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Support / 0.9.9.18 small issues
« on: March 02, 2010, 02:46:02 pm »
Hi guys,

since I installed the newest versions (0.9.9.18 + imdb 0.9.2.6) I noticed a pair of small glitches, viewable in the attached screen:

1 - IMDb plugin no longer dowloads the image, but only for some movies (50% more or less, try MirrorMask as in the screen for ex.). I know they've been messin' up some things in the site, they never stop eh?  :P  ('course "download image" option is checked)

2 - The search bar has grown a bit too much or am I mental? =D (you can see, it kills the buttons nearby)


End of annoyances part, now go with the request-to-nostra-claus part:  :)

3 - The new auto update is very cool, but it advices you also about plugins that you don't have/use anymore, could be possible to search only the installed ones? Otherwise the update screen is way too messy (imo).

4 - By the way, this morning it haven't found the new IMDb plugin by itself, I had to shoot the update search manually... how does it work? or is a bug?

5 - Last, I swear! ;D  It would be a dream to have a shortcut to empty the search bar (I'd assign it to esc for ex.), backspacing repeatedly is obnoxious =d. Unless it exists already and I haven't noticed, in that case you can slap me in the face or anything you want!

Thanks a lot and merry xmas in advance  ;D

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Development / Localized IMDb search
« on: June 03, 2009, 11:35:17 pm »
Hello to all!

First, congrats is due to nostra for this great piece of software, it even beats commercial ones and i find it a pleasure to use ;)
Well I'm glad to be here and I hope to be useful for some, albeit small, improvement.

Preamble:
is kinda simple, we all know IMDb is de facto the definitive source to obtain movie informations, even if you are not from an english speaking country (like me to say one). Local sites are pale surrogates of IMDb vastness.

The issue:
if you're not english there's a big probability that you name your movies with translated titles. If you, like me, would like to inject all this movies into PVD, and save much time, should use IMDb search, 'cause it will be a shure shot (italian sites for example are very incomplete) but...what the hell, IMDb doesn't seem to find anything!
Of course I'd say, one have to use the localized version of IMDb (not everyone knows this possibility). At the moment there are few: UK, German, Italian. There's also a refined way: akas.imdb.com. Its search is performed on every AKA of the movie Db, making every search 99% accurate as one expect it to be!

The fact is, I tried so many software and not a single one implements this simple but very powerful and useful feature... with PVD I first felt to have found the definitive program, so I'm here to suggest such a feature, or simply (as a programmer) help to create it!
However I think this wouldn't be too difficult to change the approach of the imdb.dll plugin, maybe to use only the AKA one in first instance (with english title search it returns the same results of the main site search) or to create a bridge plugin to shot the right URL to imdb.dll. In the end the only difference is the beginning of the url (www.imdb.com/... - akas.imdb.com/...), the identificative number after that is fortunately the same.

Nostra, you're the master, I'll wait for your wise reply  :D

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