Some kind of major update...
Nostra is chained to the oars with version 1 development... I'd like to say thanks and, again, want to contribute something:
Changes in the "HTML Frames"-template:
- added: "category" will be exported
- added: if you click on the button "Further options" you now can switch between (localized) movie title and original movie title
But the major addition to the "HTML Frames"-template is a small executable called "pimpHTMLframesExport.exe". You will find it within the exported data in subfolder:
\[exported filename]_files\pimpHTMLframesExport\
If you run pimpHTMLframesExport.exe it will add additional features to the exported files.
Links will be added for genres, categories, countries, director names, actor names, and audio track languages, if different ones appear in two or more exported entries. So afterwards you can click an actor's name, for example, and get a list of all movies within your exported data where this name appears (as actor). This is not so very different to the behaviour in Personal Video Database itself.
Depending on the amount of exported data there will be a few thousand additional (but predominantly very small) HTML-files, all residing in the subfolder
\[exported filename]_files\.
Just one note:
If your database is really huge and with full actor lists, meaning a total of a trillionzillion different actors in your database, it might take a long time and lots of memory and virtual memory for pimpHTMLframesExport.exe to analyze the data. Try to be patient, but if you run into any problems (program crashes, stalls, etc.), please let me know. With my database containing more than 1200 entries and 15 to 30 actors per entry everything went fine and didn't take a long time. Theoretically it should withstand some 4 billion different(!) actor names in total. I would guess at some point earlier memory size and the size of Windows' swap file might become a limiting factor. But I'm completely unsure if someone could ever run into that. So if someone has a huge database... save all data, documents, and whatever you were working at, first
and give it a try. Then let me know what happened. (But don't make me responsible for exploded computers
)
Additional to that feature: filters will be added (to the "further options"-menu) for genre, category, and language, if there is sufficient data. (If you don't use category at all, for example, and the field stays empty throughout your database, a category filter would make no sense. So there must be two ore more categories, elsewise no category filter will be added.)
Some of the additional features will only appear if javascript is enabled in your browser.
pimpHTMLframesExport.exe should be run on freshly exported data (meaning only once on the exported data). Afterwards (or if you don't intend to run pimpHTMLframesExport.exe at all) you can safely delete the subfolder "pimpHTMLframesExport".
