Personal Video Database

OK, seems i'm the only one missing such a feature, so i'll try to do my best with modifying that "import from text file" script.
i'm not a coder, so any starting guidance is welcome. are there any "pvd scripting for dummies" tutorial available?
i have a basic autoit/autohotkey, vbs and javascript knowledge, will i be able to do it? 

With a collection that large, you obviously need to be using the best software.

you're right 

I hope you'll stick around and help us beta test 0.9.9. It seems the multiple audio streams feature will be in the first beta release, and you'll probably find the beta version stable enough to use fairly soon. The auto image picking could wait—as this would most likely be done in "batch mode" by a script anyway.

i'll definitely "stick around" here, because i feel a potential in this app and i like many aspects of it. probably, it will be my last resort, once the needed features is added.

I think a script—rather than building it into the scanner—is probably the better solution. Once the image files are created, the function is no longer needed, as PVD becomes the source of the images (i.e., they are downloaded using PVD, then saved as filename.jpg from PVD). Given this workflow, a more useful feature would be the ability to export posters as filename.jpg rather than the current title.jpg. That would allow those of us who use this file scheme to keep it up-to-date.

partially agree. but in my case, i can't always pick the cover with PVD. just because many of my movies are rare and don't have posters or covers listed on famous sites. i have to hunt for covers in google images or even make the custom ones (especially for documentary tv rips). so, my workflow starts with image hunting anyway.

BTW, the Import from text file script "imports information from a text file that is located near video files with the same name and a .txt extension." Is it really applicable to this situation, or are you just saying it could be a starting point for creating a script that is?

i wanted to ask the same question btw, there's the script file itself? am i missing something? edit: oops, i was blind found it

first, thanks for the great application. it's probably the only app in this class, which supports unicode

but, i have a couple of questions/suggestions...

here's my scheme how i keep my movies (i'm shure, i'm not the only to keep them that way):

[en] Some Movie Title (2003).avi
[en] Some Movie Title (2003).jpg

[ru-en] Other Movie With Dual Audio Streams (2005).avi
[ru-en] Other Movie With Dual Audio Streams (2005).jpg

[ru] Original Movie Title in French _as listed in IMDB_ aka Translated Movie Title (1998).avi
[ru] Original Movie Title in French _as listed in IMDB_ aka Translated Movie Title (1998).jpg

AVI file here stands for the movie itself, and JPG is a dvd front cover or poster.
i'll keep them in a root of DVD media or HDD folder.

now the questions:

1) is it possible to pick the jpg _automatically_ (it's always the same as movie title, apart of ending in jpg, of course), when doing folder scan instead of downloading it from the net?

2) is it possible to parse the language tag in brackets [] to get them listed in database as language reference?

3) what about dual audio streams? how to list them? mediainfo.dll supports them, even pvd shows them after scanning file, but drops it imediately after saving the file and keep info only for the first stream.

4) is it possible to parse only original title (everything until word 'aka') and drop the translated title? because now it picks everything and of course fails to load info from net.

maybe some questions are already answered somewhere in a forum, but i couldn't locate the answers.