DVD Profiler [Archive] - Charmed Quark Systems

Dean Roddey

06-01-2007, 10:57 AM

I was planning on doing the import utility based on the 3.0 export format. But I can't figure out where the images are stored. If V3 has moved the cover art into some database along with the other data, then we won't be able to support V3 really. Am I just missing something here?

jrunde

06-01-2007, 03:07 PM

Here is where I found them on my system:
C:\Documents and Settings\Jay\My Documents\DVD Profiler\Databases\Default\Images

Dean Roddey

06-01-2007, 04:02 PM

OK, yeh, Mark had already pointed me in the right direction. I've got the importer parsing the DVDP 3.0 format now, or at least it seems to be doing it correctly. I pretty much completely re-structured it. It's a little less efficient now but much simpler and easier to maintain. The same code will be going back into the DVDP driver as well, so it was worth doing it right.

It's just going through the motions of actually uploading the data to the repository still. I'll now make sure I've got the data formatted correctly and then add the code to upload it and see how it goes.

ellisr63

06-01-2007, 05:21 PM

Dean, since 3.0 supports Collections will it work ok when it is imported into CQC?
tia,
Ron

Dean Roddey

06-01-2007, 05:42 PM

Not sure what you are asking there...

ellisr63

06-02-2007, 07:36 AM

The old DVD Profiler did not support collections and until the CQC Media Player was released there was no way to play collections.. Now DVDProfiler 3 actually lists DVDs in a collection. So when the new driver is used will the collections be displayed like they are with the CQC Media player?

Dean Roddey

06-02-2007, 09:59 AM

DVD Profiler always supported multiple discs in a set, and the DVDP driver supported that. Maybe you mean J.River?

ellisr63

06-02-2007, 03:06 PM

This is a new feature...now they actually have a setting feature called collection and you can link all the cds in the collection to a title without a number. It is different then doing a multidisc DVD.

Dean Roddey

06-02-2007, 04:15 PM

Oh, OK. Then that won't be supported. Effectively a multi-disc set is really equiv to a title set in our repository. That sounds more like a playlist for movies.

ellisr63

06-02-2007, 05:03 PM

Here is what they are doing...
This is what I get when I select edit for my Star Wars Collection..
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b344/rsxer63/StarwarsCollection.jpg
You will notice there is a box set button... when you select that you get...
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b344/rsxer63/BoxSet.jpg
Then you just select whatever DVD you have in your Collection that is part of the box set (each disc has a collection number, slot number and changer info already from when you added that disc)..
Whereas for the Bonus Disc you just add the DVD Slot Number and Changer info.

And here is the Edit for my Disc that has a bonus Disc...
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b344/rsxer63/BonusDisc.jpg

The Box set appers to be very close to the way CQC is doing the Media already.... I was hoping both would be supported.

Dean Roddey

06-02-2007, 05:44 PM

We don't really have another layer of hierarchy to use for that. We use title sets to hold the multi-disc titles. But there's nothing at a higher level than that.

penngray

06-03-2007, 10:13 AM

ellisr63

06-03-2007, 10:32 AM

I am still using the old DVd profiler.... I am also loading my DVds into the new 3.0 in preperation of the new CQC DVDProfiler driver. I am doing this because 3.0 allows me to have one large collection and then spit out Xml per changer. in the past I had to use 3 Xml files and 3 Dvdprofiler databases which gets confusing.

Dean Roddey

06-03-2007, 10:34 AM

You have to stick with 2.x until the next release comes out.

ellisr63

06-03-2007, 10:35 AM

So is this working, I upgraded this morning and now I can not see any of my DVDs....oops!! :(

Im going leaving and there are no movies for my family to select :(

Anything I can do to fix this in the next hour. I will try and find a backup but I had 5 new movies for my wife to use and I needed to upgrade to get them added.
Yes I noticed the same problem that you need the new to load... what I did was make a new DVd without Dvdprofilers database... which means you will only have a title or whatever you choose to manually input in the old DVdprofiler database.

penngray

06-03-2007, 10:43 AM

ellisr63

06-03-2007, 12:14 PM

I tried to add the new DVD titles manually into the old XML but I havent had much luck.

What is the xml check program that I can run to figure out what Im missing.

I have
<DVD>
<ID></ID>
<TITLE></TITLE>
<NOTES></NOTES>
</DVD>

What else do I need to make a basic entry. The thumbnail pics do exist since I downloaded them in 3.0. The ID should match the thumbnail jpg file correct?
Are you sure you are loading into your old Xml and not the one modified by 3.0? If you are using the old DVdProfiler you have to use the old Xml.. If you do that then when you add a new DVd you just do it like DVdprofiler has no record of it. You might be able to retrieve the images fromthe new database but I haven't tried that.

Hiller

06-04-2007, 04:41 AM

Dean,

I saw in your blog thingie that you had successfully imported your V3 db. Any chance you can release that? I tried to update my V2 collection last night and I think they killed the server because I couldn't connect. If that is the case then I'm stuck until we can do something with V3.

Also, when we do a movie import will it just append to a current repo? I only have music in my repo currently and I would like to import the movies I have from DVDP but don't want to kill all the music I have started to rip onto the server.

Thanks,
Steve

Dean Roddey

06-04-2007, 09:35 AM

You can run on a non-empty repo. It will just append to what's there. Youc an select to do either J.River or DVDP or both, so you'd just pick the DVDP and it would just fill in that side of it.

penngray

06-12-2007, 09:47 AM

Is there an update on when DVDP V3 xml files will work in CQC?

Dean Roddey

06-12-2007, 10:39 AM

It'll be in the next release, whenever that occurs. There's still a long list of small'ish to medium sized things that might get into the next release.

Helheim

11-10-2007, 03:29 PM

For some reason my DVDProfiler driver isn't loading everything in my collection. I've tried reloading it and everything but it's not picking everything up. How can I figure out why not?

http://dsw.ca/dvdprofiler01.JPG

Dean Roddey

11-10-2007, 03:32 PM

The most common reason, if it's file based, is that you didn't add the correct entries in the Notes section for the disks. See the DVDP driver docs for what that should be.

bph

11-10-2007, 08:15 PM

The most common reason, if it's file based, is that you didn't add the correct entries in the Notes section for the disks. See the DVDP driver docs for what that should be.

And make sure there are Disks defined for each DVD.

Dean Roddey

11-11-2007, 12:04 AM

Yeh, that's kind of part of what I was talking about, but I failed to say it explicitly. There has to be a disc defined in DVDP for the Notes entry to actually reference.

Helheim

11-11-2007, 11:16 AM

I had all the location information populated in the notes field but I missed this part from the driver page: "Sometimes there are no entries under the Discs tab. There should be but they aren't always there. Since this is what in the XML data tells the CQC driver what discs it should look for, if these are not there, then you will get no data in the CQC repository once you import the XML data."

Thanks.

Yeh, that's kind of part of what I was talking about, but I failed to say it explicitly. There has to be a disc defined in DVDP for the Notes entry to actually reference.

IVB

11-11-2007, 05:04 PM

I had all the location information populated in the notes field but I missed this part from the driver page: "Sometimes there are no entries under the Discs tab. There should be but they aren't always there. Since this is what in the XML data tells the CQC driver what discs it should look for, if these are not there, then you will get no data in the CQC repository once you import the XML data."

Thanks.

Yep, I have that issue with ~35% of the DVDs that I add, even under the latest version. I guess missing info is the price you pay for cheap (ie, user-contributed) metadata.

noshali

12-30-2007, 10:39 AM

Here is where I found them on my system:
C:\Documents and Settings\Jay\My Documents\DVD Profiler\Databases\Default\Images

When I go to the folder using file explorer the folder is empty. My dvd profiler is working fine.

Why is it showing as empty?
I am assuming it is hidden. How do I unhide it (if that is the case) in Vista.

regards,

EDIT: Found it. I had saved the database in my CQC folder in documents.