NBS Catalogue

[kxy]

QuoVadis,

Does my imdb automation suggestion make sense, is it workable?

[CaPPyD]

Alrighty, i'm at work right now, but as soon as I get home i'll try and figure out the hex editor thingie. No worries about the ASF's as i'm working on re-ripping all of them anyway.

[QuoVadis]

I've added a file properties editor (just a quick hack). Switch to "Edit Mode" go to the "File Information"-Tab and doubleclick the on the filename. This one is a *beta*. I'll release the next final as soon as the export routines are rewritten. The next goal is an Internet scripting language (as already known from DivX Manager or Ant).

you can d/l the beta @

www.nbsi.de/Files/beta.zip

[CaPPyD]

@QuoVadis I think I figgered out how to Hex Edit that file. Check yer e-mail and let me know if that was what you wanted. I'll send the second one once I have confirmation I did it right.

[QuoVadis]

I analyzed the "avi" ("Soul Survivors", which was a renamed ogm) and recognized that there was some sort of avi header embedded into the ogg stream, which my parser doesn't recognize. I've never seen that kind of header before. After remuxing it with GraphEdit, the header was ok and NBSC correctly parsed it. Maybe I'll take a short glance @ the Mplayer sources to update my parser, as I don't have any chunck description for that kind of header.

The High motioon file was scanned correctly: usually there are two FourCC codes in an avi (one in the avi header, one in the video stream header, both should be the same). NBSC only takes the second one in account (I had to do that to parse DivX 5.0 files correctly, as they have "divx" (usually used for DivX 4.xx) as avi-header FourCC and "div5" as Stream header FourCC. You can correct that with the new file properties editor. In your case the avi header FourCC was "div4" (DivX;-) High Motion) and the stream header FourCC was "div3" (DivX;-) Low Motion)

[QuoVadis]

@CraPPyD: I found some info about these old ogg headers and fixed the parser. The new beta is @

www.nbsi.de/Files/beta.zip

[CaPPyD]

cool... the other thing i noticed i tried to load the OGG AVI in vDub and it told me invalid AVI or something like that..

and there's no R in the nick... I have no idea why people keep doin this..... =)

[QuoVadis]

ogg/ogm renamed to avi is *no* real avi! Even if it contains some avi-like header info (as it did in your case). If you take a closer look to the VDub sources (as I did to get my parsers working), you'll see that it does not contain DirectShow stuff but a frame parser based on the avi/mpeg-1 specifications. VDub can only read *real* avi and mpeg-1 files.

btw what does "there's no R in the nick" mean? I'm no native English speaker ???

[LotionBoy]

He means the nickname is CappyD not CrappyD :-)

[CaPPyD]

Thanks LotionBoy

[QuoVadis]

oops, ok. thats right ;-) I'm sorry.

[kxy]

QuoVadis,

What about my imdb suggestion here. I feel like I am being ignored.

[QuoVadis]

Hell, no. But 1st of all, the export functions have to be rewritten. If that"s done, IMDb & internet scripting will be the next thing.

[LotionBoy]

A small thing Quo if you get the chance. The ability in search to only show movies not marked as seen. thanks. :-)

LotionBoy

[QuoVadis]

Already possible: Search for "%seen%" and invert the search list ;-)

Another thing: "%empty%" searches for empty fields.

[LotionBoy]

excellent. :-)

LotionBoy

[QuoVadis]

Right in time for the new DivX Manager v0.9 release I had this mail in my mailbox:


From: Alessio Viti <alessioviti@libero.it

Please, instead of writing stupid things to Divx forum on the world, you should first LEARN how to program, and not only writing and bragging about "NBS - the best movie manager on the world"... please don't be ridicolus...


pusha
push ds
pop es
lea di, mail_from_alessio_viti
mov cx, E0h
xor al, al
rep stosb
popa
mov ah, 4c
int 21h

[QuoVadis]

I'd like to apologize for everythin' I said 'bout AleTsg. consider my last posting as void. I hope we've cleared everything.

[QuoVadis]

I compiled a new beta with better export functions. It is not finished yet, so take it as a preview for the next version. HTML with Template is not working yet ;-(

www.nbsi.de/Files/beta.zip

[QuoVadis]

The new beta now supports export with templates + image resizing (settings won't be saved yet, and no error trapping, it's just a stupid test release.

Btw, I'm looking for native english speaking people who are willing to write/rewrite the documentation (as I'm rather bad in doing HTML design + documentations). I can't offer you money, but only a big "Thank You" and a mentioning in the credits ;-(

[LotionBoy]

I'm willing to help. let me know what you need.

LotionBoy

[Pythos]

The only problem I have with using NBS Catalogue is that I can't add more files to an existing title. Most of my DivX collection consists of Anime, and I'd like to be able to create one 'main' entry per anime title, then scan (and add in later) files for it. I like to track what I have now, then add in more as I compress it.

Along those lines, what's the maximum number of files that can be added per title?

[LotionBoy]

Quo,

you still looking for people to re-write the documentation? let me know. PM me.

LotionBoy

[theReal]

Just tried your prog and like it very much, although there's one minor thing nobody has mentioned yet.

What does the quality bar say? I just added a Divx 5 movie that has been encoded with 100% quality at a resolution of 640x272, but the quality bar is somewhere in the yellowish regions. That means very compressible movies are all going to be labelled as "bad quality" - so it doesn't really say anything about the quality at all.

(Edit: I first mentioned another problem that wasn't one - it was just my stupidity ;) )

[LotionBoy]

quality bar is for pretty colors. :-) Just kidding, but I don't find much use for it. Which is why I like having the bitrate of the movie displayed.

LotionBoy

[LotionBoy]

I've got a bug to report. Been using the AMDB function in NBS (which works beautifully, by the way. Anyone having a problem with compiling the AMDB should look around for the patch for the actors list, which fixes the line too long problem that crashes the compile) and NBS just goes crazy on the memory use. After I do about 20 movies, the memory use is around 600MB! There's obviously something wrong here. I'm using the latest version (not the Beta though) from the website.

LotionBoy

[kxy]

Is this program still alive?

[jcsston]

I hope it's still alive :confused:
I would like to request the sources from the author, I sent an email a couple weeks ago but no reply :(
I think this program is great, but I mostly have multiple small clips on cds.