Personal Video Database

It seems that getting links for some entries in filmographies was already corrupt for some time, but nobody knew The only thing you can do is to rewrite all filmographies all over again.

sigh... guess I'll just have to fix the bad entries as they crop up, because I am NOT going to totally rebuild all these filmographies.

Oh well... thanks for the updates anyway, Nostra.

Aimhere

Hi again,

Since the IMDB changes that broke the IMDB People plugin, I've noticed other odd behavior from the plugin besides that which has been mentioned previously.

I've been using IMDB to import filmographies for all the people in my database for a long time now. But recently, when I run the plugin on a person who already has a filmography (with the option "Merge filmographies" checked in Preferences) in order to update them, the plugin creates a duplicate entry in the filmography for a few movies; the titles, original titles, and release years all match exactly, too. Usually these movies are not in my master Movies list, so as an experiment I've clicked on them in People view to make them visible in Movies view. And I've found that of the two identical movies, one has a correctly-formatted IMDB URL ... but the other has a bizzare, malformed URL with some extra stuff tacked onto the end, something like this:

http://imdb.com/title/tt0076759/" onclick="(new Image()).src='/rg/filmo/title-title/images/b.gif'
What's more, the two movie entries often have lists of actors associated with them, but different lists (some people present in one are missing from the other).

Also, I've been occasionally finding Movie View entries (for movies I've actively added to my database) with similarly-malformed IMDB URLs in their URL fields... in addition to a correctly formatted IMDB URL!

In further testing, after clicking the duplicates in the Person filmography to make them both visible in Movies view, I then CTRL-Delete them both, to completely remove them from the database... then switch back to People view, run the IMDB People plugin import again, re-adding the movie to the filmography... and click on it to view it in Movies view. Lo and behold, the URL is correct!

So now, I'm wondering whether the "old" filmography entries (the ones existing prior to my recent attempts at updating them, not the new duplicates) actually had malformed URLs all along, and I simply didn't know about it because they were hidden in Movies view? And maybe at some point the IMDB plugin was malfunctioning, or simply receiving bad data from IMDB itself???

I don't know how the malformed URLs were getting into my "real" Movie View entries (the ones I added myself, not clicked on in People View)... unless, maybe, the IMDB People plugin was at some point trying to merge imported filmographies, saw an existing Movie entry, and added the malformed URL to it (even though it already had an IMDB URL associated with it) rather than creating a duplicate movie record? Bizzare...

Aim(my brain hurts)here

And then it deletes the oldest entry[ies] in the database, leaving only the newest one? (I seem to recall this from another post.)

I did a little cleanup work on some fields in my database, going to try the "delete movie duplicates" function again and see what happens...

Aimhere

Heh, I just noticed the IMDB page layout changes myself. Definitely breaks the Filmography import. Damn website designers, always changing things!

Aimhere

Edit: Well, this is wierd... sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it works on the first try for a given actor, sometimes I have to try two or three times, or do an import for a different actor before returning to the first one...

Hi,

In both the main "search filter" menu (the button to the right of the search box) and "Advanced Search", the list of available search fields is in a very particular order, closely following the order of the fields in the main window. But frankly, there are times when I wish the list was in alphabetical order instead, which would make it easier for me to find an item when I know what it's called.  Is there any chance of adding a toggle in Preferences to sort the search fields alphabetically?

Aimhere

Hi,

While I can understand the desire to have PVD do everything, I found an excellent standalone video screenshot/thumbnails maker, called, surprisingly enough, "Video Thumbnails Maker".

http://www.suu-design.com/projects.html

Give this a try if PVD's screenshots aren't to your liking...

Aimhere

thank you for your script. I'm wondering if it is possible to download also the back side of the cover.
Is it possible to integrate this feature in your script?

Ghaahh, I can barely keep the script running correctly as it is, and you want me to add a new feature???

Just so it's clear, I didn't write the original script. I'm only making small modifications as Adult DVD Empire makes HTML changes that break it. As it stands now, the importing of the cast list for a given movie doesn't always work right, but my script-fu is too weak to figure out a better way to do it. I'll try to see what I can do, but learning the scripting language and working on the script is a low priority for me.

AimHere

Hi,

I have a small suggestion regarding hyperlinks and tooltips.

Currently, when you point at a link to a movie in a person's filmography, or at a actor in a movie's credits, PVD will display a pop-up tooltip with basic information on the movie or person (photo/poster, birthdate/year, etc.) But, it only does this for the hyperlinks within the movie credits or people filmographies. I would also like to see it work for "embedded" links (inserted with CTRL-H) within text fields such as Biography or Comments. For example, if Movie A's "Comments" field contains an embedded link of type "Name" pointing to Actor B, then hovering the mouse over that link should show a tooltip for Actor B.  At the very least, I'd like for this to work for links of type "Name", "Title", and "ID" (I realize most of the other link types are really nothing more than search filters).

Along the same lines, it would be nice if an embedded link of type "URL" would show a tooltip with the actual associated URL, so I can tell where it will take me if I click on it.

Aimhere

Hi again,

I'd like to see the "Name"/"Translated Name"/"Alternative Names" fields in People View get some added functionality.

Suppose I have "Show people added from movie credits" selected in Preferences, and I add a new movie (letting whatever plugin applies download the credits from the Web). It would be great if PVD would scan the "Name", Translated Name", and "Alternative Names" of all existing People records for matches to each actor in the film credits, and display a list of matching People so that I can choose which record the movie ought to be added to.

This would be really useful for actors that frequently perform under multiple aliases. As things stand now, if a person appears in a movie's credits under a certain alias, but I have him/her in my database under a different name, PVD will merely create a new People record using the credited alias, ignoring the fact that I had the alias listed in "Alternative Names".

This could work both ways, too (assuming "Show movies added from filmography" is selected in Preferences): If I'm in People View and import an actor's filmography, and one of the imported titles already appears in my Movies list within a certain movie's "Also known as" field, PVD ought to ask whether the imported title ought to be linked to the existing movie or added as a new record.

Both of these features ought to be selectable options, of course, since they might not appeal to every user.

Aimhere

Just a quick heads-up:

Now that a new stable (?) version of PVD is out, I will no longer maintain a separate version of the ADE script for use with PVD versions below 0.9.9.5.  (I myself have switched to the newest version for my own use, by the way.)

Aimhere

(P.S. - Rick.ca, perhaps this thread ought to be replaced with the one for 0.9.9.5+ now. Or at least merged with it.)