Personal Video Database

It has lots of potential, but still immature in structure and organization of data

I disagree. It's not intended for collecting photos of people. Their primary purpose is for identification. I limit the number of people added to my database, and I still have over 15,000. I certainly do not want more than one added automatically. For a small portion of those, I do collect some high quality photos. In those cases, the photos are hand-picked. Using the beta version, I can copy them from wherever I find them and paste them to the container—it doesn't get easier than that. The result can then be shown as one photo and/or an image list—anywhere in the skin. While there will always be ways to improve it, the program seems the opposite of "immature" to me.

While the style of the site is a little different, and some features are new, the data appears to be identical. Have you found any differences? Is there any data AllMovie has that AllRovi does not?

In any case, the script may serve as a useful backup to the AllRovi script. Thanks for your efforts.

Hmm, so you're saying currently the scanner evaluates only the named capture <origtitle> to compare the filename with the movies in PVD?

No, I mean I didn't read your post carefully enough to see your second regex would capture <title>.

Yes, I too would expect it should be able to make a correct match when both <origtitle> and <title> have been captured. But I can also vaguely see why the logic might cater to the 'normal' use of the corresponding fields (where [Title] is an alternate name for [OrigTitle], not a different movie). It's been a long time since he wrote it, but maybe nostra can recall whether this is something he might easily modify.

I could immagine a solution to this problem would be an option to switch of this concatenation for all kind of filenames (a similar option exists for multiple disc detection). But the best way, IMHO, would be the logic mentioned above.

I'm not sure what you mean by this. My trailers are intentionally named so they match the same regex that matches the movie. So I understand the program cannot know whether such a match (when [File Path] is not empty) is something to be added (i.e., concatenated), a change to the existing value, or is for a new unrelated movie. But there should be the possibility to in the results dialog to change the action from 'Change' to 'Add'. I suppose it might be handy to have buttons for changing all of one type of recommendation (i.e., 'New movie/episode', 'Change path' or 'Add file') to another—especially when scanning after adding a batch of movies, episodes or trailers, or moving folders.

Are you sure you updated the plugin version? I tested 0.9.9.21 using the previous version, and it downloaded no seasons for 90120. I updated the plugin to 0.9.8.2, and it added all four seasons.

1.0.2.2 Beta

Overwrite Settings appears at the bottom of Preferences > Plugins when an applicable plugin is selected. In the case of the IMDb plugin, there's also a Configure dialog to be completed.

It seems to me the checkboxes are only of use in the very rare circumstance you want to add more than one of the movies listed. Otherwise, it's much faster just to double-click the one correct match.

I probably wont once its up and running, but now its annoying there are many copies of my testing.

You can select as many items in the list as you wish—by bookmarking, filtering and/or advanced search, or just by Ctrl-Clicking items—and then Ctrl-Delete them all at once.

If you believe you've configured the plugins correctly, please post a sample of each type of file.

The IMPawards plugin hasn't worked in at least a year. I don't know why it's getting no love. The Amazon plugins were fixed not so long ago. I don't know what the problem is now, but I don't really care. It's posters aren't significantly better than those already available at IMDb. I explained here why I believe modifying TMDb plugin to get just the default poster (instead of all of them) would be the best solution for posters. Since the time available to maintain poster plugins is obviously limited, I think it would better to spend it on TMDb and abandon the rest.

I wait a bit...and then PVD "blinks" like it is done, only it didn't add anything.

The AMC plugin works fine for me. It's not very fast, so 1400 movies would take a while. In testing, it did stop to ask about a duplicate movie, which seemed odd since I was importing to an empty database. But when I answered that dialog, it finished and displayed the results. Is it possible the same happened to you, but the dialog was hidden behind the main window? Also, did you check the plugin configuration to ensure the fields were properly mapped? This could also have been the problem with the Excel and CSV plugins.