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Support / Re: PVD and MediaPortal MovingPictures
« on: July 26, 2013, 08:31:24 am »
I'm curious why go through all that when you can export Personal Video Database to XML and import it directly into MyFilms plugin for MediaPortal? You don't even need to move your movies to separate folders. It only takes a few minutes to create a database using the Setup Wizard and you can be using your PVD catalog in MediaPortal.

MyFilms offers so many more features than MovingPictures, such as view, sort by any field, search for related films with the same actors or crew members. And it supports PVD actors, crew and images.

Better yet, you can export your DVD/BD movies which is not possible using MovPicNFO without a lot of work to create dummy folders.

With PVD's great Export Template system you can probably easily export fields like Audio Codec, Bitrates and Languages which PVD (at least in the past) did not export by default.

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Development / PVD In MediaPortal with My Films plugin
« on: October 01, 2011, 10:34:52 am »
A new version of the MediaPortal plugin My Films v5.1 has been released. It now includes PVD as one of the supported formats.  ;D

You can read all about My Films in the Blog: http://www.team-mediaportal.com/team-blog/my-films-5-the-future-is-here

If you use MediaPortal:
1. Install My Films
2. Export your PVD catalog to XML
3. In My Films setup/config, run the setup wizard - point to you exported PVD XML file

That's it!  Most of the options are preset for you so you can display all your PVD catalog and artwork in MediaPortal in minutes.

There is an extensive Wiki for My Films, including how to setup MediaPortal if you have never used it before, and any special options for PVD: http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_MEDIAPORTAL_1/17_Extensions/3_Plugins/My_Films

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Support / Re: Scan folders/file scanner confusion
« on: June 16, 2008, 08:17:30 am »
Thanks Nostra, don't worry I am just learning, not impatient!  I appreciate all your great and timely support and the efforts you are making!

What I did was create a PVD using file scan, then import all the results into an AMC database then import all the file paths from that AMC database into my PVD database.  I had to use the AMC import because I don't think the CSV import lets you merge or overwrite data on matching titles.  Am I right?  It would be great if the CSV import could do this as well  ;)

Just a note on a few weird problems on the filescan parsing in Titles:

1.  10,000 becomes 10,00
2.  3 10 becomes 3 0
3.  Mr. (also Mrs.) becomes Mr (Mrs) looks like all dots (periods) are stripped

These files may or may not import movie info from the web depending on the import site.  If I correct the titles, filescan keeps finding them as new movies.


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Support / Re: Scan folders/file scanner confusion
« on: June 15, 2008, 10:01:46 pm »
OK, I have another problem/question!

In an existing database, when I have movies with two files (usually named Title\Title.ext -cd1 and Title\Title.ext -cd2) the filescan wants to change the file path to the second filename.  (In some cases it wants to add a new movie!).  Is there any way I can tell it to append the file to the existing File Path field like it does when I run filescan on a new database (e.g. Title\Title.ext -cd1|Title\Title.ext -cd2)

If not, could this feature be added (i.e. option to append filename to file path) where it matches an existing title?

If there are two file names in the File Path, will PVD play both files (I am guessing PVD uses the default player, so this likely depends on the player!)

If not, I guess I just need to manually add all the second file names to the File Path field or put them in the Ignore List?

Don't get me wrong, I think the FileScan feature is FANTASTIC. Especially when it automatically checks for new movies and enters them in my database. That's why I just want it to work more seamlessly!

I am still trying to think of a solution where the Title parsed from the Filename cannot match the Title field (usually because it contains punctuation which cannot be included in a filename such as a colon).

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Support / Re: Scan folders/file scanner confusion
« on: June 13, 2008, 08:16:24 pm »
It may not be possible to recogiize ALL filenames, but it is possible to recognize and parse most of them.  I use a plugin in MediaPortal (which is fully free and Open Source) called MyTVSeries which is excellent.  It automatically links to my AMC catalog in XML format. You should consider an XML format for PVD that could be used by this plugin because MediaPortal is getting more widely known and used for the excellent Media Center it is.  You should get PVD known by these people.  This plugin does use SQL for the database I believe, but I don't know what the actual code the plugin is written in.

When parsing files, I use a regexp in the following format and it parses almost every file I have no matter how it is named:

^.*?\\?(?<series>[^\\$]+?)(?:s(?<season>[0-1]?\d)e(?<episode>\d\d)|(?<season>(?:[0-1]\d|(?<!\d)\d))x?(?<episode>\d\d))(?!\d)(?:[ .-]?(?:s\k<season>e?(?<episode2>\d{2}(?!\d))|\k<season>x?(?<episode2>\d{2}(?!\d))|(?<episode2>\d\d(?!\d))|E(?<episode2>\d\d))|)[ -.]*(?<title>(?![^\\]*?sample)[^\\]*?[^\\]*?)\.(?<ext>[^.]*)$

I don't know if this helps PVD in any way, but I just thought I'd throw it out there in case!

I agree it would be helpful to know what filenames PVD can parse!

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Support / Re: Scan folders/file scanner confusion
« on: June 12, 2008, 10:08:13 pm »
Usually I name my files as follows:

...\Title\Title.S02E01.episodename.avi

File scan puts all these in the File Path of the main Series record with a vertical bar | separating each file.

However, I forgot to set the Preferences to leave the Titles Formatted as they are and now I have to change them all back manually or else File Scan thinks it is a new series (most often where the series name starts with 'The')  :-\

Some of the files are named:
\Title\Season\Title - 1x02 - Episodename - details.avi

File scan puts these into separate series records, not episodes, even if there is already a Series record with the Title name.

I hope that helps.  If you need any more detail let me know.

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Support / Scan folders/file scanner confusion
« on: June 10, 2008, 04:13:39 pm »
I admit I am new to the program, but I am at a loss how to use the Scan folder/file function properly.

In the case of TV Series, sometimes the scanner puts all the file paths for all the episode files into the file path field for the existing Series record instead of putting one file path in each episode record.  Is that what it is supposed to do?  Sometimes it puts them in separate records for each Episode but then it does not group them by series! The only thing I can see is that it depends on how the files are named. If the filenames do not have spaces, they seem to all go in the one record (and it takes forever!). If they have spaces, then they go in separate records, but never in episode records (this is much faster)!

In the case of Movies with more than one file, it tries to create a separate movie record for each file, instead of putting both files in the File Path. Again this may be because there are spaces in the filename.  I don't know!

Please help!

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