Topic: DVD Profiler 3.8.1

[Blair]

and the color / Black and white non sense isn't over... This one is such a waste of time and an useless bad addition idea.

But he didn't do things for nothing. It had been suggested by someone, +1'ed but some people, and I assume it was easy to add, so there you go.

[goodguy]

I'm still using v3.6, so I don't see any of this. Kudos to Ken for keeping things backward compatible, I guess.

[Jimmy]

It had been suggested by someone, +1'ed but some people.

and those people haven't predict how stupid it will be when 99.9% of all the films / TV shows / Live Performances DVD / Video Compilation will be submited again to state the obvious....


THEY ARE IN COLOR

[addicted2dvd]

I don't know... maybe 99.9% of your collection. I barely got started going through my collection and already up over 300 B&W titles. So that will definitely not be the case in my collection.  Matter of fact Ken seen so much that would have to have B&W in the database he scrapped his original idea of defaulting all profiles to color to start with.

[Jimmy]

I don't know... maybe 99.9% of your collection.

I was talking of the profile I see in my voting queue and yes 99.9999% of them add color
I have no intention to go through all my profile to add that information... just doesn't seem important to me. I know wich one of my films aren't in color and I can't see any practical reason to add this...

Matter of fact Ken seen so much that would have to have B&W in the database he scrapped his original idea of defaulting all profiles to color to start with.

Don't be sure maybe in two years he will say it's a bug and rewrote history again...

[addicted2dvd]

You shouldn't be seeing hardly any profiles come up to vote as ONLY adding color. He has an automatic approval for anything that ONLY fills in the color field. They don't go to the vote and they don't go to the screeners. Just instant approvals. He did however say some would slip through... any that is added when the updates are released each night. Said it is like a 10min widow each night that they will not be automatically accepted. He added this weeks back... and I know I personally in that time only seen 1 color field only come up for vote.

If you are talking about contributions that also add/fix other fields... then not sure what the problem is. Would be going through anyway.

[W0m6at]

I was pretty lucky with the color/B&W stuff, because I was already tracking that with tags. With the automatic approval and the "Skip all unchanged", things are running pretty smoothly at my end. I've even picked up on a few that I've gotten wrong (and there have also been a few auto-approves that I've rejected at my end). Unfortunately I do most of my DVDPing from work, where I can't contribute (it fails).

It does look like some people are getting confused between colour and colourised. I've voted down an update for Earth vs. the Flying Saucers. I would have thought "Colorized" on the cover might have been a hint.

When things settle down in my life (moved into a new house 2mths ago, getting married in 1mth with only 2mths total prep-time, workplace shuffling) I'm thinking of having some themed movie nights. One thing I'm keen to look at doing is have a Black & White night. Only B&W movies, everyone dressed in Black and White only. If I can get creative, I'd love to expand it over to the food too. Then blow people's minds... perhaps Electric Dragon 80,000V and City of Life and Death or The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra and Metropolis.

[goodguy]

I'm still using v3.6, so I don't see any of this. Kudos to Ken for keeping things backward compatible, I guess.

Sadly it seems no longer to be compatible.  I didn't want to update the plugins I'm using, but now I probably have to.

[DJ Doena]

Beta 3.8.2 is out.

[Tom]

Has anyone already installed it? Are there changes in the XML export?

[DJ Doena]

I have installed it but haven't checked the XML yet.

But I doubt there are any changes since there aren't really any new esktop features.

[Jimmy]

Has anyone already installed it?

Not me. I don't see anything in the list of features to made me test it, maybe I'll update when it'll be official or maybe I won't. It doesn't look like something new was added to me

[DJ Doena]

To be perfectly honest, I doubt this is going to lead anywhere, but:

Do you remember Ken saying (2 years ago!) he wanted to take another stab at the Cast/Crew system?

There is still a pinned topic in the contribution forum about it, but it has gone quiet.


Still, I toyed with some ideas and I found a way to keep the existing system and yet add a proper cast/crew linking on top. I wrote a Demo Client app.

Check it out: http://www.invelos.com/Forums.aspx?task=viewtopic&topicID=509284&PageNum=13&messageID=2113974#M2113974

[addicted2dvd]

I downloaded your demo... and I really couldn't get it to do anything. I tried to add a new cast member to the pilot episode.... no luck.... I did have the pilot chosen... but it still added it under episode 2... not attached to either episode. I tried adding a new episode... didn't work... only got a blank space where episode 3 should have been.

[DJ Doena]

I downloaded your demo... and I really couldn't get it to do anything. I tried to add a new cast member to the pilot episode.... no luck.... I did have the pilot chosen... but it still added it under episode 2... not attached to either episode. I tried adding a new episode... didn't work... only got a blank space where episode 3 should have been.

When you press "Add Cast Member" in the main screen, it will just add another cast member (like if it were a movie).

If you want to add another cast member to the episode, select it, edit it and add a cast member there.



I'll make a video.