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Support / Re: Adding movies, etc.
« on: September 13, 2009, 07:39:41 am »
Quote from: rick.ca on September 13, 2009, 05:43:34 am
A title is needed 100% of the time if there is to be any hope of finding the record after it's saved.
No
It has a creation date and unique internal id so can readily be displayed and found.
Although the issue is, if a valid url to imdb is supplied, then there is no reason why PVD could not fill the other fields in (other than it does not currently support it).

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Support / Re: Adding movies, etc.
« on: September 13, 2009, 05:22:39 am »
Quote from: Anson on September 12, 2009, 05:00:41 pm
I tried creating a new record with only an URL and neither title nor original title, and it didn't work. on doing the "apply changes", the edit session was closed and nothing happened. the record was lost.
Agree this is counter intuitive & workarounds using dummy titles to create record without confusing PVD matching logic would just add to the confusion.
All other fields can be left blank, so if these are different, blank entries should generate a warning.

I suspect it is there because the pluggin assume a title is available. (eg create record, delete both titles & add url -> plugin errors).

A good solution / feature request would be supporting url in "add from clip board".

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Support / Adding movies, etc.
« on: September 11, 2009, 11:01:26 pm »
Quote from: Anson on September 11, 2009, 12:20:41 pm
The IMDB offers lots of fullsize pictures for movies, including posters, .....
Thus it should now be worthwhile to write poster plugins (for movies and also for people) for IMDB ...
Agree

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I created the new database by seleting "open..." and then typing "test" (lowercase). This resulted in a database to be created with the name "TEST" (uppercase, and more important: without suffix .PVD).
I suppose the filename that appears in the titlebar should include the extension, but—as is the Windows convention—all files have an extension whether one is specified or not. If you check in Windows Explorer, you'll see your file is named TEST.PVD (and it's backup will be TEST.PVD.BAK). If you reload the file, I'm sure the extension will appear in the titlebar.

sorry, you are wrong.
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hehe, a question for endless discussion: what would be the "suffix" on the name "TEST.PVD.BAK"? would it be a name "TEST.PVD" with suffix "BAK" or a name "TEST" with suffix "PVD.BAK"? *I* would say neither, but a filename "TEST.PVD.BAK" with no suffix, since my windows has no file association defined for any of those two suffixes (pvd.bak or bak)
Behaviour depends on if windows is configured to show known suffixes or not.
If it is configured to show suffixes, then you need to enter them. If it is configured to hide known suffixes then application defaults are generally applied.

File type (suffix) is always the characters after the last period "." (but you may need to configure windows to show it to see it).

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Support / 0.9.9.14 Replace folders in file path
« on: September 10, 2009, 02:18:08 pm »
In PVD -> Tools -> preferences -> Folders
I'm having difficulty using this feature with the current software.
I can enter the string to find.
But I can't select the field containing the string to replace it with.

Tried both vista & windows XP machines, same problem.

Is it just me or is this a bug?

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Feature Suggestions / Re: Client For PDAs(Iphone,Windows,Symbian)
« on: August 22, 2009, 01:31:47 pm »
Quote from: conmac7 on August 22, 2009, 08:58:31 am
Is it possible to make a client-viewer for iphone and for other OS based portable devices?
Export to html then view that from the iPhone
Alternatively feed the PVD to a web server application then view that from the iPhone

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Support / Re: Difficulty importing a TV Show/Series (others work)
« on: August 11, 2009, 12:24:08 pm »
Quote from: RedDunce on August 11, 2009, 12:45:06 am
C:\Users\Administrator\Documents\Torrenting\Completed\Video\TV\Burn Notice\Season 2\Burn.Notice.S02.E01_[Breaking.and.Entering].avi
See http://www.videodb.info/forum_en/index.php?topic=1168.0

The standard regex expressions use the file name not the path and do not allow any character between series "S02" and episode "E01"
Solutions to both are given in the above topic. I think the entry you want is
Code: [Select]
(?i)^.*\\(?P<title>[^\\]*)\\Season (?P<season>[0-9]{1,2})\\[^\\]*?\bs([0-9]{1,2})[ .x]{0,2}e(?P<episode>[0-9]{1,2})\b[ .-]*(?P<epititle>[^\\]*)$
Note
1) The part in bold allows a space, period, or character "x" between series "S02" and episode "E01"
s([0-9]{1,2})[ .x]{0,2}e(?P<episode>[0-9]{1,2})\b

2) The early part of this regex takes the series name and season number from the file path "\Burn Notice\Season 2\" rather than the usual file name
\\(?P<title>[^\\]*)\\Season (?P<season>[0-9]{1,2})\\
Which matches the following series of elements
A "\" character followed by
Any number of character not a "\", storing this in the variable <title> followed by
A "\" character followed by
The string "Season " followed by
A 1 or 2 digit number, which is stored in the <season> variable, followed by
A "\" character

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Feature Suggestions / Re: include episodes in simple search results
« on: August 10, 2009, 08:00:35 am »
Quote from: Marc on August 09, 2009, 03:09:26 pm
Both of these suggestions are problematic for me. I prefer to sort my titles by ID (which in my case corresponds the purchase date), so ordering by titles is not ideal, even if it would solve my box problem.
If ID was enhanced to support a suffix or decimal values, would that solve your problem? Basically this would give you the ability to manually add movies between existing movies in your series.

More generally adding a user defined prefix & suffix (then sort on the 3 fields in turn) maybe a general solution to this problem allowing support multiple shelves of discs & later addition between existing records.

Quote from: Marc on August 09, 2009, 03:09:26 pm
Plus, having imported my collection from another program, the 'date added' is the same for all titles. Maybe I can re-import the collection and port my 'purchase date' over to the 'date added' field?
Could well be the best solution for you depending on how much manual work you have done on your PVD database.

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Support / Re: Old Database Does Not Work
« on: August 09, 2009, 02:15:02 pm »
Quote from: nostra on August 07, 2009, 02:02:13 am
I'll try to fix the problem, but I am not really sure if I can change this behavior from my side. The -portable switch will change nothing in this situation.
I had assumed it was a problem with how firebird prevents multiuser access, thus outside of your control.

Quote from: obi on August 06, 2009, 01:16:59 pm
With the process monitor from sysinternals I found out, that PVD (started as user2) tries to open the file “D:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\User1\Anwenderdaten\Personal Video Database\pvdconf.ini”
Access to pvdconf.ini gave me some hope though as I thought this was more likely to be from PVD than firebird, but I could well be too optimistic.

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Feature Suggestions / Re: include episodes in simple search results
« on: August 09, 2009, 02:05:29 pm »
Quote from: Marc on August 09, 2009, 11:17:53 am
Hmm, it seems I have misunderstood the purpose of Personal Video Database. My intent is to use it as a DVD (and Blu-ray) database,
Different people use it different ways. I believe others with similar need have found it suitable.

Quote from: Marc on August 09, 2009, 11:17:53 am
Anyway, my idea of a box set feature looks the same and works the same as episodes work: you enter a new movie which is the DVD box set (so it's not a new movie you enter, but a DVD), and then you add the movies that the box contains in the same way as you would add episodes. The difference being that the box is just a group name, and the movies behave just like regular movies (in searches and such).
You can use it this way but it is not really how it was intended to be used, which is why you are finding it doesn't quite behave as expected. Series is designed for TV shows which have a defined structure coded so as to link data source & internal database. It is hard enough to get it working without trying to make it do more again.

I agree the structure looks tempting though.
Have you tried editing the title (not original title) to reflect the box it comes from. If you prefix the title by the box description, box content will appear together when sorted by title (you just loose the collapsing list). It is how I solve the problem in my database.

Quote from: Marc on August 09, 2009, 11:17:53 am
In my case they need ID's because that's how my collection is ordered: I entered every movie based on the date of purchase, so old movies have a low number, new movies a high one. Since I can't sort the collection by purchase date (this is a custom field), I rely on the ID's. Hence your solution doesn't work for me.
Have you tried the date added sorted display.

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Feature Suggestions / Re: include episodes in simple search results
« on: August 09, 2009, 03:01:18 am »
Quote from: rick.ca on August 09, 2009, 02:07:36 am
Also, it seems behind such requests is a desire to put the published media ahead of it's content. One of the fundamental characteristics of PVD that sets it apart from other similar applications is that it's a movie database, not a DVD database. Many of us are not interested in recording information about DVD's or box sets. We're only interested in information about the movies (and series and other types of video) themselves.

Rick take care. We realize you use PVD a specific way, however yours is not the only way.

Back on topic.
Much of the capability required for this type of grouping could probably be achieved via custom fields with tree view display. The issue with this approach would be where movies not in such series are sorted.

It would be nice to be able to enter the movie series name when it is in a series. Then display movies by name or with movie series grouped. With movies not in a series, sorting by movie name instead would be appropriate. The existing episode series capability to show only series is also nice. To achieve this a custom movie series field, which could be displayed in tree view, and with a default sorting value if blank configurable to be "title" or "original title" would be good.
I modify the title to achieve similar grouping but clearly that is not as flexible and does not provide any addition series specific fields, although I do not need any.
Rick I thought you used another field for similar grouping.

With movies grouping by unit purchased ie box set, similar grouping options would be appropriate except the series the user entered would be say "Matrix 1,2,3 box set". Again movies not in boxes / series should display as movie title. 
With this approach I have added no additional fields for box set information. I'm interested in what if any information of this type other would require (I don't need any).

For movies filed by box / shelf / folder. Then the default value should be the next in the current series. I'm guessing a user defined prefix and start counter with PVD incrementing the counter with each movie added would be the sort of thing most users would want. Note this is similar to the existing capability except I have added a user defined prefix. I store my movies on hard disc so will need to defer to those with a larger physical library for guidance here.


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Feature Suggestions / Re: include episodes in simple search results
« on: August 09, 2009, 12:22:53 am »
Quote from: Marc on August 08, 2009, 08:32:55 pm
Of course, the real solution would be a new feature that lets you properly catalogue box sets. I'm sure that will probably be added in the future, but in the meantime, maybe a tiny modification of the episode feature could be a temporary solution?
I can see merit in your goal, not so keen on the work around.
What you are describing is a custom way of grouping movies. This is applicable for
1) The way you bought the movies - box sets etc
2) Series of related movies - Matrix, Harry potter, James Bond, etc
3) How movies are stored - rack, shelf etc

If nostra is going to spend time updating the code, aiming to a planned goal, rather than a work around would be prefered.
Perhaps we could look at ways this could all fit together in a general way.

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Support / Re: Old Database Does Not Work
« on: August 06, 2009, 11:08:53 pm »
Quote from: rschip2 on July 14, 2009, 03:38:38 am
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Have you had any luck with fixing the issue?  I downloaded the portable install as well with no luck.

I was  using version 0.9.8.20, tried out beta version 0.9.9.40 (i think), but went back to 0.9.8.20. I backed up my file repeatedly, but the back up I need has been touched by the beta, and won't work.

Sounds as if you would have benefited from some warning which hopefully will be available in the future http://www.videodb.info/forum_en/index.php?topic=1241.msg4759#msg4759

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Support / Re: Old Database Does Not Work
« on: August 06, 2009, 11:02:53 pm »
Quote from: rick.ca on August 06, 2009, 06:56:00 pm
I don't know of any specific reason why it wouldn't work, but I wonder if the program is intended to be run using a different configuration file for each user...

Rick, PVD is recording location information in it's database file. Moving the database to a new user results in it sometimes accessing the old users data (ie uses absolute addresses). This trips an access violation. See http://www.videodb.info/forum_en/index.php?topic=969.msg3888#msg3888

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Support / Re: Old Database Does Not Work
« on: August 06, 2009, 02:32:07 pm »
Quote from: obi on August 06, 2009, 01:16:59 pm
I hope, this give a hint to solve the problem. I am very interested in a solution. Because in our family each one has his own user account (without administrativ privileges) and the PVD shoud be usable by each family member.
+1
Well done. Have the same problem and has been present for some time.

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Support / Re: Change File Names + Tag Movies
« on: August 04, 2009, 11:21:40 am »
Quote from: Pezmc on August 03, 2009, 10:59:03 pm
Is there a way that I can actually tag movie details (from PVD) such as Title, Subtitle, Year and Genre into the actual movie files (like if you right click and manually get this info in Windows) so that it is ALSO embedded within the movie file. This means that media center can read the information PVD has collected.
Have a read of http://www.videodb.info/forum_en/index.php?topic=870.40
And http://www.videodb.info/forum_en/index.php?topic=1249.msg4630#msg4630

What you are after is more efficient communication between PVD and media centre.
Achieving this through internal tags (similar to mp3) I agree would be a good way of doing it.
The problem is tags are not as widely supported / standardised in movie formats as they are in music formats.
In particular the tag reader used by PVD does not support tag writting.

An alternative approach is to code direct communication between PVD & your other movie playing software. Which maybe a more effecient way of linking 2 programs but requires different code for each pair of applications.

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Support / Re: Bulk data entry
« on: August 02, 2009, 01:52:33 pm »
Quote from: pencilhead on August 02, 2009, 11:11:46 am
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Also, should you not be importing File Path at the same time? Then you would be able to Play or Read file information after inserting the DVD, but would not have scan the entire DVD.
I'm not entirely sure what you mean by this??

My understanding is filepath is used if you have ripped versions of movies on your hard disk or network.

If you have movies stored this way then using
"Tools" -> "Scan folders for new movies / changed paths..."
becomes the an efficient way of entering your movies in PVD most the time.

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Support / Re: Bulk data entry.
« on: July 31, 2009, 02:00:19 pm »
Quote from: pencilhead on July 31, 2009, 01:30:16 pm
If I use the new (Ctl+N), the newley created list is at the top, but I find I have to click in the right hand side, enter the movie name/year. Ctl+Enter to save. Ctl+N - click the right hand side, enter the movie name/year.Ctl+Enter to save etc etc. if I forget to click in the right hand side, My list at the top is lost (merged in with already completed movies and I have to filter as per above).
Have you tried sorting your movies by data added
Works well provided you add only one set per day, after which it does get a little less intuitive (data field is to 1 day resolution)
Alternatively use an advanced search such as "url" "does not contain" "www"

For bulk field entry you could just do it in excel then import your typing

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Talk / Re: Guidelines for this forum
« on: July 28, 2009, 12:07:13 am »
Quote from: pencilhead on July 27, 2009, 02:08:26 pm
What are the guidelines for this forum?

Anyone disagreeing with rick.ca has their posts removed....
I have not had problem with my post removed here yet but rick is very active and rather strong minded which can make it difficult to suggest a view different to his.
I tend to just give up, and I suspect others do the same which I suspect reduces the breath of opinions expressed here.

Of course on balance rick contributes a lot to this forum & is generally positive & appreciated.

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Feature Suggestions / Re: Have new windows not lock main screen (Non-modal mode)
« on: July 27, 2009, 11:35:15 pm »
Quote from: nostra on July 27, 2009, 09:04:59 pm
Of course it is possible to make PVD act like this, but considering the fact that I do not really understand why Title, Original title and Year (which are shown in the selection dialog) are not enough for proper movie selection and that implementation of it will indeed need more than trivial coding, this new behavoir will not be implemented any time soon. Sorry  :-\

I will have to check, but for me the year is often not available when being asked to choose poster during scan folder. Will see if a can characterise when.

In the scan folder screen, adding the ability to open containing folder would help me (sometimes I need to look at files near the movie file such as nfo file, poster or watch start of movie) to be sure which imdb record I would like to link it to.

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Feature Suggestions / Re: Have new windows not lock main screen (Non-modal mode)
« on: July 27, 2009, 05:27:42 am »
Quote from: pencilhead on July 27, 2009, 01:57:11 am
I believe all that needs to be done is for the popup box to be open in non-modal mode. This will allow interaction with the main screen while the popup is open.
+1
Provided it does not add significant complexity to the code.

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