Save copy of video to local computer from remote location

[thenilerivr]

This is an awesome piece of software. I was tasked with writing database management software to catalog company videos and stumbled across this. It is way better than anything that I could have done and saved me a lot of time. I do have one suggestion that would really make it perfect for my application:

I keep my video files on a remote network location and run image processing algorithm testing on my computer. The files need to on my local computer before I can run the algorithm so that it can be done real-time. I currently use the open containing folder function and copy the file to my computer. It would be very nice to automate this step and have it grab a copy from the remote server and save it to a predefined folder on my computer. The dream feature would be to search for videos of interest (say it returns 10 videos) and then run a "Copy all open records" type macro that would copy each video to my local computer one by one. That way, I could start it and go home, come in the next to find all the files copied over.

I would think this would be nice too for a user that wants to copy a video from his network server to his laptop so he could watch the movie on an airplane or whatever.

If this seems to be a unique feature that you wouldn't consider doing without a donation, let me know and maybe we could figure it out.

[mgpw4me@yahoo.com]

The template system is probably the easiest way to do this.  The process would be something like this:
1) do your search
2) select video titles
3) execute a plain text export to create the copy commands
4) save output file with a '.bat' extension
5) if 'open file upon completion' is checked, the .bat file will be invoked, or you can execute it manually.

Here's a sample of an export template you can alter:

%OPTIONS%
filter="Text Files|*.txt"
encoding="UTF8BOM"
%OPTIONS%
mkdir "C:\Program Files\Apache\htdocs\DVDs\Movies\Snaps\{%value=title}"

Here's a link to the template documentation:
http://www.videodb.info/help/hlp_export.html

[CAD]

You could possibly drop the txt file created by export into teracopy or unstoppable copier.
teracopy supports command line.


eraCopy Command Line (v2.0+ only)

TeraCopy.exe Operation

• Source Target [/SkipAll] [/OverwriteOlder] [/RenameAll] [/OverwriteAll] [/NoClose] [/Close]
  
      * Operation: Copy|Move|Delete|Test|Check
      * Source: File or folder
      * *Source: Path to filelist
      * Target: Destination folder
  
  
  
  Examples:
  
      * TeraCopy.exe Copy "D:\My Documents" F:\Backup
      * TeraCopy.exe Copy D:\Video.avi C:\My Documents
      * TeraCopy.exe Copy D:\Data F:\Backup /OverwriteOlder /Close
      * TeraCopy.exe Move *C:\Temp\filelist.cmd C:\My Documents /OverwriteAll /NoClose
      * TeraCopy.exe Test D:\Video.avi
      * TeraCopy.exe Check D:\checksum.md5