Personal Video Database

Seems you already figured out how to enable/disable the side panels in mdb_confic.inc.

Disabling side panels may not be a good idea, although I suppose the cause of this may be something else... If a link is selected in details, that search will be executed, but then there is no way to clear it (e.g., selecting "All Movies" does nothing—the search terms stay in the URL).

Nested within series, I hope. Many actors have been in hundreds of episodes.

No, links to files on R: do not work. Links to files on E: do work. I tried the same in IE, and both work. So it seems the problem is with Firefox. I tried Firefox in safemode—same result. I can't see anything in my configuration settings that would cause this. I suppose this might have something to do with the fact E: is a hard drive partition, and R: is a USB drive partition—but I can't imagine what.

This is so weird, I'm almost willing to use Kroozbox with IE. Oh, but wait... While the HTML file links work fine, the identical Kroozbox links do nothing in IE! I haven't tried all possibilities (just wrapMediaInASX=false with file:\\\), but I need to take a break before my head explodes...

I'm suspecting that the ":" is confusing VLC since it is also a port separator.

From the behaviour I've seen, I don't think the issue extends beyond Firefox, but I'll give this a try...

Nope. I may be wrong, but after trying it all sorts of different ways in Firefox, Opera and IE, and with different media players, I'm convinced this is not going to work the way you're trying to make it work. The closest I got to seeing anything working was (1) the file being "downloaded" and played from the temp directory or browser cache, or (2) the media player being launched immediately, but not being passed a valid file path.

I wonder if you're insisting the browser send the link selection back to Kroozbox, so Kroozbox can issue a command to play the file referred to in the link. Isn't there a way to make a plain file:\\\ link for the browser to use directly? In other words, like the <a href="file:///E:\Viewed\Barbarian Invasions (2003) 7.8.avi">Text Link</a> I mentioned before—the file:/// modification, but also somehow preventing the uuencoding. I understand that's what you were trying to do with the ASX wrapper, but is there not a more direct way? Yes, I know, I'm reaching for straws...

To repeat my previous experiment—because I've changed so many things since trying it last—if I save <a href="file:///E:\Video\Elite Squad (2007) 8.1 Disc 1.avi">Text Link</a> in a HTML file, selecting the link produces file:///E:/Video/Elite%20Squad%20(2007)%208.1%20Disc%201.avi, which launches in my media player. The Froozbox link source is <a href="file:///E%3a%2fVideo%2fElite%20Squad%20%282007%29%208%2e1%20Disc%201%2eavi"..., which produces file:///E%3a%2fVideo%2fElite%20Squad%20%282007%29%208%2e1%20Disc%201%2eavi, which does nothing. So the problem seems to be the path is uuencoded in the source.

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I'm feeling a little sad for this feature. What, exactly, did you (nostra) have in mind, considering you've already provided for the export of HTML reports (which can then be printed)?

There's more interest in this now, but I'm still not sure what users think they want when they ask for "printing." Print what? A screen shot? The movie list? The details of the selected movie? Or is a full-featured report generator expected?

What timing! When I got your post, I had M-5.html and O-4.html open for editing. And I would have thought your change would do it, but...

As displayed in my status bar, the link seems to be okay: e.g., file:///E:/Viewed/Barbarian Invasions (2003) 7.8.avi.

If I click on it, or copy link location, however, it does this: file:///E%3a%2fViewed%2fBarbarian%20Invasions%20%282003%29%207%2e8%2eavi, which, of course, doesn't work.

You will see that the links themselves works if you manually enter the media URL in the "open" option...

So, yes, I now understand there's a difference between entering it "manually" and using the link. And that reminds me I have another issue to deal with—Firefox blocks links to local files. I've installed the Policy Manager add-on as a means to allow it for Froozbox.

I have fix the "active" link behavior so you can now see much better what is your current link selection.

Great. I'm sure others will appreciate not having to implement my solution.

The replace function is indeed case sensitive now, but I can change this behavior easily.

I'm sure if I were using this regularly, I would find occasion to want it both ways. Can you add an option, or provide two separate functions?

Nice documentation! And now I can see the search boxes from 10 feet.

I think there are just two issues in the way of Kroozbox being usable (i.e., operated at a distance with a remote) when run in a browser...

First, there is no highlighting of links to indicate where the cursor/mouse is. If links would change the same way they do on mouse-hover, that would suffice. Then making the movie titles (i.e., as they appear under posters) links instead of plain text would make those visible when selected too. I don't know about the navigation icons and search boxes—is there a HTML code that changes images on selection/mouse-hover?

Second, when a media link is selected, it returns http://my.ip:8008/&media=moviepath/filename.avi, which causes the browser to "download" the file which in turn invokes a virus scanner. It seems to me, if it just returned moviepath/filename.avi, the movie would be launched in it's associated player.

In Firefox, a workaround for the first issue is to add something like the following to the Stylish extension. This is borrowed from MoreFocus style—so please don't ask me how it works . I was able to figure out that by changing the url-prefix variable in the second line from http to http://my ip address:8008, the style is applied only to Kroozbox (it may be too annoying for general use).

@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);

@-moz-document url-prefix(http), url-prefix(file) {

/* NormalLink - hover */
*:link:hover   {
-moz-outline: 14px solid rgba(0,200,0,0.5) !important;
-moz-outline-offset: -14px !important;
/* -moz-outline-radius: 5px !important; */
}

/* FocusedElements & FocusedImages*/
:focus, :focus img {
-moz-outline: 12px solid rgba(255,255,0,0.5) !important;
-moz-outline-offset: -12px !important;
/* -moz-outline-radius: 5px !important; */
}

/* FocusedFormElements */
textarea:focus, input:focus, select:focus,button:focus, input[type="submit"]:focus
{
-moz-outline: 4px solid rgba(255,0,0,0.5) !important;
-moz-outline-offset: -2px !important;
/* -moz-outline-radius: 5px !important; */
}

/* HoveredFormElements */
textarea:hover:not(:focus), input:hover:not(:focus), select:hover:not(:focus),button:hover:not(:focus), input[type="submit"]:hover:not(:focus)
{
-moz-outline: 4px solid rgba(0,255,0,0.5) !important;
-moz-outline-offset: -2px !important;
/* -moz-outline-radius: 5px !important; */
}

/* Disables inner border in button */
*::-moz-focus-inner {border: 1px dotted transparent !important;}

}

I am unsure of what you want to accomplish...

So am I. It's a challenge to get my mind around what these things do and how they might be used. So I thought it might be illuminating to "try to use it under" XBMC. I wasn't able to get it working—nor was I able to understand how it might "work." Isn't the purpose of Kroozbox the same as XBMC? I could understand the idea of XBMC having a plugin to do the same thing as Kroozbox—pull data from a PVD database—but not Kroozbox "running under" XBMC.

I wonder if this is the same as me thinking Kroozbox might run (under, with?) VLC media player. Both XBMC and VLC will run web servers. But I think in both cases the only purpose is to allow them to receive remote commands—their existence should not imply any capability beyond this.

Does this make sense, or am I underestimating what something like XBMC should be able to do with a UPnP service?

HOuuuu.. that's a tough one.

Hey, this is why I like making suggestions—I'm completely unencumbered by knowledge of how to do anything. 

...unless there is something in SQL...

I believe nostra has made a similar comment about Firebird's sorting/handling of special characters, so I suspect not.