Hi,

I have a question, and I apologize in case this has been already posted somewhere.

I use DVD Profiler together with SageTV. In generally this works great and I especially like the integration of DVD Profiler's rating system in SageTV.

However, the problem is that SageTV only supports the U.S. rating system (e.g., PG, PG-13, R, etc.). Foreign rating systems (e.g., from Germany, like FSK-12, FSK-16, etc.) are not supported.

This is why I would like to change the ratings in DVD Profiler for my foreign titles so that they match the equivalent of the U.S. rating system (e.g., change FSK-16 to R). However, I don't seem to be able to do this in DVD Profiler. It seems as if the program "knows" the rating system of the country the DVD is from, and it won't let me change it. If I manually type the code instead of using the dropdown menu, the code is not displayed after I close and re-open the dialogue.

What do I have to do to change this behavior so that I can enter any rating I would like?

Thanks,

teq

Yep, what you need to do is change the locality for all non-US profiles to US, and then you'll get the US rating options.

Welcome to the Asylum, BTW! 

You could probably edit the localities.xod within the AppData/.../DVD Profiler directory but it gets overwritten when you update the profile list. It contains the rating info and you could manually rename the German ratings.

Quoting teq139:

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I use DVD Profiler together with SageTV. In generally this works great and I especially like the integration of DVD Profiler's rating system in SageTV.

ehm, I don't know SageTV: how does it work together with DVD Profiler? Via the XML-Export?

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However, the problem is that SageTV only supports the U.S. rating system (e.g., PG, PG-13, R, etc.). Foreign rating systems (e.g., from Germany, like FSK-12, FSK-16, etc.) are not supported.

If it is XML it may be more elegant to try to solve the problem there, not inside DVD Profiler with a locality-change.

Would depend on what fields SageTV can/should/would use.

cya, Mithi

I did say individually selected fields  obviously I can't verify Audio (& in order of)  or disc ID., or subtitles.. etc .. but overviews and running times and even cast and crew as well as North american release dates as well as CoO/ year of release etc etc  can be and should be done without the disc in hand .. ( not new releases )submitted approved releases .
another area too is quality of the scans .. If the Front of Scan is just atrocious and may be matched perfectly , with a perfect Scan in data base ( as well if Rear Scan was the same including locality as well as same UPC code...) 


Don't forget we want to make this a more better place not worse,, and I would never purposely mislead you all..

But you have to agree that it is maddening to find 3 or 4 titles from region 1 that don't line up physically and is filled with Numerous errors that someone ( not me)  submitted and they were all approved.. and contributed by others..
You would not believe how many times, Before I do any corrections, I will contact the last person who submitted a misaligned UPC code to rear scan, or some other errors that I would go to the source and find out they never owned the film or title to start with.  These are the ones who should have had the disc in hand instead of on a wish list. It is these titles I have to figure out by others of its same release date and upc and region what could and shouldn't be corrected.
these contributions will sit for years incorrectly in the data base./ Now I come along , unearth all these extreme errors and all I do, is put them to a vote of confidence that my contributions to these factfully filed errors will be corrected. they are put to the test and are voted or approved on..
What I find amusing, is most of the contributions sit there with no votes and after a few days our screeners have to judge for themselves if these are indeed corrections or further damaging the database.. I am only bringing them to light ..

Don't forget this is a user based system and if no one is contributing and correcting facts or image bearing corrections to these titles.. they will sit for almost forever as some of these localities have no owners, ( it would seem) .

Quoting widescreenforever:

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But you have to agree that it is maddening to find 3 or 4 titles from region 1 that don't line up physically and is filled with Numerous errors that someone ( not me)  submitted and they were all approved.. and contributed by others..
You would not believe how many times, Before I do any corrections, I will contact the last person who submitted a misaligned UPC code to rear scan, or some other errors that I would go to the source and find out they never owned the film or title to start with.  These are the ones who should have had the disc in hand instead of on a wish list. It is these titles I have to figure out by others of its same release date and upc and region what could and shouldn't be corrected.
these contributions will sit for years incorrectly in the data base./ Now I come along , unearth all these extreme errors and all I do, is put them to a vote of confidence that my contributions to these factfully filed errors will be corrected. they are put to the test and are voted or approved on..
What I find amusing, is most of the contributions sit there with no votes and after a few days our screeners have to judge for themselves if these are indeed corrections or further damaging the database.. I am only bringing them to light ..

Don't forget this is a user based system and if no one is contributing and correcting facts or image bearing corrections to these titles.. they will sit for almost forever as some of these localities have no owners, ( it would seem) .

To some degree I agree and can understand your frustration< terry. Do you have any idea how many bad UPCs were brought over when Ken merged the Old Intervocative database with the Invelos...TONS and TONS. But we must tread with care when trying to fix what we see as errors, how many users are simply porting over (uncredited) data without verification from a very OLD release, then when somebody finds that error and tries to fix it, we have users who are willing accept to undocumented cloned data and will demand that it be verified as inaccurate.

Skip

Wow, I'm impressed, so many comments/suggestions in such a short time. Thank you very much, I appreciate it.

I guess I will try to change the locality as suggested by some of you.

Regarding the one question about SageTV, yes, it uses the XML export. So, yes, I could change it in the XML file directly - however, as I regularly add new titles and export these again, the edits would get overwritten.

Cheers,

teq