Multiformat video db plugin with search...

[blader_se]

I'd like to have a way to organize movies on my hd. I have a mix of mpeg2, Divx (Xvid) and iso movies, so I guess VideoArchiver can't help me yet. And also earlier version of the built in VideoLibrary could only handle mpeg2 and did not have a search function (I think it can't do searching yet?)


Currently I use Xrecord and export everything into .dat files, so a first idea would be that it could be able to spider (on request and periodically) my file system for .dat files and incorporate that info into the database.

Secondly I would like to be able to search the database, and then play found files (including .iso, which I think Xrecord currently don't handle).

Not sure what I would like to search for, but I guess a combination of the information currently found in .dat files and imdb would be a good start.

Have anyone been looking around this?

[Jeff]

The video archiver should be able to do this. You can extend the list of video file types to be whatever you want in the config app. It will also look for .iso files and allow you to play them as long as you are running a PC and the .iso files are under a DVD directory that you have specified in the config app. It will lookup info for .iso files of the internet just like any other video file. You can run the getdvdinfo utility once and it will go fetch whatever it can find for all the video and .iso files under your dvd directories.

With respect to the .dat files, if you send me a few I could add support for importing them to the video archive plug-in. Are they always found in the same directory as the video file with the same root file name and a .dat extension?

Jeff

[blader_se]

That souns great. Yes, the .dat file is placed in the same directory as the .mpg (note that the extension is movie.mpg.dat for movie.mpg).

I'll send you a couple of .dat files.

Thanks