| Registered: January 11, 2008 | | Posts: 1 |
| | Posted: | | | | I am a over the road truck driver. The first thing I do when I purchase a new dvd is convert it to a .avi file for ease of transport. I currently have 1600+ movies on my truck on a 2 terabyte drive. I would love to see a plugin or full feature that would scan the drive for new .avi files and add them to the database.
I tried another dvdcatalog program that did this but it was to redundant on adding them to the collection. |
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| Registered: June 3, 2007 |  Posts: 333 |
| | Posted: | | | | DVDProfiler is for cataloging DVDs, not movies per-se. I am not sure how something like that would work in terms of the current product.
I doubt it would be possible to identify or add an entry to the product based simply on a new .avi file. There would be no way to identify the film (There would be no UPC or Disc ID) so it could not add a profile.
My suggestion would be to add the DVD normally through the software and use the notes field to point to your .AVI file. You might be able to use the location field, but I don't know what the size limitations on that are. |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 3,830 |
| | Posted: | | | | could be wrong about this, but .avi does not have any tags in, like mp3's have. This could become tricky figuring out what content is in the avi file? not quit what your asked for: New Plugin: LoadDVD - Open / Play Media and Disc Changer Supportyou can link in each profile (dvd) a media file and have it played from within DVD Profiler. Only thing you have to do is link the profile with the avi file it has to play. Read the thread, look if it's suites you and try with some files the see if it is realy that what you want. | | | | 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: March 18, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 6,456 |
| | Posted: | | | | Following up from Giga, if you want to use LoadDVD, you could create a script to make a CSV Import file like this (this is the CSV Export plugin format):
"Profile ID","Location - 1","Notes"
"025192092220","file","[filepath]h:\mymovies\02192092220.avi[/filepath]"
"786936763331","file","[filepath]h:\mymovies\786936763331.avi[/filepath]"
"786936292992","file","[filepath]h:\mymovies\786936292992.avi[/filepath]"
Use BulkEdit to load the CSV and it will create the Profiler entries for you, ready to play from LoadDVD. To finish getting all the cover art and other goodies, type "Collection/Flagged/Refresh" immeditely after you finish the BulkEdit import and it will be automatically downloaded. Of course those numbers are the UPC of the DVD. If you know about localities, you can actually use the upc.locality instead of just upc to get the correct data during refresh.
So now all you need is a script to scan for the avi files, assuming you have a naming scheme that relates to the UPC, as mentioned by Snark. If you don't know how to write that script, ask for it and maybe one of the many script wiizards around here will give it a go. | | | Thanks for your support.
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