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Launch Local TRAILERs!
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DVD Profiler Unlimited Registrantjonnyringo2007
Registered: March 30, 2007
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OK first of all, great product great site, and good job, it's been a long while since any official update, this is a pleasant surprise.

Sorry if this has been mentioned before I did do a search someone correct me if I've over looked this.

THIS IS AN ABSOLUTE MUST HAVE FEATURE!
There really needs to be a built in native link to a launch a local trailer. - it's an absolute no brainer for making your program the premier if it isn't already.

To support my claim consider the following;

# Storage space has increased profoundly as has bandwidth many of us download regular as well as HD trailers for movies we own or of coming attractions


# Doesn't it make sense to everyone else that it would be nice to have a link to launch a trailer that you have stored locally, your default media player could simply open and play it


# I've read that there are / were certain skins with the old version of DVDP that could play trailers, that constrains us to certain skins/layouts not good, and maybe too difficult for the average end user, native ability to directly launch a trailer would be the coolest feature this program could have in my honest humble opinion


I hope others will reply and encourage the developer(s) to include this feature or make a plug in available A.S.A.P.

My collections getting big, close to 1000, I'd hook a trailer up for every single one I could find too.

PS, again I'm looking for the ability to (either turn on or off depending on user preference) a "Play Trailer" button/link that you would could set up very simply by browsing to a common location with the trailer file ETA: C:\MyTrailers\Aliens_HD_Trailer.mov  and the DVDP database would store the information,  ETC.  I'm sure everyone gets the idea, just being thorough.

My compliments again on an outstanding product!
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar Contributornorthbloke
Registered: March 15, 2007
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I posted this in the other topic before I knew you'd started this one:
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As a suggestion, how about you enable html in the notes section, and simply add a hyperlink to a locally stored movie file? I'm assuming that's the sort of thing you're after and it wouldn't need any updates to the program.
I'm guessing something along the lines of:
<a href="file://C:\MyTrailers\Aliens_HD_Trailer.mov">Play Trailer</a>
should work...


as I said, should work... 
DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile RegistrantMarcCastermans
Registered: March 15, 2007
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Skins/Layouts like those of Roolku and Mithirandir support trailers since the beginning of mankind

If you don't wanna use another layout, Northbloke's suggestion should do the trick.
Greetz,
Marc Castermans

DVD Profiler Unlimited Registrantnuoyaxin
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Registered: March 13, 2007
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You could try this code:

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<HTML>
<HEAD>
<SCRIPT TYPE="text/javascript">
<!--
<DP NAME="HEADER_VARS" Language="JavaScript" Comments="True" IncludeCast="False" IncludeCrew="False">
//-->
</SCRIPT>
// Play video in new window
function playVideo()
{
var trailer = ("Path/To/Video/Folder/" + DP_UPC + ".mov");
OpenWindow=window.open('', 'videowindow', config='width=700,height=500,resizable=yes,scrollbars=no,toolbar=no,copyhistory=no,location=no,directories=no,status=no,menubar=no');
OpenWindow.document.write("<HTML>");
OpenWindow.document.write("<TITLE>My Embedded Video</TITLE>");
OpenWindow.document.write("<BODY BGCOLOR=000000>");
OpenWindow.document.write("<EMBED SRC='" + trailer + "'width='320' height='256' autoplay='true'></EMBED>");
OpenWindow.document.write("</BODY>");
OpenWindow.document.write("</HTML>");
OpenWindow.document.close();
self.name="main";
}
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<a href='#' onclick="playVideo()"><img src='Path/To/Image/image.jpg' /></a>
</BODY>
</HTML>

and place it in a HTML window. then put all the trailers in one folder, naming them by UPC. This way you don't have to manually edit all the Notes field.

I believe Mithirandir tried it and found it works (or at least looked at it and thought it should work).
Achim [諾亞信; Ya-Shin//Nuo], a German in Taiwan.
Registered: May 29, 2000 (at InterVocative)
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar Contributornorthbloke
Registered: March 15, 2007
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I've done a bit of tweaking with the above code and ended up with this:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<SCRIPT TYPE="text/javascript">
<!--
<DP NAME="HEADER_VARS" Language="JavaScript" Comments="True" IncludeCast="False" IncludeCrew="False">
//-->
</SCRIPT>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<script>
function playVideo()
{
var OpenWindow=window.open('', 'newwindow', config='height=512, width=640, toolbar=no, menubar=no, scrollbars=no, resizable=yes, location=no, directories=no, status=no');
var UPC=("<DP NAME="UPC" Formatted="false">")
OpenWindow.document.write ("<body leftmargin='0px' topmargin='0px' marginwidth='0px' marginheight='0px'>")
OpenWindow.document.write ("<EMBED SRC='file://c:/Users/Public/Videos/Trailers/" + UPC + ".wmv' width='640' height='512' autoplay='true'></EMBED>")
OpenWindow.document.close ()
}
var Size=DP_Tags.length+1
var x=0;
for (x=0; x<Size; x++)
{
if (DP_Tags[x]=="Trailer")
{
document.write ("<a  href='playVideo()'>Play the '<DP NAME="TITLE" ShowDesc="false">' Trailer</a>")
}
}
</script>
</BODY>
</HTML>

Just add it to a HTML section and it should display a hyperlink which creates a new window with embeded video.
It requires that you add a tag called "Trailer" and check it for every film you have a trailer for. This version works with wmv files that have the same name as the unformatted UPC code and are stored in c:/Users/Public/Videos/Trailers/
though it should be easy enough to customize to different settings.
I added the tag so that only films with a trailer will get the hyperlink.
DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile RegistrantBill MacNeill
Bill
Registered: March 13, 2007
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Does anyone know of a site that has movie trailers for download? I am looking for old and new ones that I cannot rip off of DVD's
DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile RegistrantOliver K
Registered: April 11, 2007
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northbloke,

this sounds very interesting.
Would it also be possible to have DVDProfiler start playback of a movie I have on a harddrive ?
Let's say I have the movie Bugsy on harddrive C in file form and want to use powerdvd (C:\Programs\Powerdvd\powerdvd.exe) to play it back, would that be possible ?

Would it be possible to add this somewhere to the description of every movie with the option to add the exact location of the file in question ?

There are other programs like mainlobby that do this but I always keep going back to DVDprofiler which is just so superior in every other aspect.

Thanks !

Oliver
DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile Registrantpauls42
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Quoting wtmac:
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Does anyone know of a site that has movie trailers for download? I am looking for old and new ones that I cannot rip off of DVD's


look at Daves Trailer Page
Paul
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar Contributornorthbloke
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Quoting Oliver K:
Quote:

Would it also be possible to have DVDProfiler start playback of a movie I have on a harddrive ?
Let's say I have the movie Bugsy on harddrive C in file form and want to use powerdvd (C:\Programs\Powerdvd\powerdvd.exe) to play it back, would that be possible ?

Would it be possible to add this somewhere to the description of every movie with the option to add the exact location of the file in question ?

There are other programs like mainlobby that do this but I always keep going back to DVDprofiler which is just so superior in every other aspect.

Thanks !

Oliver


That's going to be a bit more difficult, but I'm sure the code could be adapted to do something close to what you want it to do. I'll have a play and see what I can do. I'm assuming you store the movies on the hard drive as direct DVD rips?
DVD Profiler Unlimited Registrantmithirandir
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Registered: March 13, 2007
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Quoting Oliver K:
Quote:
nWould it also be possible to have DVDProfiler start playback of a movie I have on a harddrive ?
Let's say I have the movie Bugsy on harddrive C in file form and want to use powerdvd (C:\Programs\Powerdvd\powerdvd.exe) to play it back, would that be possible ?

Would it be possible to add this somewhere to the description of every movie with the option to add the exact location of the file in question ?


My skin included that feature since version 1.54. 
Best regards,

Mithirandir

http://www.dvd-live.de

Download Mithirandir's Skin v1.54  from
here!

Description / ReadMe's on Page 66!
DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile RegistrantOliver K
Registered: April 11, 2007
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Quoting northbloke:
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That's going to be a bit more difficult, but I'm sure the code could be adapted to do something close to what you want it to do. I'll have a play and see what I can do. I'm assuming you store the movies on the hard drive as direct DVD rips?


Most of my movies consist only of just a single ts-file or H264 file and I do indeed store them directly on the harddrive.

Thanks !

Oliver
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DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile RegistrantOliver K
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Quoting mithirandir:
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My skin included that feature since version 1.54. 


So where can I download it and give it a try ?
In your signature you only link to version 1.53

Thanks !

Oliver
DVD Profiler Unlimited Registrantmithirandir
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Quoting Oliver K:
Quote:
Quoting mithirandir:
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My skin included that feature since version 1.54. 


So where can I download it and give it a try ?
In your signature you only link to version 1.53


Currently: Nowhere. 
This is because v1.60 (the DVD-Profiler 3.0 version) is currently in beta stadium. You can, of course, mail me and I will send it to you. 
Best regards,

Mithirandir

http://www.dvd-live.de

Download Mithirandir's Skin v1.54  from
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