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Support / Re: How to avoid localized/translated movie titles with the IMDB plugins
« on: October 17, 2010, 04:56:35 pm »
At the IMDB movie and IMDB people plugins configuration, the checkboxes at the "Overwrite fields when importing data..." seem to be three state checkboxes. By default, these checkboxes are shown unchecked, with a blue background. But they are neither checked or unchecked, as I can check it, then uncheck it, and then turn it "unchecked blue". Does the "unchecked blue" state have any meaning?

I tried some combinations of checked/unchecked titles and original titles but this seems to not affect how the "full bio" is imported from IMDB.

The IMDB site preferences approach you suggested worked. Thank you.

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Support / [SOLVED] How to avoid localized/translated movie titles with the IMDB plugins
« on: October 16, 2010, 04:09:45 am »
After the introduction of the new style of interface on IMDB, that website started to show the movie titles automatically localized, i.e., in my local language (Portuguese), probably detecting my localization by GeoIP (I guess). Logically, PVD IMDB Movie and people plugins are also capturing localized titles for the movies. I want those plugins to get always the original title in its original language, is there anything I can do about it on my side?

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Support / Re: Duplicating behaviour on creating new movies in PVC 0.9.9.21
« on: October 02, 2010, 11:07:59 pm »
Quote from: rick.ca on October 02, 2010, 10:11:24 pm
Sorry, I wasn't clear enough. The check boxes are only for creating duplicate records. Don't use them at all. Select the item (not the check box!) in the list and click OK, or just double-click it.

PERFECT! It was so simple, yet I was not seeing it! Thank you very much for your patience, rick.ca!

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Support / Re: Duplicating behaviour on creating new movies in PVC 0.9.9.21
« on: October 02, 2010, 08:43:51 pm »
Thank you for the fast replies, CAD and rick.ca.

The problem is Im absolutely sure that I am identifying correctly the movie by double clicking on it at the list of possible matches (the checkbox is getting checked, so to overwrite). But Im still trying to understand why PVD duplicates the movie: In my previous example, I create a new movie at a new, empty database, and I am positively sure that I selected the correct movie at the list os possible matches. But no matter how I select it (by checking its checkbox and clicking OK, or by triple-clicking the item on the list), A duplicate movie is created, and I end up with two instances of the same movie on my movie list pane.

The only way I could avoid the automatic creating of the duplicate movie was by informing the IMDB URL field before importing movie information, as rick.ca suggested. But, is this the expected behaviour of PVD then? There is nothing I can do to avoid the duplication without using the URL field?

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Support / [SOLVED] Duplicating behaviour on creating new movies
« on: October 02, 2010, 02:07:21 pm »
Im using 0.9.9.21 and Im trying to understand why sometimes I create a new movie by hand in the PVC database, it gets duplicated after I import movie information.

For example: I create a new movie with CTRL+N, and type at the second top field '20000 leagues under the sea'. I apply the changes, and then I select that movie and click on Import > Get movie information from IMDB.com and Allmovie.com. PVC then does its magic, ask me to select the movie on a big list of similar names and gets all information. But when it finishes, I have a second new movie in the left list pane! That '20000 leagues under the sea' is there with some of the information *AND* there is a second new movie created with the corrected title '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea' (corrected case/punctuation original title). Also, some fields appear only at the first movie, and some others, only at the second movie.

Is there any way I can avoid this, by consolidating all data and all fields collected on that first movie I created?

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Feature Suggestions / First suggestions - about Posters
« on: October 02, 2010, 01:31:21 pm »
This is my first post, and a big thank you is due for this magnificent piece of software that Personal Video Database is. Thank you to everybody involved with the project!

After my first experiments with PVC, the first suggestions came to mind:

- It would be great to have a poster import plugin that searches and import posters from google images. I collect mainly old classics and film noir, and I prefer to use the original film lobby poster, and sometimes the only place you can find the original lobby poster is in google images.

- It also would be great to be able to copy and paste an image directly into the film view pane as the poster. And/Or drag and drop an image directly from a browser or other program to the film view pane.

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