DVD Profiler for offline DVDs

[afinemetsfan]

I would like to view the profiler info for my DVD collection. So far I have only been able to do this by going through the lengthy process below - which only works sometimes

Is there any way to get this done? Its such an important feature that requires alot of work just to get semi-working.

My steps so far - Edited to show the best way so far - hope this helps people

Use a STV that includes mlbdude
create xml with DVD profiler and place in \\SageMCE directory
Depending on the version of DVD profiler- you may need to run this script found here at the meedio forum

Run DVDPro2My - Download it here on the collection.xml file
Run the following text in a batch file save it as "rename.bat" in your video folder

for /F "delims=" %%i IN ('dir /b') DO ren "%%i\%%i.my" info.my
for /F "delims=" %%i IN ('dir /b') DO ren "%%i\%%i.jpg" folder.jpg
for /F "delims=" %%i IN ('dir /b') DO copy "%%i\folder.jpg" "%%i\%%i.avi"

Sometimes this process just doesnt work- sometimes it does- that is my experience with it Hopefully this will all be integrated soon in some STV or Sage 3.0

[Crashless]

Can't SageMCE pull info from the .xml file directly (without DVDPro2My)?

I'm not sure about the folder.jpg, or the title.avi, but I was under the impression that SageMCE pulled the metadata from the .xml file as the file details menu was called.

Is this wrong?

[stanger89]

It can, but his problem is that he doesn't actually have the video files (hence the dummy video.avi).

Unfortunately no, right now there's no way to do what you want (browse your offline files). That will take someone with Studio to impliment in a custom STV.

[afinemetsfan]

stranger89- i think i recall in the wiki a batch file that you wrote to do the renaming - but it was a dead link- do you still have this file

[stanger89]

Try here:
http://forums.sage.tv/forums/showthr...&postcount=198

[JUC]

[QUOTE=stanger89]It can, but his problem is that he doesn't actually have the video files (hence the dummy video.avi).

Wait, is there a way to create really small .avi's and rename them to correspond with your offline DVD collection--at least you would be able to browse your offline collection with all the info. Anyone done this?
I think using DVDprofiler for offline collections would be a HUGE feature for many people and I am surprised no one has fully implemented it in an STV yet.
JUC

[Crashless]

Originally Posted by JUC

I think using DVDprofiler for offline collections would be a HUGE feature for many people and I am surprised no one has fully implemented it in an STV yet.
JUC

I can't promise a time-frame, but it's on my to-do list. I'd love to get rid of Meedio for things like this.

[stanger89]

[QUOTE=JUC]

Originally Posted by stanger89

It can, but his problem is that he doesn't actually have the video files (hence the dummy video.avi).

Wait, is there a way to create really small .avi's and rename them to correspond with your offline DVD collection--at least you would be able to browse your offline collection with all the info. Anyone done this?
I think using DVDprofiler for offline collections would be a HUGE feature for many people and I am surprised no one has fully implemented it in an STV yet.
JUC

You could probably modify the batch file I linked above to copy the image to a moviename.avi also. Don't know if it would work though.

[GbrNole]

you don't need to transcode an avi you just need to do as mentioned and make a text doc and rename it: movie name.avi

the one thing that still lacks though is that it would be better if we could easily organize movies by genre, actor, director etc.

i'll have to search it but was there ever a method to disable the "delete button" under the videos folder? i lost 3 xvids courtesy of my wife and kids because of this in the last couple of weeks.

[stanger89]

Originally Posted by GbrNole

you don't need to transcode an avi you just need to do as mentioned and make a text doc and rename it: movie name.avi

the one thing that still lacks though is that it would be better if we could easily organize movies by genre, actor, director etc.

i'll have to search it but was there ever a method to disable the "delete button" under the videos folder? i lost 3 xvids courtesy of my wife and kids because of this in the last couple of weeks.

Some STVs do that now.

[JUC]

got it--very nice. I didn't realize you can name a text doc an .avi and it would work. Very useful information. Now I just need to make them for all my offline DVD's

[Crashless]

Like stanger said, you can probably mod that bat file to do it for you. I would hate to do that one-by-one for the 250 movies I have...

[stanger89]

Originally Posted by JUC

got it--very nice. I didn't realize you can name a text doc an .avi and it would work. Very useful information. Now I just need to make them for all my offline DVD's

Just to be clear, I don't know if it actually works, but I'm sure you could tweak the bat file to do the copy.

[afinemetsfan]

Ive edited the batch file to add the title.avi
for this to work you must create a 'C:/dummy.avi" so it has something to move and rename (I dont know how to create a file in command line- if this is possible then there is no need for dummy.avi

You also must edit the file with location of your videos - replace "videos"

save the attached as rename.bat and place it in your videos folder

[stanger89]

Now this assumes it doesn't matter if it's a real AVI or just something named *.avi.

I was thinking something more like this:

for /F "delims=" %%i IN ('dir /b') DO ren "%%i\%%i.my" info.my
for /F "delims=" %%i IN ('dir /b') DO ren "%%i\%%i.jpg" folder.jpg
for /F "delims=" %%i IN ('dir /b') DO copy "%%i\folder.jpg" "%%i\%%i.avi"

Or if you've got a dummy avi somewhere:

for /F "delims=" %%i IN ('dir /b') DO ren "%%i\%%i.my" info.my
for /F "delims=" %%i IN ('dir /b') DO ren "%%i\%%i.jpg" folder.jpg
for /F "delims=" %%i IN ('dir /b') DO copy "somewhere\dummy.avi" "%%i\%%i.avi"

[afinemetsfan]

That looks alot better- again Im not used to writing stuff in windows command line code-actually this was my first attempt at any .bat script