Option for a german language movie database

[FlipGer]

Hi folks,

for all who want to test this out. Grab the VideoDatabase.dll and replace the original in your Media Portal directory.

To activate the feature who have to add some lines in the Mediaportal.xml:

<section name="moviedatabase">
    <entry name="number">2</entry>
    <entry name="database0">OFDB</entry>
    <entry name="limit0">10</entry>
    <entry name="database1">IMDB</entry>
    <entry name="limit1">10</entry>
  </section>

With these lines you can specify the order and number of the search results of each DB. Setting limit to 0 lets you skip the DB.
Do not change "number", it has to be 2, since there are not more than DBs, yet.

Critics, comments and bugreports are welcome.

Have fun, Flip.

[tomtom21000]

I sure will try asap. Great work.

do you expect problems when udating to a new mp version?
can i use the videodatabase with new mp versions or do i need a back up after testing?

tomtom21000

[FlipGer]

Hi Tomtom,

it is always better to make a backup.

But i do not see any problem in the near future when you use my .dll. If the DB lookup is not dramatically changed, there will not be any problem.

So if OFDB is not implemented in the next official releases you can use my .dll i think without problems.

Flip.

Originally Posted by FlipGer

Have fun, Flip.

I Installed you DLL and it seems to work fine - but some things i found to be not o.k.:

- German Characters Try to find a movie with äöü - a manual serach on ofdb found the movie but not you dll
- concatenated movie - i tried to download the movie info for a movie of 6 CD's and i got the Message "Anwendung" insted of something happen...

But over all i have to say that i like it really MUCH...

[FlipGer]

Hi,

1) will look into this. Totally forgot to search for (äöü) - can you give me some examples?
2) can you post the filename please? And / Or do please:
- start MP
- make a search on the concatenated movie
- exit MP and post you Mediaportal.log

thanx alot for testing! I will check this out.

Flip.

[FlipGer]

Hi,

problem with special german chars fixed (äöüß). New version online.
Could not reproduce number 2, so please post the filenames....

Happy testing, Flip.

[sickboy]

Try Futurama. With this filename i got the message too

[cheffe97]

does anyone have the prob that ofdb finds only info for a very small amount of movies. I'm talking 'bout movies like Finding Nemo!
cheffe

[tomtom21000]

Originally Posted by cheffe97

does anyone have the prob that ofdb finds only info for a very small amount of movies. I'm talking 'bout movies like Finding Nemo!
cheffe

Haven´t been able to try this yet,

but is it

#mp that does not find the film?
#or ofdb that does not contain the film?

Searching directly on their website brought me a result for "finding nemo" search

http://www.ofdb.de/view.php?page=film&fid=34763

used quicksearch.

There is also a search field on the home page where you can specify if you search for German title or original title.
Maybe this has something to do with it?

tomtom21000

[cheffe97]

checked again..
seems to be MP since ofdb found the title "Findet Nemo" on the webpage.
Btw. when u search u get a resultlist and a button "Handbuch" to the left. Strange name... think "Manuelle Suche" or something else would be better.
The list says 91 results but only 1/1 pages.
ofdb gives nothing back, imdb only strange results like old french movies.
searching for "Finding Nemo" gives better results from imdb but still nothing from ofdb.
hope this helps.
cheffe