Personal Video Database

Hi all,
I cannot explain to myself what is going on.
If I change the file path of a movie file, the title that is supposed to be displayed on the left of the page becomes blank.
See attached screen.
If I put back the initial file path the title stays blank.
Would you know what is going on?

 Hi all,

 I'm sorry for putting this on you Ivek23 but I have been dying for seeing a Rotten tomatoes ratings import for PVD.
 I cannot help to notice that you were able to fix the IMDB script so that it could take the IMDB ratings....
 Would you be able to do the same for RT ratings?

 I do not care about any other info coming from RT, only their ratings.

 I don't know if this can help you, but there is a Chrome extension that brings RT ratings into the IMDB page.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/imdbrt/dhmlipoakdghhhemjmefopbcdcobiphp
 If you install the extension, then go into your chrome extension manager you get access to the script (background html) it uses.

 I wonder if that script could not help you (or anyone here) to "transcript" it for PVD.

 I hope I am making sense, and I know this has been requested a while ago, but RT ratings are soooo much better than IMDB's that I constantly check them out on the IMDB page using the extension.

 It is perfectly OK for you to tell me to bugger off and delete that request 

 Thank you for your efforts (past and future).

 D.



 

 Hi all,

 I know it is possible in PVD to save a path to scan everytime PVD is started, but this is not a solution in my case because my movie folders are in different hard drives of a network computer. Also scanning them takes time and ressources so I really don't want to do this everytime PVD starts.

 I want however to scan them everytime I add movie files to that network computer. And the problem is that going through the "select directory or files" to select these hard drives far away in my network takes a long time. I have to select them one by one, and PVD scans them every time I tick the box next to them. The whole process of selecting them before the actual scan is about 6 minutes if I am fast.

 Hence my idea: Could there be a way in pvd to have these hard drives selected by default in a menu so that I only have to press a button to scan them whenever I need to do so?

 Thanks for listening.

D

 Hi all,

 I searched the forum for that suggestion and could not find it. Please delete that message if it was already proposed.
 In my process of adding movies into pvd, I am sometimes in need of a feature that could allow me to right-click a video file and select say "Add as a PVD entry".
 This would then generate a movie entry in PVD where the file path would automatically be filled.
 I guess the title also could be generated from the file name (or not).
 I guess in the case of 2 CD's movies, two files could be selected before right-clicking...?

 Thanks for listening.

OK I am going to be politically incorrect, rude and pushy, and ask the question that I am sure a lot of people here have in mind.........

When can we expect a new version from Nostra?

I know I shouldn't ask this, considering PVD is free for all of us (thank u thank u thank u), but I just can't resist!

 Whenever I want to see the trailer of a movie, I use the following Web search from within PVD:

 http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%s+trailer&aq=f%u

 95% of the times, the first video found on the youtube website is the trailer I was looking for, and Youtube is RICH in trailers.

 Isn't there a way (I'm not sure how best this could be integrated into PVD's interface) that this could be used to quickly watch the trailer of any of the movies in the database?
 I'm seeing an internal flash player that could play the trailer directly from PVD's interface?
 Or a direct link to the streaming video (that would have been grabbed by some kind of youtube scraper) that would directly open in VLC or any other player able to play streaming videos?
 I don't know I'm basically thinking of an improvement that would not require the opening of any browser to the youtube page.

 Just an idea.

 Hi all,

 what do you do when the file scanner suggestions are plain wrong?
 Just to give you a few examples:

 Filename: moon     file scanner suggestion: Change file path for "in the shadow of the moon"
 Filename: hair       file scanner suggestion: Change file path for "l'ecole de la chair"
 Filename: or         file scanner suggestion: Change file path for "American splendor"

I am bad at editing regex so what I am looking for are solutions that would stop these suggestions to pop back again when I scan another time.

When I click "ignore", what does it do exactly? does it "lock" the file for ever?

Thanks

 I have a fresh install of PVD (removed settings).
 I am trying to attach posters to a newly create database using IMGID and after pressing "process images" I get the error message "can't load library fbembed.dll"

 Nostra you might think this is related to the problem I was trying to solve recently but I am on a different computer with new install of PVD and a new database file (hence not corrupted and that opens with no tweaking needed)

 Note: I tried installing firebird and have the services running, I still get the error message...

 Thanks

 Hi all, because my corrupted database file cannot be fixed   I am working on an export/import process, in order to create a new clean database file.
 The first step for this is to have all my posters in a separate file, in order to later re-attach them to my database entries. I have read a few posts on this and I am hoping that I will be successful.
 The first problem I meet is when I save posters to a different folder.
 I have at the moment 5400 posters to be saved.
 So I go to Folders and selected a folder for images, and then untick the box "save images in database file", then click on OK, the program starts working on saving the posters.
 It will then give me an error message (I attached the bug report below).

 If I look at the posters folder, I can find there 2190 posters only, and not 5400, so the process has been stop by the error.
 By the way, the missing posters are then lost, they do not appear in the database file, and they are not in the posters folder.
 Thank God for inventing backups...

Would you help me understand and fix the error met in the process please?

 Thanks

 I was looking at my stats for languages and found out that most of my movies had no "language" information.
 However when looking at movie records I found a field called "Original language", and most of my movies have this info properly filled in.

 If you look at the screenshot you'll see that I have two "undefined" groups for languages. In these group, the movies have an "original language" filled in. I guess it is not recognised as being the "language" field.
 These "original language" informations are coming from imdb by the way, using the plugin.

 Also if you look at the example you will see that the original language is Bengali but it is in the "afrikaan" group. I guess this means that there is in that record a "language" field, not shown on the movie card, containing "afrikaan" value.

 How can I make this "language" field appear in the movie card? how can I check it is in the record? Do you know why it is called "original language"?

 

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