A Call for help from MP community (New movie db)

[Darrin2101]

How about a way to utilise the output of DVD Profiler, that would speed things up for a lot of poeople I would imagine. Using the exported data (XML) from that to populate the database.

[jay_galway]

Originally Posted by zag2me

In terms of covers they must be of medium resolution and only the front or the spine. This is on purpose so people don't directly upload hires covers while giving good enough image for an htpc plugin to use.

I would be interested to know what people think about the copy-write issues of this policy as I don't want to get sued

This database can be used over and above imdb, its not meant to be a complete replacement.

I have to say that Hi-res cover arts look great though, I personally use google image search to get my covers. I would upload them for you, but your wanting lower res though right?

[zag2me]

419 pixels wide, and its just for the front covers. So its kinda medium res

Nearly 30,000 entries now, so thanks everyone for helping.

[papas]

well lets just hope now that a nice plugin as tvseries will be available for the MyVideos that utilizes your db

[jonaskp]

I don't know how this functions, but would it be possible to use this database in conjunction with the "My Films" plugin? Either by importing to the ANT database, or by skipping the ANT and just use this?

[Hawkeye]

Are there plans to make the db multilingual like the tvdb?

[dukus]

Take a look at : http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/sc...ng-t26098.html

[zag2me]

Great news, I knew someone would find it useful

Now that the movdb works with media-portal, can people keep uploading some covers and movie details please.

Also looking for trailer links, movie budgets (can get these from wikipedia), and new movies that are in the cinema.

I have not had time to work on movdb recently, but some improvements are coming, like movie screenshots, actor roles and maybe some multi lingual stuff if there is enough interest.

285,816 Movies in the DB now

[cheetah05]

Hi there,

Personally I think this is an excellent idea. Well done.

I think there are ways it could be bettered though.

Currently I am developing (going to start ) a plugin for Media Portal that grabs movie information from IMDB and high resolution art from another site based on their movie collection on their harddrive.

What I think you should do is get an application to do this, and get people to run it on their home machines. It would output an XML file containing all the movie information and the images to go with it. Get them to zip it up.

What they then do is upload it to your site, which then unzips it, and goes through the xml file and if the movie doesn't already exist in the database it uploads it and copies the image across and then deletes the files which are not needed anymore.

Just a thought

[zag2me]

Originally Posted by cheetah05

Hi there,

Personally I think this is an excellent idea. Well done.

I think there are ways it could be bettered though.

Currently I am developing (going to start ) a plugin for Media Portal that grabs movie information from IMDB and high resolution art from another site based on their movie collection on their harddrive.

What I think you should do is get an application to do this, and get people to run it on their home machines. It would output an XML file containing all the movie information and the images to go with it. Get them to zip it up.

What they then do is upload it to your site, which then unzips it, and goes through the xml file and if the movie doesn't already exist in the database it uploads it and copies the image across and then deletes the files which are not needed anymore.

Just a thought

Yes in theory its a very good idea

In practice however its not such a good idea Over at meedios we did exactly that with a personal "library uploader", it worked great until we realised that not everyone's library is the same Some people store actor roles some don't, some put it in the same field as the actors. Everyone names their movies differently ect ect. It becomes a nightmare for the database consistency.

There is already a nice importer that runs by grabbing data from imdb and uploading to movie-xml site but what we really need is people to add cool information like trailer links, worldwide gross ect, and more covers. And sometimes to flesh out the info for the more popular movies.