Personal Video Database

I like rick.ca's idea also.  I have been having a lot of trouble getting posters from amazon, and their quality is generaly getting worse.  I have only just started using tmdb and it seems quite good, except it currently takes too long when it decides I need 21 posters for a single movie.

craig

Was curious if anyone collects fanart from themoviedb.org or thetvdb.org with pvd?  Is this possible with pvd automagically? 

I am not too fussy about what image I get for most of the movies so something quite automatic would be best.  Obviously, if something exists that gives me choices for some series or movies I care about would be good, but a silent mode would be best for most.

I am not in a rush at the moment as I use Jriver MediaCenter and it doesn't let me use them easily at the moment so curious if it is something in the pipeline for pvd. 

Do I need to step outside pvd temporarily for this task (thinking that with the imdb address I have a good starting point).  Should I instead try to modify the existing scripts (not sure if I am up to the task)?

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Craig

Thanks Nostra,

I was hoping there may have been a general setting somewhere as I have a quite a few series to update.  Not the end of the world though. Something to consider in the new version??

Thanks again.

Craig

that is good news!!!!  thanks.

Happy to stand corrected as I haven't dug too deep yet, but I think the .tag file is more than just a simple XML file as images can be embedded into it and it appears to be a binary type file when I opened one.  The example in the post was to an .nfo file that someone was considering converting via the perl scripts available (this source may have the code Nostra needs to create the file within PVD??).

If creating a .tag export function is not worth the effort, there may be a work around by creating a MyMovies xml file that the Netgear unit can read.  To this end, has anyone written a mymovies xml template yet to save me the effort? edit: mymovies.xml could be an intermediate step but would apparently introduce a need for manual conversion and thus not preferred.


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Craig

Really not the right forum etc, but hoping that those that love the virtues of PVD can point me towards the equivalent for ebooks.  Something that can scrape names for author and name, something that can access metadata if it exists, handle a lot of different formats, scrape photos and other background and reviews from amazon or similar.

If there are no suggestions, does anyone think I could shoehorn books into PVD or have thought about something similar (I would probably then use pvdimport to get it into jriver as I do for movies).

Nostra, ever thought of a book version?


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Craig

using Movies ->Automatically create screenshots with directshow as preference setting: no images are returned.
using Movies ->Automatically create screenshots with ffdsho as preference setting: program does nothing with information bar at the bottom reading "Screeenshot maker .... Creating screenshots for xyz... Cancel (on the far right).  Clicking cancel causes no response, program appears largely dead.

Manual screenshot maker does work for both preference settings.

Thanks

Craig

PS Can you change teh thread title to "Stupid computer won't let me install a very useful program for no apparent reason but has changed its mind"

Hi,
I tried running the v18 installer but it throws message that it has detected a version of pvd currently running.  but there is nothing running, nothing shows in task manager.  also tried stopping firebird service with no luck.

any suggestions?

thanks

craig

[edit: w7 32bit, currently v17, also using pvdimport with mc and thus have firebird server (whichever is latest version??)]

Thanks Nostra, all working in v17

Your original assumption is correct.  The crash happens during the first phase when it is scanning the folders.  I can see the directories being scanned and the last directories I see start with the letter T and then it crashes (The Hurt Locker I presume is the last).  I don't get to the dialog box.

I can't see anything strange with the permissions or setting of the mkv file causing the problem. 

I guess PVD is only doing a scan of the name on the first pass, but it then must also be doing some comparison with what it has in the database to know how to display it in the subsequent dialog box, and I am guessing this is where the problem comes from.  For it was when I manually edited the existing path to point to the mkv file and not the (now) non-existent m4v file that the problem went away.  I suppose the comparison is a perfect match and not just similar and for some reason it works.

I am now at work, so can't try this myself, but I am wondering if I go to any file currently in the database and rename it from MMM.avi to MMM.mkv (or any other permutation of extensions) and then do the scan, will it recreate the error?

Craig

PS: I did think I had at one point renamed The Hurt Locker (2008).mkv to delme.mkv and it still got upset.  That would indeed be odd.  Will check again later.



Craig