Quoting ruineddaydreams:

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so I finally got around to checking this out... very cool, but I am having a stupid problem. I am trying to use this to fill in the blanks on a profile that I already created, but is totally empty. I can't seem to figure out how to transfer the scan and inputed data into the actual profile. I think my mistake is I assumed this was automatic, or a simple button press, or copy/paste. But i only find new profile creation or save as xml... and I cant figure out what to do next...

Let me know so I can continue to test this out.

Thanks for the hard work!

Hmmm, I didn't think of that case ... 

I'll try to put an option in for that.

Quoting ruineddaydreams:

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So I should make a new profile with the tool then copy/paste and then delete the newly created?

No, I thought your case was different (see below). If you create a new profile with DVDPca, you can edit it within DVDP as normal. Caveat, at the moment, there is a bug where I forgot to do a save after the Edit Profile that is called within the plugin. But if you exit the plugin, you can edit the newly created profile normally. No need to copy/paste and delete it. That bug should be fixed next release.

Your case, I thought, was: beginning with an existing profile, start the plugin and scan a DVD, then I thought you wanted to update the existing profile with data from the just scanned disc - there is no menu for that yet, but I was planning to add it. Was my understanding incorrect?

Quoting ruineddaydreams:

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No you were 100% correct. I already created the UPC code, title, and added personal info. I want to go back and now fill out those profiles. The problem is the plugin says "error upc already exists" and nothing happens. I have yet been able to get the gleamed info into a profile at all, new or existing... so obviously I am missing something somewhere.

I thought I could create a new profile using the tool. then use dvdp to copy / paste that info into my already existing profile that I want to fill out. But I can't even figure out how to do that. I am usually pretty good with computers and programs, but this has me stumped. Surely I am having a senile moment and it's actually quite easy. What am I missing?

You didn't miss anything. As I said before, I didn't consider that case, so the tool doesn't support it yet. Now I understand what you meant - as a workaround, you could copy/paste from the new profile (using a manual profileID), then delete it. So I think the step you missed is the fact that you need to use a different, temporary, profileID for the new profile that you eventually intend to delete.

Next release, I will fix this. But until then, you can use your workaround, or use the scenario that I originally had in mind: first create the new profile with tool, then use DVDP to finish adding personal and other DVD info.

DVDPca V1.18 Available  (V1.17 Withdrawn)

- Added subtitles supported in DVDP 3.8.1
- Added menu item for copying scanned info into an existing profile
- Suppressed the V1 IFO scan. Now only V2 is available
- Fixed: Error in saving edited profile immediately after profile creation
- Fixed: Other features was not transferred to created profile
- Improved tooltip for UPC/EAN
- Fixed: Error in manual profile entry in UPC/EAN field
- Quick fix to V1.17 to remove profile delete on error during update

As usual, please make sure that you have backups for any database on which this plugin is used.

Also, please note that as new functions are added to this (and any other) plugin, my ability to throroughly test gets reduced dramatically as the number of features increases. Take extra care in evaluating whether the plugin is producing the results you expect, and promptly report any serious errors. Thanks in advance for this.

Thanks. For once, seems like I got a decent error trap. I'll take a look at the code. It probably means that folder is not on the disc. If that's all it is, I can certainly handle that case more gracefully and continue processing. By the way, if you have the ability to "explore" the BD folders, could you either post or PM me the listing - example: "dir D:\*.* /s > c:\bdfolders.txt" creates a text file that will tell me how the disc is laid out. Just copy / paste the contents of bdfolders.txt.

Ok, got it. Thanks! For easier browsing, feel free to delete the post at your convenience.

Edit: My hunch was correct. My code was assuming the existence of a folder, that in fact was not present on that disc (the Movie Title is usually in an XML file in that folder). The fix is coded, but I'll wait a few days to see if any other bugs crop up that I can fix and package into a new release. Thanks again for the diagnostic help. If you absolutely need it sooner, PM me.

Quoting Parsec:

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*gulp* I'm in trouble, mediadogg is going to kill me....

I, um, err, umm, found out why DVDPca wasn't working on my system

I don't use Windows Media Player... Seems once it's enabled in Windows DVDPca now works fine without the error.

Great. Glad you figured it out. We will all be smarter when it happens to the next guy! 

It does make me wonder if I could detect that, and send a message to the user. So, there was definitely some good that came from the experience. If it makes you feel any better, I still consider it to be a bug. No program should ever fail. If the data is bad, or the system is bad, or whatever, the program should handle it and give the user some information. That's the theory - kind of impossible to do in practice, especially when there are so many layers of programs that one individual does not control.

Quoting Parsec:

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Best to add it to the list of dependencies I think. "Requires .NET 2.0 and Windows Media Player"

Good idea.    Done. And I think it solves an old issue with LoadDVD Pro - just have to dig through the threads, PMs and emails to find who the user was that had the problem. It was a while back.