@Dedcap:

Simply amazing. I believe you meant to say "HTML" not email, right? Anyway, I tried it and I got a nice HTML report with a search bar. Cool. If you can't make a screen shot, I will - let me know - so people can see how cool it is.

Anyway, a couple of things:

(1) Change RunningTime to RunTime and the automatic parameter function will pick it up
(2) I found a bug that prevents CountryOfOrigin from being picked up - I will fix in the next release
(3) I was trying to make changes that would allow automatic copying of the thumbnails, as in the original smartphone script. Still didn't quite get there - that "shift" business is tricky. Clever how you did that.

Anyway, an impressive piece of work! 

Quoting Dedcap:

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Yes, I'm sorry, didn't know where my mind was when I write this, I fix it, thanks
It'll help me if you could put the screen shot, thanks

(2) ok, I will retrieve it when available, thanks
(3) the shift part was a little bit tricky, the strange thing that audio track and subtitle are not manage in the same way

Thanks for your comment, so many thing to do again

The difference was not intentional. I had problems trying figure out how to handle database fields that could have multiple values - whether to pass the field as a single comma delimited string, or as multiple tokens. What do you suggest? I will fix it - I don't think so many people are using this feature, so you can get what you want.

do you mean that some thumbnail are copy into the specific folder and some not ?
i remember that for copying, it use the id (3566566...) did you check manually if the missing thumbnails are present in the dvd profiler folder with the right id ?

sorry for my english

Quoting nolesrule:

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A bunch of my thumbnails are missing when I tried this using the smartphone file. I can't figure out what the connection is because I don't notice nay pattern.

A bit of confusion here: there is an "official" Smartphone script that comes with the plugin. And there is a more advanced one from Dedcap. To be clear what we are talking about, can we call them Smartphone and Smartphone+ or something like that? Now, which one did you mean? Ha ha ! 

Dedcap, correct me if I'm wrong, but I thnk your Smartphone+ does not copy the thumbnails, right? (I'm working on a plugin fix that will make it easier for you to do that).

But the original Smartphone script - it should work. But yes, as Dedcap says, it can only copy them if they are there.

Yeah, I'm using the one that comes with. Looking at the text from the thumbnail copy, it's acting like the images do not exist, but they do.

It seems that the bug may be in generating the copyfiles.bat file. for the unsuccessful entries, I'm getting lines that don't have a source file. Instead, they are being replaced with some random data. Just a couple of examples...

copy Owned .\smartphone\thumbnails\
copy "Wish List" .\smartphone\thumbnails\ 
copy 1995' .\smartphone\thumbnails\
copy Pixar .\smartphone\thumbnails\ 

I believe that the last 2 are being pulled from tags. And all the ones that show a year in the source file have the single quote after the number.

Quoting nolesrule:

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OK, I think I figured out the cause of the issue. I ran a preview and noticed that the DVDs where the cover images didn't copy over did not contain double quotes around the tag strings. And this only occured when the tag string was 'Year','xxxx' where xxxx is a 4 digit year. If there were any additional tags set or even no tags set, this didn't occur.

Sorry, I missed this post earlier. Thanks for that diagnosis. I got my self into trouble trying to handle .BAT files. The legacy of DOS makes handling of parameters with embedded blanks or quotes a problem. I have some heuristics built in to try and decide when or whether to bracket the parameters with single quotes or double quotes or not at all. I never considered a tag actually having a quote embedded. I'll see what I can do about it.

The rules are (I think):

- if no embedded blanks or double quotes or single quotes, pass a single parameter as an unquoted string

- if no embedded blanks or double quotes or single quotes, pass a multi-valued parameter as a quoted string with the values separated by commas (not sure - maybe they all have single quotes))

- if embedded blanks, use double quotes, unless the string contains double quotes, in which case, convert the embedded double quotes to single quotes first

- parameters with multiple values such as genre, event dates like watched, watched by, tags, etc. are passed as a quoted string with value separated by commas. Tags with embedded quotes were not expected, so I don't convert them to single quotes, causing the .BAT file to see crazy things depending on where the tag falls in the string (a quote mark will terminate the string and start a new parameter where one was not expected).

If it is convenient, you could test my theory by changing one of your quoted tags to use single quotes instead. If that fixes things then I will know how to fix my code in the next release. Oops, now I see that you are using single quotes ... so I need to explore further ....

@nolesrule

You rule! Thanks. I'll start working on some improvements.

BTW, although this has been a great exercise to help me debug my plugin, the best solution for Smartphone might be to tale tlevel up on his offer to modify iPod Exporter to support Smartphones.