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| Registered: January 20, 2008 |  Posts: 37 |
| | Posted: | | | | Hi. I've recently gotten the new "Mission: Impossible - Ultimate Missions Collection" here in Norway on Blu-ray Discs. It's not added to the database yet, and I'm looking into contributing it myself. However I've stumbled upon a slight hick up. The box should be added as one profile, with three child profiles for each movie, as the rules specify for box sets. However, the rules say that for the child profiles one should use their own UPC if they have one, and the Disc ID if not.
So there's the problem right there; what if the discs DOESN'T have their own UPC's and you either don't have a BD-ROM or your BD-ROM refuses to retrieve the Disc ID? The latter is the problem on my part. I have a BD-ROM, but any BD I put into is not recognized by anything other than the BD software, and DVD Profiler just sees it as "Empty" if I try to get it to retrieve the Disc ID...
So then what? What should I use for UPC/ID for these child profiles? Can I use the UPC from the box set for these too? |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 3,830 |
| | Posted: | | | | Sorry you have to wait until the 3.5 (beta) will be able to contribute. 3.5 (beta should be able to read Blu-Ray disc-id, cannot contribute for now to online) | | | | Sources for one or more of the changes and/or additions were not submitted. Please include the sources for your changes in the contribution notes, especially for cast and crew additions. | | | | Last edited: by ? |
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| Registered: January 20, 2008 | | Posts: 37 |
| | Posted: | | | | Ok. But I might just have a solution for that then. If I install 3.5 (beta) on my computer with the BD-ROM, will the program change the database in any way? Or could I use that to retrieve the disc ID, then open the database on one of my other computers and contribute with 3.1 from there? |
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 5,459 |
| | Posted: | | | | Your database shouldn't be changed too much by simply using 3.5, however there are some new data fields and if you start using them, then revert to 3.1 all that data will be lost. The two programs also deal with film ratings differently, so you may find some changes to your profiles there too.
So there's nothing wrong with you installing 3.5 and creating profiles using BD disc IDs, however I would not advise that you try and contribute these from within 3.1 as we can't guarantee that the two versions treat disc IDs the same way, or that your profiles won't get corrupted in some way.
I'd say leave them in 3.5 and contribute them when we're allowed to. | | | | Last edited: by northbloke |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | I agree with, north. Be patient....al in good time.
Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,635 |
| | Posted: | | | | If you're having a problem with your Blu-ray drive reading Dis IDs see this THREADSpecifically, the post by 'Lewpy' about installing the UDF v2.50 " driver. With DVDP 3.5 installed, you should be able to read the Disc IDs into the disc id field. | | | | Hal | | | | Last edited: by hal9g |
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| Registered: January 20, 2008 | | Posts: 37 |
| | Posted: | | | | Thanks for all your input. I'll install the UDF driver for Windows XP (could be useful in any case), and just wait for 3.5 to be released before contributing this profile then. Unless of course the adding of the UDF 2.5 version magically makes 3.1 accept the Blu-ray Disc IDs too, but I guess that's been tested before.  |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 2,005 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting cartman76: Quote:
If I install 3.5 (beta) on my computer with the BD-ROM, will the program change the database in any way? Yes, if you open your database with 3.5, your database will be updated and you won't be able to open it in 3.1 anymore! Instead create another database, restore a backup of your collection to it and open that one in 3.5. But this will not help you to get the disc ID to 3.1. | | | 
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,459 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting TomGaines: Quote:
if you open your database with 3.5, your database will be updated and you won't be able to open it in 3.1 anymore! Has this happened to you? Every now and again I'll click the wrong shortcut and open 3.1 by accident - it messes my layout up but apart from that I've seen no detrimental effect to my database. Even data that 3.1 won't recognise (distributor and ratings info) is preserved and available once I'm back in 3.5. But you're right in that it's not something you want to do deliberately! Separate databases is a much safer bet.  | | | | Last edited: by northbloke |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,692 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting TomGaines: Quote:
Quoting cartman76:
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If I install 3.5 (beta) on my computer with the BD-ROM, will the program change the database in any way?
Yes, if you open your database with 3.5, your database will be updated and you won't be able to open it in 3.1 anymore!
Instead create another database, restore a backup of your collection to it and open that one in 3.5.
But this will not help you to get the disc ID to 3.1. bear in mind that as soon as you open the beta after you install it, it will try and use the last opened database that was used by 3.1 if you want to use a new version of the database, then the safest way is to install the beta on a separate computer, failing that, there are some scripts which you can run which will select a specific database and then open a specific version of dvd profiler. This is what I use - i.e two shortcuts - each one will load a different version of the database and program. So no danger of corrupting by opening the wrong version of the database. | | | | Paul |
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