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MrVideo,
Just a few notes from me.
I assumed that you had looked for a suitable filter in Profiler itself and not found one. That why I offered alternatives.
Here is how you select 3D profiles in ProfilerQuery in the Main selection tab:
This will show only the 3D profiles in the result. I just tested to make sure.
Saving to CSV (File / Save result to file) will save the same fields that you have defined in the Presentation tab, so the same fields you see in the result.
Lots of people have used ProfilerQuery without experiencing " a crapload of errors". If you had problems it would have been nice if you had contacted me about it.
The problem with Profiler not minimizing is due to a bug in the Windows API, and is mentioned in the help file under "Troubleshooting":
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If you click on the Profiler icon in the task bar, Profiler should go back to being resizeable.
ProfilerQuery only reads the XML file. It does not modify the database, so it cannot corrupt it. Either you had some other problem with your database, or you shut down DVD Profiler using the Task Manager. | Posted: Topic Replies: 7, Topic Views: 90 |
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One way would be to tag all your 3D movies.
Another way would be to use ProfilerQuery to create a report..
And you could use ProfilerQuery to create a Flag Set for 3D, and then use that flag set to tag those profiles, so you can then list them directly without running ProfilerQuery again. But you would have to remember to manually tag any new 3D profiles that you add.
Running ProfilerQuery is so easy (after you have learned how) that perhaps tagging is unnecessary. Your choice.
You could, of course, add a custom collection category for 3D. But that seems like a bit of overkill to me. If you do, make sure you check "Include contents in owned collection".
However, do not add a separate database for 3D movies! That is definitely more trouble than it is worth.
There may be other solutions that I haven't considered. | Posted: Topic Replies: 7, Topic Views: 90 |
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Quoting mediadogg:
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I think HTTPJolie passes thru the most important Events via UDP messages if you want to do something for the easy scenarios.
I don't think it passes on DVD Refreshed. | Posted: Topic Replies: 18, Topic Views: 7028 |
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Quoting mediadogg:
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It is more than intriguing. It is hard Yeah, I hadn't quite considered how many ways there actually are to change a profile.  After I figured that out, I thought I could do some tricks by sorting by last edited date. But that also turned out to be a dud. 
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Remember "XmlSpy"? Truth be told, I only recall the name, but nothing else about it. I think I'll have to think about this a bit more (and then I think I'll skip the idea). | Posted: Topic Replies: 18, Topic Views: 7028 |
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Given that it's well over three years since Lars visited the forum (and way longer since he posted anything), it's unlikely that he'll read this thread any time soon.
Quoting sba:
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I had found about the GSyren tools, but they require a manual action (even if that's launching DVD Profiler with the /commandfile argument) to ensure the export is up-to-date.
DvdpScheduler can run the export automatically at a specific time. Personally I use it to run the export every night. DVD Profiler does not have to be running. DvdpScheduler will start it if it is not running, and can be configured to close DVD Profiler after the export. But, this does require that you are logged on in Windows.
Incremental export sounds intriguing. I'll have to look into that. | Posted: Topic Replies: 18, Topic Views: 7028 |
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The XML export from Collectorz does contain IMDb id. It does not contain cast and crew (at least not by default; I guess there might be a setting that I missed). But I assume that MovieBuddy can get that from IMDb.
I am not sure how easy it would be to get a useful CVS file from Collectorz, but it might be worth a try, if you absolutely feel you need an iOS-only alternative to DVD Profiler. | Posted: Topic Replies: 3, Topic Views: 192 |
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Re: Collectorz:
It appears that I was wrong about layouts. I see on their web site that there are various layouts. I just didn't find that function when I tested. Still, as far as I can tell, it's nowhere near as customizable as DVD Profiler. | Posted: Topic Replies: 3, Topic Views: 192 |
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I have looked at all programs that I can find, and I have to say the the result is disappointing.
I have found only two that can import directly from DVD Profiler's export file; Collectorz and My Movies.
My Movies looked the most promising until I tested importing my collection. The import is web based. It has a progress bar that does not seem to work. I could import a very small collection, but when I tried to import the whole thing (a bit over 8000 profiles), it failed. Well, nothing happened, and I let the import run for 30 hours before I gave up. From their forum I learned that others have had the same experience.
Collectorz fared better, but it left a lot of my TV shows without any data. For the PC, the program is fully web based. It looks fairly good, but it lacks many of Profiler's features, there is, for example, no layout customization except for selection and order of columns. You get the cover images from the online, I think, and only front cover. You can add custom front and back images, but as far as I could tell it has to be done one profile at a time.
If you want both PC and phone apps, it'll set you back approximately $50 per year (I can only see the prices in SEK).
There are some programs that can import from CSV, but it's a whole lot more complicated, and those programs look pretty basic anyway.
Bottom line, if DVD Profiler doesn't work on your phone, and you really need that, then I'd say that Collectorz probably is your best bet. But for me personally, there is no way I switch to another program as long as DVD Profiler works. | Posted: Topic Replies: 3, Topic Views: 192 |
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Quoting mediadogg:
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Maybe someday add "Edit Profile" to pop up the Profiler dialogue?
Well, since TurboCLT takes its data from the online and not from your collection, "Edit Profile" isn't really an option.
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By the way, the front and back cover tabs don't work on my version.
They should work if you check "Show images" from the Options menu first. This is unchecked by default since loading images takes a bit of time.
This is mentioned in the Help file in the topics "Display profile" and "Buttons and menu items".  | Posted: Topic Replies: 49, Topic Views: 3624 |
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Normally clicking the Refresh Updated Profiles button (w/o Ctrl) should download just an incremental update of the list (just the updated parts), but currently this is not working, so you have to download the full list by holding down Ctrl. And yes, it does take a bit of time, especially if you have a slow connection.
Do you still get an access violation even after a database repair? | Posted: Topic Replies: 8, Topic Views: 486 |
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Yes, unfortunately it seems that any update in birth years results in that error.
Hopefully this will be fixed soon. | Posted: Topic Replies: 2, Topic Views: 216 |
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I don't think there is a way to see the Sort Title on the main layout or in a report that uses the internal report generator.
You can, however, create reports with ProfilerQuery that show the sort title.
Even with ProfilerQuery it's going to be a lot of work, given the size of your collection. I could probably create a custom tool that lists profiles with non-standard sort titles, if you are interested. | Posted: Topic Replies: 1, Topic Views: 218 |
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TurboCLT 1.3.5 per the request of marcelb7.
See changes in Settings:
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Quoting The_Fox:
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if it is not mentioned somewhere, e.g. in a text or legal info on the cover that it is indeed the MGM vintage classic series, I would consider "Vintage Classics" the correct edition.
No mention of "MGM Vintage Classics" anywhere. | Posted: Topic Replies: 8, Topic Views: 702 |
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There is a contribution up that changes "Vintage Classics" to "MGM Vintage Classics" for this title:
I have two concerns about this; one general and one specific.
First of all, the contribution notes say "to match approved profiles for other titles in this series." I always get concerned when someone says "to match" something. As we all know, something being approved doesn't necessarily mean that it's correct (sadly). So changing something to match something else may possibly mean that we are actually just propagating a previous error. I believe that each contribution must stand on its own.
Secondly, nowhere on the cover does it actually say "MGM Vintage Classics". There is a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer logo but it doesn't actually say "MGM" and it's clearly separated from "Vintage Classics".
So, what do you guys think? Is this an acceptable contribution? | Posted: Topic Replies: 8, Topic Views: 702 |
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Quoting marcelb7:
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My suggestion would be to start with titles that have the word "Disc" in them, and see where it goes.
We could try that, but I have to warn you that I have several movie boxsets where the individual children have titles that contain "Disc", and lots of TV titles that does not.
It's hard to evaluate the effectiveness of filtering in TurboCLT. I would suggest that you use ProfilerQuery against your own collection to test the effectiveness of some words. In my collection I found that selecting titles that contain "Series" or "Season" seemed to be fairly effective. But that's just for English titles.
Maybe I could implement something like this:
Exclude titles that contains any of the words: [Series, Season, Serie, ...]
Where you can add any word that seems appropriate. But, as I said, in TurboCLT it's very difficult to tell how effective this is.
What do you think? | Posted: Topic Replies: 49, Topic Views: 3624 |
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Quoting mediadogg:
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Look for episode dividers or the word "episode"?
I considered that, but there are plenty of anthology movies that contain episodes. Amicus released a bunch of such films back in the day, such as Vault of Horror, Tales from the Crypt and others. And there many other examples. | Posted: Topic Replies: 49, Topic Views: 3624 |
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Quoting marcelb7:
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Gunnar,
Is it possible to add a settings option that filters out disc profiles for TV series?
I'll take a look at it, but I guess it would mean filtering out anything with genre Television, which would also include TV movies if they were flagged as such. Unless you can suggest another way to identify just TV series? | Posted: Topic Replies: 49, Topic Views: 3624 |
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The other issues mentioned are being discussed in other threads, and I would suggest that you don't spread those discussions to this or other unrelated threads.
Regarding the online profile lists, as far as I know they are updated daily. I don't know exactly when, but if it's been more than a day since you last checked, you ought to see an incremental download. If you don't, then your local lists are most likely out-of-date.
There is of course the possibility that there are days when no profiles at all are added to the online database. And in that case you might not see a download. But in my experience that has seldom happened (at least before the server update).
Note, though, that just because you get an incremental update of the online profile list, that doesn't necessarily mean that there are any updates for your collection. You can still get "All DVD Profiles are up to date." | Posted: Topic Replies: 7, Topic Views: 1058 |
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| If the incremental update works, then fine. The point is to understand what the OPL is, and that if the incremental update fails you're not getting the latest updates (if any). | Posted: Topic Replies: 7, Topic Views: 1058 |
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A few days ago I posted this in the Facebook group "DVD Profiler Users", thinking that people there might not be reading the forum as closely as most of you guys here. Still, I guess it wouldn't hurt to post this info here as well.
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I have some new info regarding how to download the Online Profile List (hereafter referred to as the OPL). But just to make sure that we're all on the same page, I'd like to offer a short tutorial. Please bear with me if this is old news to you.
The OPL is a list of all profiles that are available in Invelos' online database. It contains some info on each profile. When you do an add by title, all the info that you see on that list comes from your local OPL (unless you click the Preview button - that data will be downloaded).
One piece of information in the OPL is the last change timestamp. When you select Refresh Updated Profiles, the online timestamps are compared to the local timestamps in your profiles, and if the online timestamp is newer, then that profile will show up as an available update.
The trouble that we are seeing is that when you select a function in Profiler than uses the OPL, Profiler tries to download an incremental update of the OPL. That means that it only downloads what's changed. Thus it's a much smaller download than a download of the full OPL. However, at the present, this incremental download does not seem to work. So, unless you do a full download, you'll still be working with the old OPL and will therefore not see any recent updates.
In earlier posts I have told you about two ways to get the full OPL; delete your local files or download it the way specified in the Knowledge Base. HOWEVER, it has just been pointed out to me that there is a third way: Click "Online/Refresh Online Profile List" while holding down the Ctrl key. I don't think this is documented anywhere.
Obviously having to download some 50+ MB of data every time you want to check for updates is annoying. Especially if you're paying for download traffic. So hopefully this problem will be rectified soon. | Posted: Topic Replies: 7, Topic Views: 1058 |
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Quoting greyghost:
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Or just hold the Ctrl key and select Refresh Online Profile List... under the Online... tab.
This just downloads the complete online profile list, you still need to Refresh Updated Profiles as usual.
Hm, is that documented somewhere? I assume that it was implemented after Ken had written that article in the knowledge base. It's a pity Ken was so bad at updating the documentation. Or, in fact, documenting some special functions at all. Now much of it is just through oral tradition. | Posted: Topic Replies: 21, Topic Views: 1978 |
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You can download the online profile list directly from your browser and save it to your "My Documents\DVD Profiler" directory. The next time you start DVD Profiler, it will automatically import the downloaded file.
Download the file by right-clicking on the download link below and selecting "Save Target As". Then, browse to your "My Documents" folder, then into "DVD Profiler" from there. Save the downloaded file.
Download link: OnlineList.dod
This works! Just make sure you download the file into the directory indicated, and then restart Profiler.
Thanks I'll try this out! Do you still the chance to decide whether or not to include certain updated data?
It just downloads the online profile list. After that you can select Refresh Updated Profiles from the menu, just like before. | Posted: Topic Replies: 21, Topic Views: 1978 |
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Quoting the Knowledge Base:
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You can download the online profile list directly from your browser and save it to your "My Documents\DVD Profiler" directory. The next time you start DVD Profiler, it will automatically import the downloaded file.
Download the file by right-clicking on the download link below and selecting "Save Target As". Then, browse to your "My Documents" folder, then into "DVD Profiler" from there. Save the downloaded file.
Download link: OnlineList.dod
This works! Just make sure you download the file into the directory indicated, and then restart Profiler. | Posted: Topic Replies: 21, Topic Views: 1978 |
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TurboCLT 1.3.4
Well, no sooner than one bug is found and fixed, another one pops up.
This time it was names with quotation marks that didn't work properly. | Posted: Topic Replies: 49, Topic Views: 3624 |