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Support / Re: Can I import from MyMovies
« on: November 18, 2009, 12:35:34 pm »

Hi Rick,

found time to try again to get from mymovies to pvd.

from mymovies i can export to xml, import into excel and then into pvd.  so....

i was thinking that the imdb id would be a good field to bring in, but the xls pvd import list doesn't contain the imdb id field, only the imdb rating.  easy to fix?  do i just add something to the front and call it the url?

also, on the first i get to choose the fields and the order.  on the second import i only get to choose the file.  so can no longer try.  do i have to do something to reset?


thanks
craig

ps: just tried to import a directory, very cool that you do some filtering on the directory names, but it still only gets a 50% hit rate from imdb.  for big imports (i.e. getting started) it would be much better if it did all of the downloading and remembered the possible choices, i quickly make all the selections (because of my bad directory names) and then go back to the downloading.  At the moment i have a lot of waiting between downloads, it is ruining my movie watching :))?? 

pps: still quite impressed with pvd, much better than mymovies.  will pvd export files for wmc (dvdid or whatever it is)? can i export to mymovies.xml files also, seems to be reasonably popular with some other jukeboxes?

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Support / Re: Can I import from MyMovies
« on: November 17, 2009, 12:53:20 am »

And the rescan tries to match the filename in the database with a filename in the scanned directories? 

If so, I guess it is ok as long as I don't rename?  What happens if I do decide to rename the directories and files from within MC or other?  Am I doomed?  Is this why you suggested the renaming before starting PVD?

Thanks
Craig

PS: This is actually no worse than what I have at the moment, if I rename the files/directories in MC the mymovies.xml file and artwork are not moved (it appears, will double check when I get home).  I have a vbs script to modify the mymovies.xml to match the name of a media file in the directory, so that bit would be ok.


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Support / Re: Can I import from MyMovies
« on: November 16, 2009, 10:49:21 pm »

does this linking by filename imply that if i move my movies around the link gets broken?

thanks
craig

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Support / Re: Can I import from MyMovies
« on: November 14, 2009, 11:09:30 am »
i did a quick export from mc with the names (and year).  some of the names were still ambiguous for pvd and thus manual intervention required.  are there some more foolproof fields from mymovies that i can guarrantee the same result in pvd.

installed pvd and it does look a lot better than mymovies as i am not using the wmc aspect.  though i didn't get the pvdimport plugin to do much.  what is the defining attribute that links the pvd database and the MC database, is it the file name, file name and location, or????

will keep playing, your program looks great.

thanks

craig

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Support / Can I import from MyMovies
« on: November 11, 2009, 12:06:43 pm »

Hi,

I am just new to J River and have imported most of my media into mymovies.  it was quite a bit of effort to get everything pretty much correct (very poor naming of directories/files) and don't want to redo it.  Can pvd use the mymovies.xml files as a starting point?

Thanks
Craig

PS Without meaning to be rude on the Pvd forum, has anyone used both mymovies and Jriver and subsequently moved to pvd and j river with no regrets?
 

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