Personal Video Database

A bug, I guess... But some very minor thing: The tool tip for the folder symbol next to "File Path:" says "Always show". That doesn't make sense to me.

Solved this one. It didn't happen in 1.0.2.3. The classic skin from download page seems to be outdated. It differs from the one that came with 1.0.2.3. I switched to the one from the beta version and it looks fine, now.

Other things...

- don't know if I do anything wrong, but no matter which export plugin I set to default: after restart PVD always switches to "Export to Mediaportal" (in export drop down list) while the "Execute default export plugin"-button stays with "Export to plain text".

- if I widen the movie list on the left of the window a little bit (by dragging the right border further to the right), after restart of PVD the "Also known as" field disappears completely or is very, very narrow. Only happens in full screen. When windowed, after restart the field is there again (or in full screen if the right border of the movie list was moved back to the left prior to restart). It only happens while looking at movies on top of the list. When restartet with a movie further down near the bottom of the list, everything seems ok. Same behaviour in 1.0.2.3. In 0.9.9.21 it's better: it only happens if the border is moved to the far right (which is not possible in 1.0.2.x) before restart. Only "Also known as" is affected, no matter how far I pull the border. It is difficult to reproduce with less than 1600 movie entries in 1.0.2.x and with less than 500 in PVD 0.9.9.21. My screen resolution is 1280 in width, maybe that matters.

But now for real! A bug...
Some movie posters get partially transparent. Seems to happen when blocks within a JPG are absolutely flat in colour. See first attachment. Here, the flat black areas are affected. It's a normal jpg without any transparency added. When saved the image seems to be fine (see second attachment).

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Thanks a lot! Works fine with the skin from the download page.
I adapted the "HTML Frames" and "HTML List" export templates to PVD version 1.0.2.5, now.

Welcome back, Zacca.

I don't have a smart phone, but I'm curious...Would an alternative be to use one svenne's templates to export HTML files, and then view these using the phone's browser? Or would they need to be modified for a hand held screen? And if that were possible, would there be advantages to doing it that way (e.g., easy access from browser, modifications, etc.)?

Yes, it is possible, but the only browser that can handle the "HTML Frames"-template is Firefox for Android, as far as i know. That might change in near future with further development of the other browsers. The problem is, that the other browsers don't provide vertical scrolling for the movie list.

Hi nostra!

The following template option seems to be broken in Windows 8... 

%fname% - selected target filename (without extension)

It was reported in the "Export template: HTML"-Thread. See details here:
http://www.videodb.info/forum_en/index.php/topic,1844.msg16081.html#msg16081

Best regards,
svenne

Ok, I don't think it's possible either, because you're in need of binary and hexadecimal encoding, am I right?
Well, you could export all data needed in text format and process that with another programm/an executable you wrote in Delphi...
A "real" plugin doing the job in one step would be nicer, of course.

Hi Stefan!
If there is anything going wrong with the sort function, please let me know. I will try to fix it. Perhaps I already did... when did you download the template and modified it? For the CMS search it might be better to use the "HTML Frames" template. Movie details would be on a separate file for every movie.

This might be interesting for changing the collation on existing databases. The command came with Firebird 2.5... don't know the details, but it might be helpful when you are going to tackle this issue.
http://www.firebirdsql.org/refdocs/langrefupd25-ddl-charset.html
I was unsure but just decided to post it. However, I don't want to be pushy on this topic... well, maybe a little bit
Well, kidding aside, don't feel pushed.

...aren't likely to remember what the dots mean

If you hover the mouse pointer over the dots a label tells what it is.

...you might want to add a green dot for bookmarked items

Bookmarking and setting the filter "bookmarked" in PVD is the best and easiest way to export a custom selection of movies. But in that case I won't like to have dots in front of all entries...

But if you want to have an additional green dot for bookmarks just add the following code directly after %HEAD% <li> in "HTML Frames.ptm"
{#StringReplace '{#StringReplace '{%value=bookmark}' '0' ''}' '-1' '<span style="color:#66FF66;font-weight:bold;" title="bookmarked!">&bull;&nbsp;</span>'}
In PVD you my also add a custom item with type "checkbox". If you called it "DOTTY" you would add the following code to "HTML Frames.ptm" to get a dot for that...
{#StringReplace '{#StringReplace '{%value=DOTTY custom="true"}' '0' ''}' '-1' '<span style="color:#66FF66;font-weight:bold;" title="DOTTY!">&bull;&nbsp;</span>'}I'm quite sure you don't want to call it "DOTTY"... 
Call it as you like and replace the two occurances of DOTTY within the code snippet with the name you chose.

...maybe get user input for the bookmark caption

For export templates all interaction possible with the user is the "Save as" dialog. Or am I wrong?