Personal Video Database

Great. We now have three (including allmovie at web.archive.com) sites with the same information.

I tested a sample of my AllRovi URL's and they all still go to AllRovi. So hopefully 10 Things I Hate About You being redirected to this new site is just an exception.

It's unfortunate you're required to transfer the data via XML. If he knew how, it would be simple matter for the Roksbox developer to access the PVD database directly and extract the desired data. With such integration, it would monitor the database for changes and update Roksbox automatically. Search for "PvdImport" to see how this has been done for JRiver Media Center.

It seems odd Roksbox is incapable of displaying all movies. Maybe that's something you should be asking them about. In the context of PVD, adding an additional genre to those downloaded is a rather unusual requirement and therefore unlikely to be accommodated. If adding an 'All' value to Genre for all movies is the only solution, you could do so by exporting Genre to Excel, adding 'All' to the existing values, then re-importing.

Are you sure you shouldn't be using Multilevel Video Subcategories in Roksbox? If those allow you to select items at any level, then an easier solution might be an XML export which creates something like Movies/[Genre]—so you can select 'Movies' to get all movies.

I was wondering if there is any way to have a Genre added to a movie when it is imported.

I don't think so. For what purpose?

Select 'Download image' in the plugin configuration and set the overwrite option for 'Poster'.

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Thanks!

Guess I will have to wait until someone "fix" it for zcolor skin.

The original author may have preferred not to stretch images. If you do, change <poster autosize="true"/> to <poster autosize="true" stretch="true"/>.

I didn't forget about that. Will be addressed soon...

Thanks. No rush. I'm more interested in understanding the method of skipping empty fields, so I can make modifications as the need arises.

If you put a "www" in front of the URL it works ...

Now that's interesting. Maybe the fix is an easy one.

Welcome to the forum.

Starting from scratch, there are different ways such a thing can be done. I'll assume you've already added the series and it's episodes to your database using an import plugin (e.g., IMDb,  TVDb). If your DVD has been ripped so each episode is in a separate file, the next step is to associate those files with they're respective episode records. Just so you know, that can be done manually—by entering the [File Path] for each. But the easier way is to use Tools > Scan folders... to do the same thing automatically. For that to work, your files have to be named according to some consistent pattern that includes the series name, season and episode number (e.g., Series title S01 E01.mkv). Then your configuration (at Preferences > File Scanner) must include a Regular Expression that matches that pattern (e.g., (?i)^.*\\(?P<title>.*)(s|\b)(?P<season>[0-9]{1,2}) ?e(?P<episode>[0-9]{2,3})). I don't expect you to understand the latter, but have a look and try to determine if that's the problem. Also, let us know what file name pattern you're using.