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Quoting ObiKen:
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My understanding is the rules for title apply to the title from the front cover only
But that would mean that none of the rules for title (for example capitalization) applies to the original title. That doesn't seem right to me. | Posted: Topic Replies: 3, Topic Views: 81 |
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TmdbInfo 3.0
This version adds several features. The main part of Television has been re-written.
- You can select which episodes of a TV season to display (and copy for pasting into DVD Profiler). This makes it possible to select episodes for half seasons, or for best-of compilations.
- Default name parsing has been significantly improved.
- Names show by color how they are parsed, similar to DVD Profiler. If the default parsing is incorrect, you can change it, and that parsing will be remembered.
The main purpose of TmdbInfo is still the ability to browse The Movie Database (TMDB) in a useful manner. While it can be used to copy cast and crew for pasting into DVD Profiler, it is not nearly as useful as DJ's CastCrewEdit. BUT unlike CastCrewEdit it is stable, since it doesn't depend on screen scraping. So, if CastCrewEdit isn't working for you, TmdbInfo can be plan B.
And, with both CastCrewEdit and TmdbInfo, you can use the info freely for your own collection, but if you want to contribute it to DVD Profiler's online database, you need to verify it against the actual cast and crew listings on your discs.
My tool CastCrewCheck can be helpful in that regard. | Posted: Topic Replies: 0, Topic Views: 28 |
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I'm a bit confused about this (UPD 027616-862648):
It is entered as follows:
Title: "X": The Man With the X-Ray Eyes
Original title: "X"
There are multiple releases of this movie. But there seems to be a lot of confusion regarding the quotes.
The rules say 'Do not include quotes if they surround the entire title.'
It seems to me that the title is correct in this instance, but the original title is not. It ought to be just X (without quotes) since that is the entire (original) title. There are multiple other releases of this movie, but most of them looks to be incorrect. Many omit the quotes in the Title. One omits them in the Title but adds them in the Original Title, which seems really odd.
Any thoughts? | Posted: Topic Replies: 3, Topic Views: 81 |
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Are you asking about the iOS app? If so, I don't know of any way to save layouts.
If you meant in the Desktop program (and you just accidentally posted in the wrong forum), then the answer is Documents / DVD Profiler / Layouts. | Posted: Topic Replies: 1, Topic Views: 87 |
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I have no idea why this happens, but "access denied" suggests that the file is locked for some reason. And rebooting can often fix things like that.
Strictly speaking, this most likely is a Windows problem rather than a DVD Profiler problem. When one is faced with a Windows problem, rebooting should always be tried. "Have you tried closing the program and opening it again?" may be an old meme, but it often works. And when the program is Windows, rebooting is the way to do that.
A lesson learned from a life working with computers …  | Posted: Topic Replies: 4, Topic Views: 194 |
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| Have you tried rebooting your PC? | Posted: Topic Replies: 4, Topic Views: 194 |
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| Probably not going to happen. See other solutions in this forum. | Posted: Topic Replies: 1, Topic Views: 251 |
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Quoting MB17:
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Does it work between two desktop (windows) installations?
Unfortunately no. | Posted: Topic Replies: 28, Topic Views: 12592 |
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Quoting MB17:
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I only use the DVDProfiler Online method to keep my DVDP synced, just tried now between my PC, my Mac and iPad, which is very easy. Why use any other method?
The advantages of using the wi-fi method to sync:
- You get two way syncing. Changes on the desktop program gets synced to the phone AND changes on the phone gets synced to the desktop app.
- Custom cover scans get transferred.
- It's simpler (just two clicks in the phone app).
- It works even if the web site should be down.
How much of an advantages this is depends on how you use DVD Profiler. | Posted: Topic Replies: 28, Topic Views: 12592 |
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First rule of DVD Profiler:
If anything goes wrong, try doing a Database Repair. | Posted: Topic Replies: 2, Topic Views: 443 |
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| You could try ProfilerQuery. | Posted: Topic Replies: 2, Topic Views: 425 |
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Quoting flamanar:
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Hmm. I don't know if something broke again, but I'm having serious database issues. A massive amount of error messages, requiring me to hard-close DVDprofiler. I tried to repair the database, and that didn't help, either. I also tried to use the online collection to sync it to my PC-based collection (or vice versa). A plethora of errors there as well. At this point, I'd be happy just being able to export my collection to almost ANYTHING else, so that I don't lose my collection record. Is anyone currently able to use DVDprofiler, and NOT have large numbers of errors?? Thanks in advance. Hoping that the lights haven't gone out here. flamanar
That’s definitely a local problem. Try this:
- Create a new database.
- if you have a backup of your old database, restore this into the new database. If not download from your online collection.
If this still doesn’t work:
- Uninstall DVD Profiler (preferably using a 3rd party uninstaller that cleans up everything).
- Re-install DVD Profiler.
- Create a new database and restore. | Posted: Topic Replies: 12, Topic Views: 4190 |
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Others have reported that Profiler works with iOS 26 on their iPhones. I have not seen anyone mentioning problems with 26.1. Hopefully we can hear from someone else who had upgraded.
And, for what it’s worth, Profiler works fine on my iPad with iPadOS 26.1. No connection errors. | Posted: Topic Replies: 5, Topic Views: 1046 |
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BirthYearFinder 2.2.0
The idea with BirthYearFinder is to find entries in your collection that have birth years that differs from the corresponding online profile. And that works fine. The problem has been that you need to verify that the birth years in your collection are the correct ones.
That used to mean having to dig into IMDb for the respective person. That could be a lot of work. I wanted to automate that, but unfortunately IMDb is not very cooperative. So I chose the next best thing. I verified against TMDb (The Movie Database).
This is not perfect. It won't find every person's birth year. But it goes a long way, and significantly reduces the manual labor needed. The TMDb column shows the status of the TMDb lookup, and the BirthYear column is color coded to reflect that status.
If the movie is not found in TMDb using the production year from the profile, I also check the previous and next year. If you select to show the ProdYear column, it will indicate the found production year if it differs from the profile year, for example "!947 [1948]".
Please read the help file for full information. | Posted: Topic Replies: 15, Topic Views: 13777 |
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Quoting mcapple:
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I'd happily pay $100 for a macOS version of DVD Profiler Desktop App. 
Have you considered using VM Fusion? See Nanoron's post here. | Posted: Topic Replies: 8, Topic Views: 5107 |
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Quoting RobAGD:
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It would be nice/interesting to have a tool to move the DB from one phone to another
Collection upload should work now, so upload from your old phone then download to the new. | Posted: Topic Replies: 4, Topic Views: 2577 |
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I upgraded my iPad to iPadOS 26, and as far as I can tell there is no change for Profiler from 18.x
I assume the same will go for iOS 26. | Posted: Topic Replies: 28, Topic Views: 18605 |
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Well, that's a new one! I never heard of that problem before. Glad you got it sorted, though!  | Posted: Topic Replies: 7, Topic Views: 2482 |
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Quoting videoboy:
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Start-tag name „link“ does not match end-tag name „head“
That sounds like it would be a corrupt xml file. But I have no idea why a refresh would load an xml file.
If you are using any plugins, disable them and try again.
If you still get the error, the best suggestion that I can offer is to take a backup of your collection, uninstall DVD Profiler, re-install and restore the backup, then try again. | Posted: Topic Replies: 7, Topic Views: 2482 |
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BirthYearFinder 2.1.0
Added features:
- The "Lookup" context menu item has been removed. Lookup is now done automatically when you left click on a row in the result tab.
- When a title is selected in the IMDb tab, there is an automatic search for the person in question in the cast/crew listings. See the help file for specifics.
- In the forum tab: If you see a URL that is not a hyperlink, you can just highlight that URL and it will automatically be opened in your default browser.
As expected, these functions were not easy to implement. Microsoft Copilot was instrumental in researching how this could be done. I would like to call this AA (Artificial Assistance) rather than AI. It mainly consists of an awful lot of web searching done extremely fast. A task that would be overwhelming if it had to be done manually. More brawn than brain, if you can apply that term to computing. Still invaluable!
PS. I know that AA can also mean something else. Fortunately I have not been in need of that kind of assistance. | Posted: Topic Replies: 15, Topic Views: 13777 |
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| Nothing has changed. DPB is (and has always been) the file extension for Backup files. | Posted: Topic Replies: 1, Topic Views: 985 |
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Here I thought that the latest server upgrade had fixed all server side problems, but it seems that there is one that I haven't encountered before.
Sometimes when I submit a contribution I will get a message that a birth year for a certain person is not needed. But it's not a birth year that I have added. It's a birth year that is already in that profile in the online database.
Anyone else see this? | Posted: Topic Replies: 1, Topic Views: 1029 |
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Now that the problem with adding new birth years to the online database has been solved (!), it might be a good idea to take a look at this tool again.
Just a reminder than you can group the result on more than one field. For example:
Grouping by title first and then by ID lets you easily see if you have double dips with the same cast/crew names that may need an update.
And remember that you can delete the profiles that you have contributed (or don't intend to contribute) and then save the result before you exit the program. That way you can resume again without having to go through the time consuming checking against the online database. How? The help file is your friend.
I intend to take a new look at this tool, to see if I can make it even better. But working with third party controls (both the datagrid and the web browser) can be both a blessing and a curse. While they provide functionality that would be very hard and time consuming to do "manually", there are often things that seem obvious that can be nearly impossible to achieve. So no promises. But suggestions are always welcome. | Posted: Topic Replies: 15, Topic Views: 13777 |
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Quoting Kluge:
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Lee Miller (1907-1977)
Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, Lady Penrose was an American photographer. Born in Poughkeepsie, New York in 1907, she was a successful fashion model in New York City in the 1920s.
Le sang d'un poète
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Miller
http://www.leemiller.co.uk/AboutLM.aspx
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0998525/
Lee Miller (1917)
Actor: Perry Mason, Please Murder Me, Sunset Blvd., The F.B.I., Ironside
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0588795/
Lee Miller (1981)
Actor: The Lovely Bones
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2218989/
Lee Miller (19??)
Writer: 500 Nation
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0588796/
Producer: The Brady Bunch Variety Hour
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0588797/
Actor: Longshot, Foolish
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0588798/
The 1917 Lee Miller is now listed on IMDb as born 1918. | Posted: Topic Replies: 5848, Topic Views: 416839 |
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Quoting specise_8472:
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Good explanation, but I think my issue maybe that newer Intel CPU's have E (efficiently) and P (performance) cores. Do not know if you are running one, but may be a factor in all this on newer CPU's.
And my i9 14900KF has 16 E and 8 P cores. Also does not have graphics on cpu.
Right, and if I understand correctly, the P cores can run two threads and the E cores can run a single thread, so that would be 16 + 16, making it a total maximum of 32 threads. That’s a pretty powerful PC that you have.  | Posted: Topic Replies: 20, Topic Views: 4863 |