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finalizer
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 Posted - 24 May 2003 : 13:47:01
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Basically this one is directed to Purple Bytes.. Though Allessio
might have to work for some of those to be implemented ;)
I quite like the movie cards as they are, but in my opinion they do
lack some functions that could be implemented :
In navigation.html :
• more filter indexes :
- by country (to see only french films for example)
• more sort indexes :
- by director (it would be cool to have all movies
from the same director subsequent)
- by director/title
- by director/year/(title)
- by original title
- by media language/(title)
by media language/(director)
(ie all english, french, serbo-crotian or
whatever language is the file together with a secondary sort
by title or director)
- by country /(title)
- by country /(director)
(to have all films sorted by country)
- by creator/(id asc) (if user wants to see
all rips from the same person/group subsequent)
A timestamp added for the last update :
Last update : DD/Month/Year hh:mm where the date is the date of the last export.
(I find it annoying to edit the navigation.html every time I make an update which is 2 or 3 times a month. may be a js func that reads a text file containing the timestamp ?)
In the movie cards themselves :
• the possibility to actually export html code (I know i requested
this one some time ago to Allessio and at the time it seem to be
problematic.
Well my problem is that I have a lot of separate subtitles files
wich ch i would like to be directly downloadable from the movie
card. To this effect I can use html code in the subtitle field (or
the note field if the code is more than 256 chars long) which is
perfectly rendered inside eMM in moviecard view, but is not
exported by the export engine
• Definitely LEADING ZEROS on images names at export time on
at least 5 digits (ie 00001.jpg instead of 1.jpg for easy filing
(I like to have 100 following 99 instead of 100 following 10,
especially when i update the site images and dont want to go back
and forth on the list. And rather 8 digits (5 digits for
the movie ID, followed by one underscore, followed by
2 digits for the cover number (see below) )
• For all movie cards a "All Covers" variation (horizontal at the
bottom of the card may be) (I do collect jpeg posters for
movies, and whenever possible hi-res ones. I'd like to have them
displayable on line :)) Clickable, of course ;), with Id such as :
00001_00.jpg, 00001_01.jpg... 00001_99.jpg
• a related idea : maybe a Thumbnail export for the movie posters
in order to save loading time (ie : 00001_01.jpg the image when
clicked, and "00000_01S.jpg" displayed in the card.
In the export engine 2 minors .ini issues :
• a remember "last Card used" so i don't have to reselect the one
I used last time. ("let see, was it 02 XhtmlDb or IE/Netscape
only ?")
• a remember "last report name used" (I myself use csv exports
with names like "report-YYYY-MM-DD.csv", where i export only
the films added since previous update, which I then load
in excel and copy/paste in the main xls list that i dont
want to redesign at every export. If i have just to
change the MM-DD part in the name, instead of retyping
the all thing, all the better ;)
• I've made a custom none.jpg :
at the moment I copied it in the Covers folder under another
name (000_none.jpg) and whenever a film has no covers (short movies
are difficult in this regard) I assign it this one. However,
at export time, the file is then copied as movie_id.jpg. It's
quite a waste of disk space, since the same image could be reused
for every film that has no cover. So couldn't it be possible
by default to make the export engine use the none.jpg image if
a film has no cover ? (ie if no cover img src="none.jpg" instead
of an empty string or the movie id.
In the Import Engine :
• That one is gonna sound weird : add a .jpg/gif/bmp scan to
"mass file add".
Once again it's poster related. Let say i've got a bunch of
posters only files (some 6000 at the moment, growing). I don't
necesseraly have the films that goes with it, But i'd like
to build a Poster database (and export cards later) with the usual
info.
Of course i can manually rename the jpg file .jpg.avi in order
to do a mass file add and import the info from IMDB, then rename
them back to their original extension... I think you see the
problem here (i see one in the scan though, you'd have to discard
codec check for the image types and of course a poster only movie
card would be needed with only the film info and no file/codec
related information)
Well, I think that in the "not so easy to implement ideas" and "this guy must be crazy can't he see the work that it implies" field, I've thrown my 2 cents for today ;) I'll leave you to ponder whether
to start immediately or ban me forever to post this kind of nonsense ;)
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Eric B. |
Edited by - finalizer on 31 Jul 2003 11:45:29 |
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Romio
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Netherlands
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Posted - 21 Jun 2003 : 09:47:59
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Yes, the problem is on the Script, it takes only one language, not more. We will try to fix it.
Alessio |
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barno
Starting Member
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Posted - 21 Jun 2003 : 10:32:20
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I don't think it is the script.
I played a little with this part of the script.
No matter what I tried I only got one language. |
Edited by - barno on 21 Jun 2003 10:34:16 |
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Romio
Starting Member
Netherlands
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Posted - 21 Jun 2003 : 12:09:44
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OK, I will see if there is problems in the Engine too.
Alessio |
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barno
Starting Member
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Posted - 21 Jun 2003 : 13:13:27
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If you do so you should take a look at the country-import.
It seems to be the same problem there.
Here is a link to a movie with more than one country: http://us.imdb.com/Title?0279113. |
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Romio
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Netherlands
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Posted - 21 Jun 2003 : 14:20:09
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OK, I will fix both  |
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Movie Card ideas