Windows 8 Announcement

Preliminary assessment is that LoadDVDProV2.34 works as expected on Windows 8, with the exception that the Netflix icon does not light up correctly. I'm working on it.

Edit: Joy of joys. False alarm. I had the clock set incorrectly on my Windows 8 system, so the Netflix system was rejecting the API calls. Not only does it still work, but even better. The Netflix Login and Silverlight installation was requested and went smoothly directly from the LoadDVD window. Afterwards, browsing for new instant movies and playing them flowed seamlessly in the same Silverlight window. This did not work as well in Windows 7.

Hey Rich,

Long time no e-chat... just realized a problem that is happpening with 2.38 and 2.34pro...  multi-disk movies have a limitation of no more than 9 disks otherwise 10 and beyond do NOT appear in drop down selection when selecting disk icon to play.

Thanks.

Usage Tip: Automation commands for playing discs using Sony CX-7000ES RS232 port.

In this example, the Sony unit is connected to the PC named "mainhtpc-64." It is using code set 1, hence named cx7kcom1, and connected on COM6. This information is filled in either manually or automatically in the automation table of the automation server on mainhtpc-64. The automation server can be either a/v DashBoard, or LoadDVD Pro.

Furthermore, I want to create entries in the database so that it remains the same regardless of which system I am loading the database.

So, I will define an "action command" called "PlayBD". This command I will put in the Location field of each disc that I want to automate. Action commands are surrounded by brakets [].

So, Location = [PlayBD]

The changer slot where the disc is located is placed in the Slot field, lets say it is 297.

So, Slot = 297

(1) On the mainhtpc-64 system, the a/v Dashboard or LoadDVD automation table has the following entry to define the action command PlayBD:

[DEV] cx7kcom1 [DSC] %slot% [MCH] [CMD] mount        - this will cause the changer to load disc 297.

(2) On remote systems running LoadDVD, the Location and Slot fields are exactly the same, so we can use the same database everywhere. However, the LoadDVD automation table is specific to each PC, and for a remote system, we define PlayBD as:

[RON] mainhtpc-64 [DEV] cx7kcom1 [DSC] %rslot% [MCH] [CMD] mount [ROF]

Notice the use of %rslot% instead of %slot% - this means that LoadDVD on the remote system substitues the slot number before sending the command to the automation server.

I hope this encourages someone to experiment with a/v Automation. It is very powerful and dirt cheap (mostly free).

There are more features in the works, and more usage tips will be published.

Also, don't forget this handy guide for sending commands to DVDP from any network client, such as your own PC script, iPad, Android, Unix or whatever. You can make your own DVDP controller!

Announcement - Restrictions when running on Remote Database
You will experience serious errors using any function of LoadDVD Pro that attempts to modify a profile, which Invelos does not allow from the client of a remote database.

- MyLinks Import
- Filepath Add

A future release will implement this restriction and remove the error situation.

I just recovered from a site crash at www.mediadogg.com/shopping

I would appreciate it if a couple of Pro users try to Login with your original userid and password. If that doesn't work, request a new password and see if that works.

I want to make sure that people can login to continue to get free upgrades in the future.

Thanks in advance for any reports. Edit: reported privately, all OK.

Hi mediadogg,

I'm playing around with this plugin and have three feature-requests:

1. Trailers:
I can import trailers from a folder when they're stored in a subfolder named by the profile's collection number. That's nice, but since the collection number might change when I reassign them after selling a dvd / blu-ray, it would be better to store trailers by the profile's id.
This would also be the same way DVD Profiler stores CreditPhotos and ScenePhotos.

So here's the request: can you add a 'Load trailers based on ID' menu item?

2. DefaultPlaylist:
I created a playlist named 'DefaultPlaylist.wpl' and stored it in 'ScenePhotos\%id%'.
This works great, but I don't like the idea to store playlists in 'ScenePhotos'.

So here's the request: can you make an option to change this folder, so I could create a separate 'Playlists'-folder?

The idea behind these two requests is, that I could create a folder structure, which is somewhat "standardized":

.\ScenePhotos\%id%\ -> Scene photos
.\Trailer\%id%\ -> Trailers
.\Playlists\%id%\ -> Playlists

3. Can you add an option to autostart playing the 'DefaultPlaylist', if it is found, when switching profiles?

(1)



(2)
Quoting mediadogg: (Last Post on the first page of this thread)

Quote:
One other thing. Do you care if the default directory is \ScenePhotos or \CreditPhotos? If so, I'm pretty sure that a DVDP backup/restore will preserve the playlist files with the database. Or should I make an option to set the default directory?

Edit: Ok, I have played around with this, and I like it. When there is nothing in the Playlist Editor, clicking on the Playlist button will read the contents of DefaultPlaylist.m3u or .wpl or .html, searched for in that order in the \User\Documents\ScenePhotos\ProfileID folder. Now looking into refinements such as customized locations for \ScenePhotos.

(1) There would no need to add a second path for the trailer folder, simply add a second menu item 'Add Trailers based on ProfileID' would suffice.

(2) Well, what I've quoted, still works. So it's somewhere in your code.

(4)


'All Credit Photos', 'All Scene Photos' (there's a typo in Scene) and 'All Credit & Scene Photos' (the & is missing!) are doing what I expected - and I will never use them again, I really do have too many pictures...

But 'Displayed DVD Cast/Crew' doesn't. It will show all scene photos for the displayed DVD, but no cast/crew.

I guess this is, because the plugin looks for a '.\CreditPhotos\%id%' folder, which I don't have.
But I have lots of cast/crew pictures in '.\CreditPhotos' which are correctly named, so that DVD Profiler will find them.

Though I don't know if this is possible at all, but it would be great when you could access cast/crew data of the active profile and add the credit photos of the assigned people.