanner is picking up the show title as "Dark Angel - 1" and "Dark Angel - 2" etc and not picking up the Episode Name part of the filename. Before I go and to a whole lot of manual work, is there any way to set the filename scanner to pick up the season and the episode name if all my filenames are in this format?

I've been fiddling with the RegExps options for the file scanner to try and get PVD to pick files up as

<title> - <season>-<episode>. <eptitle>

So far I haven't had any luck. If anyone has any suggestions, I'd be really grateful