Topic: phpdvdprofiler

[FredLooks]

Ah. I see the problem.

I think I really need to rethink images.

Originally, there were two sets of images, mirroring the windows files: the main images and the thumbnails. Thumbs were used for the main profile images, and full-size were for when the thumbs were clicked.

With the advent of the gallery and the watched lists, there wound up being lots of differently-sized images, most of which were generated dynamically, though cached in the imagecache directory. Worse, the windows profiler decision to not store HD banners meant that weird things had to be done to show the images as one would want. Currently most times that is done by compositing the banner and the image when resizing.

Bottom line is that it may make more sense to just do away with the thumbnails and generate them as required, although I have to wander around the code a little to see how troubling that would be ... now that I think of it, it may be that the main profile thumbs are not directly from the thumbnail files ... I have to look at it ...

I'll get back to you on this one ...

[DJ Doena]

Fred has released a new version: http://dvdaholic.me.uk/forums/index.php?topic=788.0;topicseen

[FredLooks]

I have released a new version: http://dvdaholic.me.uk/forums/index.php?topic=803.0

It supports Ken's 3.8.0, but is a little rushed so that I can prepare to work on the 3.8.1 ...

As always, This gets the full zip also ...

[Achim]

Thanks, Fred!

[RossRoy]

Sorry if I'm simply late to the party but .. love the new update code! I really like that it retries by itself until it's complete! 

[Kathy]

I'm sure I would like the updates if I could have ever figured out to install it in the first place. 

[Jimmy]

I really like that it retries by itself until it's complete!  

At first I tought I had a problem, not used to see it restart after 300 or so profiles. But of course I haven't read the release info, so it's kind of my fault

I'm sure I would like the updates if I could have ever figured out to install it in the first place.  

I can't say it's easy to set it. A chance Eric helped me a lot when I did it the first time and Sebastien too who is always there when I have a problem. The fact we talk the same language help a lot for the technical thing

[FredLooks]

Sorry if I'm simply late to the party but .. love the new update code! I really like that it retries by itself until it's complete! 

Glad you find it useful. It was ... interesting getting it to work properly (or even acceptably  )

[EdwinK]

Your phpdvdprofiler is something I do miss.

[Kathy]

Your phpdvdprofiler is something I do miss.

What program do you use for your DVD collection?

[EdwinK]

I now use Moviecollectorz and am trying with My Movies (both on Mac)

[Achim]

I now use Moviecollectorz and am trying with My Movies (both on Mac)

I think it was the lack of a watched event tracking at the time that stopped me from switching to My Movies. I contacted one of the developers and he said they will add it, but I haven't checked since then (some time last year). They do many things simpler than in DVD Profiler, but I figured that that would actually be sufficient for me.

[DSig]

I now use Moviecollectorz and am trying with My Movies (both on Mac)

I recently looked at Movie Collectorz as I was looking for a Library collection sw routine.  But their movie version seemed like a rehashed version of their book sw.  My Movies looks interesting.

Let us know how it goes

DSig

[RossRoy]

Fred, I'm having an odd problem.

I use Site5 as a host. Using the older version, the update and movie listing goes through without a problem. With the newer version? It craps out all the time. It takes multiple updates to get through the whole XML file (20+) and when I go to the main site for the listing, the script will just die and not show the listing on the left.

I managed to fix it somewhat for myself by doing a full update of the database, but it still dies here and there.

Then, there's Marie's collection. I host it on my account as a subdomain. Hers just won't list the movie on the main at all. I've tried complete update, recreating the database, nothing. The update eventually goes through (again, 15-20+ incremental updates needed) and once done, we can't get the listing or the little javascript menu on the left.

I contacted my host, and they said the php script "killer" must be too stringent, and that I could use a custom php.ini file to set different limits to allow the script to run smoothly. Well, I've tried setting Max Execution time at 5 minutes and Max memory at 192MiB.. still craps out.

I was wondering if we could work together and try to find out what's going on. Whether it's a bug in phpdvdprofiler, or something I can fix on my end with a custom php.ini, or get the hosting company to change whatever needs to be changed for it to work (they are usually quite receptive for that kind of thing).

Let me know!

Edit: Oh yeah! I also tried limiting the number of profiles listed to 250 items, and it still craps out of Marie's collection. Maybe it's a corrupt XML file?

[FredLooks]

Well, that's annoying. That update change was designed specifically to help in that situation.

I definitely want to make that work for you and Marie. Why don't you drop me a note at fred@bws.com with some of the details of your host, and we can start testing...