Displaying movie info from database (1 Viewer)

[grubi]

Any idea how to display the movie info saved in the database without accessing internet?
Whenever you press F3 or OFDM/IMDB from conext menu those internet sites are beeing accessed.
There should be a way to simply display what's in the database without going to the internet.

grubi.

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

I have to agree with you on this one, you should just be able to access info like MyFilm's only accessing imdb if you hit refresh.

 

[grubi]

I have to agree with you on this one, you should just be able to access info like MyFilm's only accessing imdb if you hit refresh.

Don't call me paranoid ;-) but I don't like the idea that everytime I lookup a movie in my local database information about what movie I choose is sent across the internet.

IMHO software should give you control about any information sent through the internet for privacy reasons.
Usually open source is very discret on that topic which is one of the reasons preople choose open source over closed source software.

grubi.

 

[grubi]

Just took a look at the source.

It seems that the previous behavour was to download the images from internet only when pressing update as there are fragments of this which are commented out. The downside of this behavour is that you could not update the images without changing the movie information. Maybe this is the reason it was changed.

Now the download is started in the OnPageLoad() method which means it happens every time movie information is displayed.

The best way for me seems to download the images when a button of the spin control is pressed for the first time.

I'm thinking about modifying it this way however not sure if the devs would apply it to the release.

grubi.

 

[Redsquirrel]

i was under the impression that when using myfilms, it saves the imdb information in a database?

 

[grubi]

i was under the impression that when using myfilms, it saves the imdb information in a database?

Are you talking about the 3rd party myfilms plugin? Then AFAIK this is correct.
What I stated is valid for the built in myvideo plugin.
But as it seems nobody cares