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Quoting Magmadrag:
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We all know that stuff we would like to own in our collection and never can understand why they are not released. Imo the problem since the streaming era began is that they simply produce too much fort TV and all the streamers. And mostly they got no idea if any collectors would buy. Sometimes they try, but if the first few seasons are sold too less, they quit releasing.
Yes, this is quite frustrating. One of my favorite shows back in the day was Fame. It was wildly popular, yet only two of six seasons were ever released on DVD, and it's not streaming anywhere (afaik).  | Posted: Topic Replies: 11, Topic Views: 5642 |
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It sounds to me like a "glass half full or glass half empty" situation. Sure, it would be nice if people did a complete audit of their discs before contributing, but I still think that something is better than nothing. As long as people don't knowingly submit incorrect data, I'm fine. Not everyone is interested in spending hours creating profiles. I wouldn't call it lazy.
As regards original title for TV shows, the rules don't really specify what it should be. While I personally agree with you that it should be just the name of the show, there have been many discussions about it, and it seems that there are reasons (valid or not) to include season info. However, the rules do say "In cases where the title is the original title, leave the Original Title field blank", so those who don't accept just the name of the show should probably leave the original title field empty. | Posted: Topic Replies: 5, Topic Views: 3794 |
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Quoting mediadogg:
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Interesting. I will take a look at WebView2. If it solves the issues I had building CLTBoss, I will jump on it, because that would make the tool run at least 10 times faster.
That would be awesome! Fingers crossed! | Posted: Topic Replies: 66, Topic Views: 22564 |
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Guess what! I found more things to do to BirthYearCheck! 
First of all, I replaced CEFSharp with WebView2. Among other things this means a much smaller download, and BirthYearCheck can now be run on both 32 bit and 64 bit machines. Anyone still running 32 bit Windows?
I also implemented AutoItX fully, so now the program will find DVD Profiler without having to know Profiler's main window title. And I styled the program a bit, but it's much less obvious here than in ProfilerMissing. Just trying to put a little bit of personal touch on my programs.
The search function in WebView2 is a bit different than in CefSharp, so please read the help file.
There are a couple of minor fixes as well.
BirthYearCheck 4.8
Refresh your browser if you still see the old version.
PS. If you already have BirthYearCheck installed, you might consider cleaning out that folder before copying in the new version, so you get rid of all the no longer needed CefSharp gunk. | Posted: Topic Replies: 66, Topic Views: 22564 |
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Quoting nanoron:
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Just updated to iPadOS 17.01 and iOS 17.01. DVD Profiler still seems to be working OK except for the black text on a black background in the search box of the Showcase tab on my iPad. Annoying, but not a major problem. I think we are good for another year.
If anyone notices anything else please report it here.
Thanks nanoron! Good to know. I haven't updated my iPad yet, but I will now! | Posted: Topic Replies: 16, Topic Views: 5143 |
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PprofilerMissing 2.3
I found a better way to identify DVD Profiler's main window than using the window title, so now this program works with any translated DVD Profiler without specifying the window title. A very minor improvement for most of you.
I also took the time to style the program:
And I added some very small fixes to the interface. So not any really important changes. | Posted: Topic Replies: 22, Topic Views: 16395 |
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Oops!  
I screwed up. Twice!
1) The code that was supposed to test if HTTPJolie was available (and deselect it automatically if it was not) seems to have gone AWOL. This could cause ProfilerMissing to crash if you tried double-clicking a row. My sincerest apologies to anyone who had this problem.
2) I trusted a solution that I found on the Internet that showed how to ensure that a web page was always refreshed when opened. It seemed to work when I tested it, but I later discovered that it actually didn't. Apparently not everything you read on the Internet is correct! Who knew?
So, if you see an old version when you go to the download page, refresh your browser (usually F5).
Anyway, the test for HTTPJolie has been fixed.
And I have added another feature. Right-click in a row and you get a context menu with Search title in IMDB and Edit profile. The latter selects the profile in DVD Profiler and opens it for editing. It also open a small window that lists what is missing and positions it above Profiler. You can deselect that in Settings if you don't like it.
So, here is ProfilerMissing 2.2
PS: HTTPJolie really makes the integration a lot smoother. I highly recommend it! | Posted: Topic Replies: 22, Topic Views: 16395 |
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Quoting mediadogg:
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And doesn't HTTPJolie have a profile update from xml?
It does, so that's not a problem. Implementing all the editing necessary is, especially since it is done better in Profiler itself than I could ever hope to do. | Posted: Topic Replies: 22, Topic Views: 16395 |
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Quoting mediadogg:
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Wow this has the makings of a really nice editor. Can you in fact fill in missing info? Then send the updated profile to the local database?
Interesting thought, but ultimately a lot of work for little gain, I think. I will, however, add code to let the user select the profile and open it for editing. Not a great time saver, but it saves a couple of keystrokes. As I have indicated before, I don't want to try to do things that is better done in Profiler itself. | Posted: Topic Replies: 22, Topic Views: 16395 |
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Quoting nuoyaxin:
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Hello Gunnar,
as of my writing, the link ion your site still points at version 2.0.0....
You probably needed to refresh your browser. However, I have added code to automatically refresh the page when opened, so you should see the latest version now. | Posted: Topic Replies: 22, Topic Views: 16395 |
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Error when overview not exported is fixed in ProfilerMissing 2.1.1
If Overview has not been exported, it will not be reported as missing (or cause an error, of course).
If cast and/or crew have not been exported, they will be reported as missing. | Posted: Topic Replies: 22, Topic Views: 16395 |
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Hi hydr0x,
Yes, I expect a complete export. I didn't realize that there was a good reason not to include everything. I can most certainly fix that. Thanks for pointing that out. | Posted: Topic Replies: 22, Topic Views: 16395 |
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ProfilerMissing 2.1
OK, some enhancements:
- New selectable missing properties; Subtitles, Color Format (Color, B&W, Colorized, Mixed) and Video Format (2D, 3D Anaglypph, Bluray 3D).
- Possibility to save result as flag set in Profiler.
- Possibility to filter down the result by loading a flag set that defines either which profiles to keep or which profiles to remove from the result.
- Possibility to change the checkboxes to three-state so they can define properties to not include.
All explained in greater detail in the help file. See the topic "Advanced". | Posted: Topic Replies: 22, Topic Views: 16395 |
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ProfilerMissing 2.0
All New!
All Singing!
All Dancing!
OK,maybe not quite all that. But it is all new! A complete re-write with an all new interface.
Read all about it!
... in the new help file.
Version 1 is still available for those who prefer it, but it will no longer be maintained. | Posted: Topic Replies: 22, Topic Views: 16395 |
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GsyLaunch 2.6.0
Now allows setting desired Windows style. | Posted: Topic Replies: 17, Topic Views: 22321 |
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The report generator that comes with DVD Profiler is quite exceptional. It let's you create reports that are visually complex and quite nice to look at. But the versatility comes with a drawback. Designing reports is quite cumbersome, even for simple reports. If you want one-off simple text reports, ProfilerQuery offers two easier solutions.
1. Just run a query in ProfierQuery, right click in the result and select Print. You can sort the result any way you want before printing. As an example, I wanted a report of my Ray Harryhausen movies on Blu-ray, sorted by production year. I had one printed in 2 minutes.
2. Save the result as a .csv file and open it in the spreadsheet of your choice (or select Open result in spreadsheet which does just that and opens it in the default program for .csv files). This will give you all the possibilities of the spreadsheet, for example sums, averages, maximums etc. And then you can print it out.
Using ProfilerQuery means that you need to have an XML export of your collection. It's always good to have an up-to-date export. Using my QuickExport makes that a breeze. Or, you can schedule exports (and other things) in DvdpScheduler, but that requires that you leave your PC logged in, which may not always be suitable.
Of course, if you already have a Profiler report that suits your purpose, that's the easiest way. But for ad hoc reports, that's usually not the case. So knowing the alternatives is always a good thing. | Posted: Topic Replies: 0, Topic Views: 1818 |
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Quoting razorDVD:
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It seems that in the past when I added a new movie, the cast information was there after the add. If the cast info is not there does it mean that there was no cast information for the movie? Sorry, I'm a little confused.
No, it means that whoever submitted the profile did not enter any cast. It's not mandatory. In fact, the only things that you must enter in order to submit a profile are - if I remember correctly - Title, ID (usually UPC/EAN) and Production Year.
In most cases, the initial contribution does contain cast and crew, and if it does not, there is usually someone who is willing to add that to the profile. But if this is a relatively new or obscure title, it's not abnormal that it comes without a cast. Also, nowadays we have, unfortunately, a diminishing number of active contributors. | Posted: Topic Replies: 7, Topic Views: 4462 |
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Quoting razorDVD:
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there are NO cast members. I thought these were automatically created?
Just to be clear, nothing is created automatically. Everything is user contributed. You can use DJ Doena's program to add cast and crew from IMDb, but IMDb data may not be contributed to the online database. If you want to contribute the (updated) profile, you need to first match everything to the actual movie credits. | Posted: Topic Replies: 7, Topic Views: 4462 |
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DpOnlineBrowser 1.4
Now shows birth years for cast and crew. | Posted: Topic Replies: 18, Topic Views: 19672 |
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Short answer: No.
Long answer: There would be no point. As long as Invelos is up and running, there is no way that we could create an alternative client that would come anywhere near DVD Profiler. And even if we wanted to, we couldn't access the online database. And what's the point of an alternative client without an online database.
The sad reality is that if (or when) Invelos goes down, we can either use DVD Profiler offline to just keep managing our local databases, or switch to an alternative program.
Anyway, creating something like an alternative client would be an enormous task, and even if I do have too much time on my hands I doubt that I would live long enough to see it completed. 
Now, DJ is still a young man ...  | Posted: Topic Replies: 132, Topic Views: 39148 |
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BirthYearCheck 4.7.2
Well, here's another update. There are two main reasons for this.
- I realized that changing sort order made hidden rows visible again, so I had to change how this was done.
- There was an update for the browser component, CEFSharp, that indicated that the old version could have security issues.
Apart from that, since I had to update the program anyway, I added the possibility to configure what DVD Profiler's Main Window Title is - in case you're using a translation that has changed that title.
I also changed some functions that used the Windows API so they use AutoIT instead. AutoIT functions are probably just wrappers for the API, but they're easier to use so they hopefully work just as good or better.
PS. I toyed with the idea of headlining this with "BirthYearCheck 4.7.2: Jason Lives" just to tie in to "The Final Chapter" from version 4.7.0. Or perhaps even "Json lives". But since there are no changes to how I use json in this version, it seemed a bit too farfetched.
If I had thought about it from the beginning, I could have named the exclusion file "Voorhees.json". And I could have released that version on Friday the 13th. I like little jokes like that. But that's just 20/20 hindsight now ... | Posted: Topic Replies: 66, Topic Views: 22564 |
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| Personally I tend to use DvdpScheduler for exporting, but that's a bit of overkill unless you also intend to use its scheduling and other functions. | Posted: Topic Replies: 1, Topic Views: 1712 |
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Since so many of my tools depend on an export file, I thought that it might be a good idea to create a tool that makes it as easy as possible to export all or selected profiles.
You can configure the export file names if you don't like the defaults, and you can (or rather must) select a folder to store the exports.
Then just select All, Owned, Filtered or Flagged and click Export. Voila! Of course, DVD Profiler must be running when you do this, and it works with or without HTTPJolie.
Download version 1.0 from here. | Posted: Topic Replies: 1, Topic Views: 1712 |
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I forgot something ...
In order to set focus on DVD Profiler from CommonNameScanner I use the main window title to identify it. So right now
Scan flagged profile(s) only works if that title is exactly Invelos Software DVD Profiler.
Some translations change that title, and I had intended to make it configurable in CommonNameScanner. I forgot. Sorry about that. However, I hesitate to create a new version and release it unless someone actually needs it.
So, if you want to use CommonNameScanner together with a DVD Profiler translation that has a different main window title, just let me know and I'll happily fix that. | Posted: Topic Replies: 8, Topic Views: 5094 |
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CommonNameScanner 1.1
It occurred to me that it might be useful if it was easier to scan just one profile (or a few profiles) without having a fully up-to-date export file. You might want to check a newly updated profile before you contribute it, for example.
So this version includes Scan flagged profile(s). This will automatically create a temporary export from just the flagged profiles and load that. That's a really quick way to check your profile before contributing. | Posted: Topic Replies: 8, Topic Views: 5094 |