Personal Video Database

Hi Rick and all,

 I have now successfully created a new database file .
 The movies ID's are the same than in the original corrupted database.

 The list of posters that I had generated from the corrupted database contains the name of the movie and the Internal ID.
 This internal movie ID is NOT the same in the new database, even after re-indexing.
 So imgid is unable to add the posters to my new file.
 I need to rename the image files in order to get them into my new database.

 From Buah's post http://www.videodb.info/forum_en/index.php?topic=1734.0 it looks like he is using the ID (and not the internal ID), so I am unsure about what ID I  should use when I rename the image files. Would you know?

 My main question however is HOW do I rename the files, I am completely useless when it comes to batch files and scripting, can you help me with detailed information?
 I am attaching two text files. The first gives you the list of movies with ID's and Internal ID's. The second gives you a list of the image files generated from the folder they are in.
 There are sometimes images that belong to the same film.
 What is the best way of doing this?

I am so glad I am moving away from using a corrupted database file, but I need these posters so bad, I had invested too much time in finding them!


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 By the way, to export I am not using the csv export plugin because it does not export the movie ID, so i use the xml export.
 I then convert the xml into a csv file.
 I will try to include the string you gave me into the xml export.

 No they were not, I did not know that, now I do not get the error message anymore thx.
 
 The problem now however is that it does not seem to match any poster to the entries.
 
 I have exported the ID from my old database so they should match the ID's in the image folder, right?
 Unless the ID's have changed during the re-import into my new database? Where can I find the ID of a movie in the database?

 NOTE: The image files are named as follow:  MOVIE NAME_ID.jpg
 

 Hi again,
 I am creating a new database by CSV importing from an existing database.
 The date added that appear in the new entries are not the ones I can find in my CSV file, would you know how to make sure that date added field is taking the value found in the csv file?
 
 Also, I have been using the comma delimiter since the file I use is a csv, but there are commas in descriptions, actors, etc. so the import tool will take these as delimiters. Would you know how to get around that?
 I have changed the settings in XP to use the ";" instead of the comma, but I guess that's a bit far fetched no?
 Any better solution would help.

Thank you all.

 The error was due to a long filename, PVD could not create it.
 
 Good to know that posters that are not saved in this process are lost though!

 Thanks for this Zacca, looks very nice on both my laptop and my big TV screen.

 This works great thank you 

 You're right, there are too many tags.
 Still if I want to watch a movie say on Palestine, the "palestine" tag will be there, while the tone will not.
 Is there a list of Allmovie tones somewhere?
 I guess it's up to me to choose what I prefer to use, thanks for the info.

 In terms of rating, I have noticed that If I want to add the Allmovie rating with your script I will have to add a custom field called "Allmovie rating". I would like to still use the original script way which is changing "additional rating" into "allmovie rating".
 Could you tell me what I need to change?

 I am using VLC on my TV, on which I plugged my multimedia PC.
 I had started by using MPC Home theatre and had followed a guide to optimize it for better image quality but I got tired of all the tweaks (different movies files with different qualities and encoding need different settings and adjustement). Also my (poor vision?) eyes cannot see much difference between a tweaked MPC rendering and a VLC rendering.

 HOWEVER, if there is something better (even if it is -only slightly- more complicated) out there please let me know.
 Rick, what player is J River MC using?

 

 Very nice, thanks for the script.