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Moving Pictures is a movies plug-in for the MediaPortal media center application. The goal of the plug-in is to create a very focused and refined experience that requires minimal user interaction. The plug-in emphasizes usability and ease of use in managing a movie collection consisting of ripped DVDs, and movies reencoded in common video formats supported by MediaPortal.
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Support Import of Offline DVDs via UPC Scanning #523

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Moving Pictures is great.  I am thrilled with the tool and really like the 
backdrop images as well.  Since I am not a programming, and have limited 
design skills, thought I would contribute some ideas.  Let me know if there 
are other ways I can help out.

DVD Profiler is a nice catalogue tool.  It can allow UPC codes to get to 
the exact cover art etc.  http://www.invelos.com/

The link is here incase you were not familiar.

Ideas are as follows:

1)  Less difficult: Import the XML based export from DVD Profiler to Moving 
Pictures including the cover art that is specified by UPC code.  A sample 
XML file is attached.

2)  More difficult: Is there a way to input the UPC code in the Moving 
Pictures database to cue up a more exact match in the movie importer?  This 
would save steps in DVD Profiler and just make the whole process work 
within Moving Pictures.

Hope this is filled out correctly and doesn't waste anyones time.  Thanks 
again for the great plugin!

Original issue reported on code.google.com by iadm...@gmail.com on 31 Aug 2009 at 11:52

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Scraping a local XML file is supported in the current svn revision (and will be 
in 
the 0.8 release) this means you can use any local metadata you like to add 
movie 
details, covers or backdrops. You have to write a script once but i think there 
the 
community will quickly come up with several common 3rd party scripts.

We haven't thought about UPC as a search property maybe that's something we can 
add 
in the future.

Original comment by apond...@gmail.com on 1 Sep 2009 at 9:44

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
apondman is right, with the next release it will be possible to import movies 
via an 
XML file like you are referring to. If there is demand we may consider writing 
such a 
script ourselves, but most likely this will need to be created by the community.

As for UPC scanning of DVDs, this is a fantastic idea and would be a great way 
to 
quickly import offline DVDs. I am not sure about the feasibility, but we will 
definitely look into it.

Original comment by conrad.john on 14 Nov 2009 at 7:22

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Retagged the version number for this issue. This is not a rescheduling, we 
are just changing our version number scale.

Original comment by conrad.john on 29 Nov 2009 at 8:09

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
i dont use the dvd part but when i did i have a older libary program that used 
your
web cam to scan the bar code (like this 
http://www.collectorz.com/movie/dvd_library.php)

Original comment by mark_car...@yahoo.com on 7 Jan 2010 at 12:07

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Original comment by conrad.john on 31 Jan 2011 at 1:23