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<blockquote data-quote="cyberquixote" data-source="post: 153907" data-attributes="member: 24539"><p>Thanks for your quick response zebon! Let me restate my unclear suggestions/issues with more information...</p><p></p><p>1) the <SortTitle> field in DVDP is based on the movie title, but is one that can be used for sorting (and makes more sense for filenames etc I think). It removes words like "A" and "The" at the beginning of the title. For example for "The little mermaid" <Title> is "The Little Mermaid", but <SortTitle> is "Little Mermaid". As it stands now, sorting by title in MF has all movies starting with "A ..." at the beginning which is not typically expected. </p><p></p><p>2) The <Tags> tag in DVDP Is essentially a user definable classification. As far as I know, in DVDP, there is no way to edit the values that can be in the <Genre> tag, so you are limited to the standard "Action", "Adventure" etc... <Tags> lets you add values like "My favorites" or "Kid Friendly" to your movies. It seems there can be as many as you want and each DVD can contain as many as you like. They also allow imposing a hierarchy on the tags (i.e. can have "My Favorites/SciFi" and "My Favorites/Fantasy")</p><p>an example in the xml is:</p><p> <Tags></p><p> <Tag Name="My Favorites" FullName="My Favorites"/></p><p> <Tag Name="SciFi" FullName="My Favorites/SciFi"/></p><p> </Tags></p><p>which is a child of <DVD></p><p></p><p>I don't know what is practical to implement in MF, as I don't know what the parallel is in Ant, or if there is one. I for one, would be fairly happy if they were just merged with genre during translation and "Fullname" was always used so the hierarchy could be ignored.</p><p></p><p>3) The DVD directory thing: I have several large disks which contain dvds in directories. Each disk has a few subdirectories for genre, then each genre directory contains many directories which are titles of movies and contain the dvd hierarchy (so d:\vids\scifi\dune and d:\vids\scifi\dark_city both contain video_ts/video_ts.ifo etc). I guess, ideally, I would like something where for that case I could enter like "D:\vids;e:\vids;f:\vids" in the "Paths for Movies File Search", then when searching for "dune" it would automatically look in subdirectories below each of those to find the directory scifi/dune and the realize it was a DVD folder and open scifi/dune/video_ts/video_ts.ifo. The major goal is in my mind is not to need to enter a string for every DVD which leads to likely errors. It is not so bad if I have to go change my naming convention of the directories a bit, but would really hate to need to go type in a big string for every movie, and I will probably typo many of them <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>From what I have gathered, my directory structure is not a very unique case, so I assume there would be some desire for this...</p><p></p><p>Thanks for making a great plugin for media portal!</p><p></p><p>Parker</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cyberquixote, post: 153907, member: 24539"] Thanks for your quick response zebon! Let me restate my unclear suggestions/issues with more information... 1) the <SortTitle> field in DVDP is based on the movie title, but is one that can be used for sorting (and makes more sense for filenames etc I think). It removes words like "A" and "The" at the beginning of the title. For example for "The little mermaid" <Title> is "The Little Mermaid", but <SortTitle> is "Little Mermaid". As it stands now, sorting by title in MF has all movies starting with "A ..." at the beginning which is not typically expected. 2) The <Tags> tag in DVDP Is essentially a user definable classification. As far as I know, in DVDP, there is no way to edit the values that can be in the <Genre> tag, so you are limited to the standard "Action", "Adventure" etc... <Tags> lets you add values like "My favorites" or "Kid Friendly" to your movies. It seems there can be as many as you want and each DVD can contain as many as you like. They also allow imposing a hierarchy on the tags (i.e. can have "My Favorites/SciFi" and "My Favorites/Fantasy") an example in the xml is: <Tags> <Tag Name="My Favorites" FullName="My Favorites"/> <Tag Name="SciFi" FullName="My Favorites/SciFi"/> </Tags> which is a child of <DVD> I don't know what is practical to implement in MF, as I don't know what the parallel is in Ant, or if there is one. I for one, would be fairly happy if they were just merged with genre during translation and "Fullname" was always used so the hierarchy could be ignored. 3) The DVD directory thing: I have several large disks which contain dvds in directories. Each disk has a few subdirectories for genre, then each genre directory contains many directories which are titles of movies and contain the dvd hierarchy (so d:\vids\scifi\dune and d:\vids\scifi\dark_city both contain video_ts/video_ts.ifo etc). I guess, ideally, I would like something where for that case I could enter like "D:\vids;e:\vids;f:\vids" in the "Paths for Movies File Search", then when searching for "dune" it would automatically look in subdirectories below each of those to find the directory scifi/dune and the realize it was a DVD folder and open scifi/dune/video_ts/video_ts.ifo. The major goal is in my mind is not to need to enter a string for every DVD which leads to likely errors. It is not so bad if I have to go change my naming convention of the directories a bit, but would really hate to need to go type in a big string for every movie, and I will probably typo many of them ;) From what I have gathered, my directory structure is not a very unique case, so I assume there would be some desire for this... Thanks for making a great plugin for media portal! Parker [/QUOTE]
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