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<blockquote data-quote="OrionHall" data-source="post: 191905" data-attributes="member: 56502">Hmmm - interesting one!&nbsp; At the moment - not a chance.&nbsp; The app assumes that all files are multimedia formats, and every file matching the configured extensions will be scanned by MediaInfo.dll.&nbsp; Unfortunately, that dll hangs for ages if it can't cope with a file.&nbsp; I use it because it's the best thing I've found for analysing video files, and it's great to have that information included in AMC automatically!&nbsp; So far I've only had this problem with less then 1% of my files, most of which seem to have Ogg audio streams.&nbsp; I guess it would do this big time if you point it to a disk image file!&nbsp; If you left it for a few hours, it would probably get there in the end (!) but obviously that's not exactly useful.I guess it would be pretty easy to add an extra list of file formats ('multimedia files' and 'other files') and have it not try to analyse the non-multimedia ones.&nbsp; Or I could go the whole hog and add an option to each filetype, so it would appear as a grid with 'scan - yes' or 'scan - no' tickboxes for each file extension.&nbsp; Possibly overkill though!If the app could import your files into the AMC database, what information should be included?&nbsp; I don't have a way to easily examine the contents of an iso file so apart from the filename, filesize and 'source' fields, what do you think could be automatically added?&nbsp; Any ideas to improve this are appreciated, so let me know what you think.Cheers,OrionHall.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="OrionHall, post: 191905, member: 56502"] Hmmm - interesting one! At the moment - not a chance. The app assumes that all files are multimedia formats, and every file matching the configured extensions will be scanned by MediaInfo.dll. Unfortunately, that dll hangs for ages if it can't cope with a file. I use it because it's the best thing I've found for analysing video files, and it's great to have that information included in AMC automatically! So far I've only had this problem with less then 1% of my files, most of which seem to have Ogg audio streams. I guess it would do this big time if you point it to a disk image file! If you left it for a few hours, it would probably get there in the end (!) but obviously that's not exactly useful. I guess it would be pretty easy to add an extra list of file formats ('multimedia files' and 'other files') and have it not try to analyse the non-multimedia ones. Or I could go the whole hog and add an option to each filetype, so it would appear as a grid with 'scan - yes' or 'scan - no' tickboxes for each file extension. Possibly overkill though! If the app could import your files into the AMC database, what information should be included? I don't have a way to easily examine the contents of an iso file so apart from the filename, filesize and 'source' fields, what do you think could be automatically added? Any ideas to improve this are appreciated, so let me know what you think. Cheers, OrionHall. [/QUOTE]

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