Personal Video Database

seperate post as requested..

As stated it doesn't Alphabatize correctly.

(btw - you might want to check your server - you have an issue there)

Hi -

Just letting you know...

PVD Portable Beta v0.9.9 Installed on USB.

Win XP SP3

It scanned my Movies fine on one comp.
It updated yesterday with 19 updates - and websearched fine - for a little while.
I was doing about 10 to 20 movies at a time using the IMB and A?? for the websearch.

1.5 to 2 hrs in - It froze - completely.
Cntrl/alt/delete to shut it down.

Restart - froze again in a few minutes.
cntrl/alt/delete to shut it down.

There after it would create a duplicate Movie title with no file location for every title I searched.
Optimizing - with remove duplicates for both movies and people - deleted 257 people and around 70 titles over all.
I mean titles that should have been there.

Rescanned the drives for the movies.
And it really started acting funky.
It would scan and all duel dvds it would only add Disc 2
It would change file locations to the incorrect movie title.

examples of both:

If the title was "Legends of the Fall" - it would give a file location for "The Fall"
(which is another movie title) and delete "The Fall title"

"Lord of the Rings" it would change the file location to "The Ring" another movie and delete "The Ring"

Lord of the Rings: Title one - and Lord of the Rings: Title two - it would only see the First Movie title. and give the file location as the second movie.

Same with any other title such as Pirates of the Carribbean: Movie one; Pirates of the Carribbean: Movie Two; It would list Movie ones title and give the file location for movie two.

It was also trying to add in titles that no longer existed.

I tried restoring etc - nothing worked to correct the issue.

So I copied my db and .ini and deleted PVD and the backups off the usb. and did a re-install.
This fixed the scan issue.
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Today with the re-install - and db corrected; ready to finish searching the web for the rest of the movie info and posters.

First things first - update.
Todays update was much much more - including templates etc; where as yesterdays was just the 19 plugins.

After the update - and it re-opened
No images - default plugin for search is gone as are most of them.
Though I show twice as many listed in Import drop down.

Un-installed - same way as before.
Re-installed - added the db and image folder and ... just opened it up and nothing. No images - though the plugins are back.
Did a Restore... no images still

Overwrite the pvdconfig.in with the backup copy and...
no images.

I haven't updated it again yet - but have to inorder to use the plug-ins and websearch.

Sorry no bug report from yesterday - it froze and my time was up for my online connection.

none yet for today as it is what it is - I'll check the ini and see if it's point correctly if not I have a back up copy of the old db on another comp and will try to fix it later.

thought you'd be interested in this since it's beta...

chase

Hey all,

I noticed all the search strings are different per site and all are plug-ins

I understand the %U and so on but how does one figure out the rest of the string that is needed for a particular site?
Do you go to the site an manually do a search and look at the string to get the correct search string or...

Is there a help page that explains creating a search string or plugin for PVD that I can read up on as well?

I ask about the search string creation for creating search plug-ins for other sites since I have a couple databases that are for my tuts ready to try an online search for the info.

tia for any help with this.
chase

PS - The problem I was having with my regular movie search was solved by PVD itself. I'm using a different comp today and once connected it imediatly let me know of 19 updates - once updated it's filling in the data and getting posters real nice!

This thing is bad to the bone guys - it is soo..o cool. This is all new to me - I love how it fills in all the blanks.
hang on - I feel some happy feet needing to do a happy dance! lol

Now if i can get it to do this for my tutorials - Man you guys/ PVD would take the net by storm.
Seriously - Who wouldn't want this for their tuts...?!
For every college student on the planet - or home study person... with PVD able to scan any media type... it's a must have!

I'm totally psyc'd to get it cranking for my tuts. Till then... happy feet dance for it working on my movies.!!

oh i did get a "Added to {$list_name}" in one title in the Discription area - don't know what it means but thought you should know.

Hi -

I have to ask this question since I'm basing how I set up PVD based I what I read in a revue on PVD.

In the review it stated that PVD has a limit of 1000 titles or Movies that you can add.
Yet some indicators in the preference area and from what Rick has stated about his data base being so large, well, It makes me think that this info may be false.

So - per data base created with PVD what is the actual limit if there is one of titles that can be added? Is it 1000?

thanx
chase

Hi -

New to PVD and have started creating a db of all my tutorials and personal vids.

My question conserns child pages or "episode" pages and how do I set up my files and folders so I can just scan them for new movies and have it auto add them to the correct Parent DB page?

Right now I have them named
01. XYZ.FLV
02. XYZ.FLV
03. XYZFLV
and so on

Folders are set up like so:

Tutorials
- Cinema 4D
-- Maxon Videos
--- Quick Tips
---- C4D R13
----- 01. XYZ.movie file
----- 02. XYZ.movie file
----- 03. XYZ.movie file
---- C4D R12
----- 01. XYZ.movie file
----- 02. XYZ.movie file
----- 03. XYZ.movie file


- Blender 3D
-- CG Tuts
--- Create XYZ in Blender

Problem is I can't figure out how to get them to scan as episodes when set up this way.

They all come in as seperate video's and I have to manually put them in - adding a new child page or episode page for each video.

I did do an experiment in which i scanned my main tutoral file folder - all my tutorials and it did set a couple of them up with child / episode pages with the appropriate video.

But there was no label nor the correct "season"

And I couldn't see what difference in the way they were named for a reason as to why it put them in a child page or "episode" or what makes it a "season" number.

I could use some help on this as I'm currently going through all my tutorials - naming them appropriatley - sorting them etc etc.

Oh - one other question - In regards to the 1000 limit - does a child page count towards that 1000? or is that limit for number of parent pages only and you can have as many child pages as needed?

I ask because - In some series of videos - I have say 100 episodes that go with that 1 series.

So... does that leave 999 records i can add to the DB still or only 899?

tia
- chase -

PS: I just printed / saved pdf's of your help and manual files - do you want a copy of the pdfs?
Your welcome to them incase someone wants to download the help manual
- I did
.. stating the obvious, that's why i made the pdfs...

let me know and I'll attach them to a thread.