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Feature Suggestions / Re: Integrated Help Forum
« on: August 31, 2010, 01:53:13 am »
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Configuring the wiki (or any alternative wiki) to be "more PVD centric" (whatever that means) does nothing to address the issue.

I disagree. I have had great success with developing a wiki in at work. It does need to be focused on its purpose for existing and needs someone to take ownership and drive it.

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more PVD centric" (whatever that means)
I mean by this, all the crap needs to be removed and content focused on PVD.
IMO -The wiki focus should be more of a Content Management System with wiki features.

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the help file would only contain links from the program hooks to topics in a forum. They would be organized in a hierarchical manner—a table of contents.
I see some flaws here:
* someone needs to maintain the links in the forum
* multiple posts would need to be maintained.
* users would need to wade through multiple posts to fin the information they are after.

Document management is always contentious. No one like writing "how to" doco.
From experience, I think a wiki style system would work. it needs to be focused and have features to do other stuff (like act as a CMS, produce pdfs etc). The forum still exists to discuss and fix etc, but when a solution is found, all the discussion is removed and the core solution is added to the wiki.

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Feature Suggestions / Re: Integrated Help Forum
« on: August 30, 2010, 10:46:01 am »
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This, of course, begs the question, "What about the wiki?"

I have developed a wiki at work (pmwiki).
I have used this to start to create an online help system, that has additional features, like ability to create PDF pages from wiki pages.
see: http://www.videodb.info/forum_en/index.php?topic=1692.msg7736#msg7736
(I can provide my wiki with what I have done if anyone is interested - I don't have the facilities to host any anything)

I researched tiki wiki and it seems to be missing these features amongst others.
Is it feasible / warranted to change current wiki to another one that has extra features.

Who owns the current wiki? How would they feel about a rewrite to make it more PVD centric or changing to a different wiki?

I don't know how using HelpNDoc would work as there would need to be someone central to maintain the master copy.

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Support / Re: Searching Checkbox
« on: August 21, 2010, 01:40:02 am »
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What I meant with IS NULL is:
Click on the label with "=" sign and select IS NULL from the context menu...

Hi Nostra, this one pops up all the time - new users don't know that this is  a selectable field.
As a user improvement maybe you could put a frame or something around it, to highlight that it is user selectable?

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Support / Re: Searching Checkbox
« on: August 20, 2010, 02:50:23 pm »
yes mutiple selecting is posible.
select multiple movies from movie list on left hand side (right click) and select seen/not seen, owned/not owned.
Can you rename skin values and use these as your custom field?

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Feature Suggestions / Re: File Scanner Improvements II
« on: August 17, 2010, 11:30:42 am »
tested reread file information on my main database and seems to do the job with no ill effects.
A bit more convoluted but a good solution.

I use disk management console extensively - my partitions are mounted as sub-directories under c:

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Now, I'm confused again. If you reserve different letter for each drive, it implies path changing, so scanning as I described earlier overwrites Media label field? But, this was rather rhetorical, you don't have to reply on this.

You are correct that selecting add movie will overwrite media label field, but it also redownloads everything (unless I missed something).
This thread got a bit sidetracked with our two needs.

My original request was for "scan new folders" to also update media label field (which I'm hoping Nostra will still consider) :)
Rick rightly suggested all these media related fields could be updated.(which I'm hoping Nostra will still consider) :)
A step further that would cover all contingencies (and got a bit lost in translation) would be to detect path change OR media label change and update media related fields  (which I'm hoping Nostra will still consider) :) - but he probably wont :(


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Feature Suggestions / Re: File Scanner Improvements II
« on: August 17, 2010, 02:49:28 am »
Hi buah,
glad you understand what I am getting at. :D

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To be honest, CAD, I do not think such a functionality of detecting changed labels, but same paths will be available any time soon as I really can't imagine many users having such situations and you could just have changed the label (not switched hard drives) and the whole thing only to update one field (not a critical one)...

Hi Nostra,
I was going to say that users could rename the volume label, and paths would remain the same.
their databse would then have an incorrect volume label.

Also (as rick hinted) it would be great if all fields (that can be read from the stored media - eg video codecs etc) are updated as part the path chage detection. For me the Media label (volume label) is most important, but I can see how it would be useful to update other fields.

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It's possible to reserve a drive letter for each drive used. I don't have need for it, but it seems USB Drive Letter Manager is the tool to use.
Yes - I can force pvd to recognise movies have changed path, but the change path scan does not update "media label field" which I would like to use to know which HD a particular movie is on.

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you should be able to change those volume labels using Re-read file information
I will try this....when I find it (when i get home) may be easy solution.
Just tried it - and it updates volume label, should be a good work around.  :D

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Feature Suggestions / Re: File Scanner Improvements II
« on: August 17, 2010, 01:01:06 am »
hi buah.
thanks for explaination.
Your process will only work (for me) if PVD detects a changed file path.
The core issue is at detection phase. PVD needs to be able to tell that the volume has been changed not just the path.
Once it has done this it can process as per your process

If you movie 20 movies and you move them from drive i: (with volume label of 15G) to drive h:(with volume label of 1TB) - PVD will detect that the path has changed and give you options to process these movies.

If you move movies from drive i: (with volume label of 15G) to c:\drive. Then swap 15G drive out with 1TB drive. Then copy movies from c: drive to 1TB drive. Now you have 1TB drive with movies on it, but path is still i: - PVD will not detect that path has changed. (it is still i: drive), but the volume label has changed from 15G to 1TB.

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Feature Suggestions / Re: File Scanner Improvements II
« on: August 16, 2010, 12:36:13 pm »
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Try it, don't guess and hesitate, please. Simulate.
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choosing action "Add New Movie" instead of "Change File Path" from the context menu on a selected title in the File scanner,
Ok tried this. Didn't work.

The scanner needs to search that the  "Volume label" of the drive has changed as part of its detection. Not just the path.
I can have the same path but with a different volume label. ie when I swap drives out.

If I change path and then add movie - Yes it does update Media label (volume), but it also re-downloads everything from internet (not what I wanted and not necessary. This has already been done (and checked to be correct).
Selecting "Same movie" does not update Media label.

I do not get to choose anything if the path has not changed (but volume label has) to select add movie as an option.



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Feature Suggestions / Re: File Scanner Improvements II
« on: August 16, 2010, 04:14:10 am »
Hi buah.

The "scan folders for new movies/changed paths" options seems to be scanning for fields related to the media - a local change.
ie It scans the file(s) sitting on your hard drive for information for information about it.
 
Add movie requires searching /downloading content from internet.

The way I think change path should work is:
Program detects path has changed OR Media Label (Drive Volume)  and updates this information.
(optionally updates other fields related to the file media - such as video codec/audio codec etc).
Itr gets all fo this information from the actual file that is stored on hard drive.

Adding it as a new movie would require (re)downloading content from internet and comparing for changes.

Hope this clears up what i am trying to say.

PS - I will try your suggestions when I get a chance.
PPS - This issue is not related to your original post "File Scanner Improvements" Sorry to hijack the Subject title. :)
 

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Feature Suggestions / Re: File Scanner Improvements II
« on: August 15, 2010, 02:03:18 pm »
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then choosing action "Add New Movie" instead of "Change File Path" from the context menu on a selected title in the File scanner, does exactly what are you suggesting as to be implemented?

Not sure - haven't tried it.
What I'm suggesting is when you scan for HardDrive  path changes (under tools/scan folders for new movies-changed paths), it also checks for changed volumes (the name you give your hard drive). (it doesn't do this at the moment) This is all done locally - no need to download anything. I guess adding a new movie would detect its a duplicate and would download content as well.

hope that clears things up.

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Feature Suggestions / Re: File Scanner Improvements II
« on: August 15, 2010, 08:59:20 am »
One more thing, it should scan for path changes AND Volume changes separately.
I have movies stored on drive caddies (removable drive bays.)

Main movie directory is F:\dvd\moviename (year). The volume label of the drive is Movie001.
When this drive is full (and I have watched all movies on it) I will remove the drive and put it into storage (on a shelf most likely).
The new drive I put in will be mapped to F:\dvd\moviename (year) but will have a volume label of Movie002. Scanner folders will need to check for Media label changes as well as path changes to cover all contingencies.

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Feature Suggestions / Re: File Scanner Improvements II
« on: August 15, 2010, 03:09:15 am »
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I think it's better to update things such as the file information from the same source

Rick are you saying, you would like file scanner to update, all fields related to media information when rescanning?
(not going to list all fields) but quality, duration, video codecs, Media label etc.

I think this a good idea. Adds a bit more processing time, but no different than adding a new movie.

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Feature Suggestions / Re: File Scanner Improvements II
« on: August 14, 2010, 02:05:47 pm »
Cool,

I'll add it to your TODO list  ;D

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Feature Suggestions / File Scanner Improvements II
« on: August 14, 2010, 11:11:49 am »
Hi,

When scanning movies in from Hard drive, the "media label" is automatically populated with the volume of the hard drive.
I want to use the volume label as a reference to which hard drive a movie is on.
eg. avatar is on hard drive with volume label - movie001, the matrix is on hard drive with volume label - movie002 etc.

Would it be possible to have "scan folders for new movies/changed paths", also update the "Media Label" field with the Volume as part of the change path scan?

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Support / Bug: Date added.
« on: August 13, 2010, 01:33:50 pm »
Hi,
There seems to be a minor bug/undocumented feature (maybe 2) with filtering movies.

When I filter on date added = today, I get a list of movies I have added today (all good).
bug1:
When I select filters/reset filters from the menu - Nothing happens. I would expect the default behavior would reset filter list to show all.

bug2:
When i hit "date added" button and select "Title+Original Title +AKA" (with the original search string of "todays date" in the search panel)
I get an error box popup with "Conversion error from string ".45" Overflow occurred during data type conversion. Error code 14."

NB: .45 is the first movie in my database.
If I clear the search string of today's date = all good.

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Feature Suggestions / Re: File Scanner Possible Improvements
« on: August 12, 2010, 01:50:48 pm »
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But, how often do you move your files, and why?

I have bunch of movies on HD, That I haven't watched (but want to at some stage)
At some stage the HD fills up. I con move movies i have watched from main HD to another HD.
Eventually other HD will fill up and I can File the HD away with movies I have seen.

When I move movies from main HD to storage HD I need to tell PVD about it.

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Feature Suggestions / Re: File Scanner Possible Improvements
« on: August 11, 2010, 02:29:53 pm »
hi buah,

I have to ask. how often does this happen?
I agree that perhaps file scanner should ask
"film already exists" do you want to change path or add new film.
But this would annoy the shite-ters out of people (like me) who move files to different locations.


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Feature Suggestions / Re: Sorting - Ascending and Descending
« on: August 11, 2010, 10:59:28 am »
C'mon guys.

You just need to look at it:
ABCDEFG...if its not in that order its reversed.  ;D




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Talk / Re: Recommend a Movie form Your Country - Monthly
« on: August 09, 2010, 12:38:23 pm »
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Weekend at Bernie's was one of my favorite comedies when I was young.

yeah but weekend at Bernie's 2 was kinda crap. lol

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Talk / Re: Recommend a Movie form Your Country - Monthly
« on: August 09, 2010, 12:20:09 pm »
ok - Here's my 2c.
Wake in Fright
edit
and I'll add one for my wife
El laberinto del fauno

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