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Movie cataloging software comparison at Afterdawn: DVDP comes out on top |
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| Registered: February 23, 2009 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 1,580 |
| | | Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | I am not at all surprised, a bif hooray for ken and the Community should pat itself on the back <or group hug> for all the effort that has gone into making this program the powerhouse that it is.
Salud and Happy Days 9,734 times.
"It consists solely of data submitted by DVD Profiler (Unlimited) users, and is more complete than the publicly available sources used by the other programs reviewed. Everything from cast and crew lists to special features and even thorough descriptions of any easter eggs on each disc are included."
Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here
Billy Video | | | | Last edited: by Winston Smith |
| | Registered: February 23, 2009 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,580 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Woola: Quote:
"It consists solely of data submitted by DVD Profiler (Unlimited) users, and is more complete than the publicly available sources used by the other programs reviewed. Everything from cast and crew lists to special features and even thorough descriptions of any easter eggs on each disc are included." Yeah, I also paid particular attention to this part of the review and I agree that in that regard, even though at times it can lead to heated or long discussions, is one of the strong points of DVDP: the user-submitted content (not just data, but also layouts, plugins, etc). It's something I didn't have in Movie Collector and DVDP seems to be the only one offering this. They didn't explicitely mention it in the review but I also feel that DVDP is the most feature-rich among all programs reviewed. Kudos to Invelos & the community. Keep up the good work! | | | Blu-ray collection
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| | Registered: May 8, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 1,945 |
| | Posted: | | | | | | | | www.tvmaze.com | | | | Last edited: by DarklyNoon |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 5,494 |
| | Posted: | | | | .. and to this day.. I have yet to come across a friend or an acquaintance or a co worker or a neighbor who uses DVD profiler.., and yet they all have massive DVD collections., and when I try and sell them on the importance and the strength of Profiler they all seem to either shrug it off as their program is either free., they prefer their excel spread sheet to categorize their own library, or they keep it all in their heads and their shelves to look at., and in one case a woman I know writes all the titles and locality (in her in living room under TV across shelving, & inside coffee tables etc) on notepad paper.  | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
Terry |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here
Billy Video |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 2,293 |
| | Posted: | | | | Well done Ken and all at Invelos... ... and I notice that despite the fact he liked the interface he didn't even seem to realise it's fully customisable as well so that should be another point or two for DVDP  | | | | It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong |
| | Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,819 |
| | Posted: | | | | I wish someone would do a similar thing with books and cds!!! Come on, Ken....you're obviously so darned good at this stuff....give us CD Profiler!!!  |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here
Billy Video |
| | Registered: March 29, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 4,479 |
| | Posted: | | | | "All this praise might give you the impression DVD Profiler is hands down the best program for cataloging your movies. But all programs have limitations, and DVD Profiler is no exception.
The most glaring issue is its emphasis on disc-based formats like DVD and Blu-ray. DVD Profiler isn't intended for cataloging your AVI, MP4, or other standard video files. "
The author of the article seems to have the same opinion that I have always exposed here. Dvdprofiler is great to collect movies, and its emphasis on DVDs is a rather a weakness. 3.6 with its custom collections feature will improve greatly that aspect. | | | | Images from movies |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,494 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting surfeur51: Quote:
"All this praise might give you the impression DVD Profiler is hands down the best program for cataloging your movies. But all programs have limitations, and DVD Profiler is no exception.
The most glaring issue is its emphasis on disc-based formats like DVD and Blu-ray. DVD Profiler isn't intended for cataloging your AVI, MP4, or other standard video files. "
The author of the article seems to have the same opinion that I have always exposed here. Dvdprofiler is great to collect movies, and its emphasis on DVDs is a rather a weakness. 3.6 with its custom collections feature will improve greatly that aspect. Not nessessarily as an example if a movie came out in aspect ratio of 1:85.1 and that same movie transferred to DVD is now formatted in 1:78.1 , because this is a DVD profielr and not a Movie profiler we can in effect use the said OAR . Now when it comes to AVI and MP4 etc.. they are all personal recordings ( i.e. home made, network. cable, bootleg, dvdrips, etc and profiler will not and cannot be in a position to accept this recordings,, BUT you can,, by just localizing that content to your own PC and scrape the artwork and overviews and content from Profiler to your hearts content .. | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
Terry | | | | Last edited: by widescreenforever |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting widescreenforever: Quote:
Quoting surfeur51:
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"All this praise might give you the impression DVD Profiler is hands down the best program for cataloging your movies. But all programs have limitations, and DVD Profiler is no exception.
The most glaring issue is its emphasis on disc-based formats like DVD and Blu-ray. DVD Profiler isn't intended for cataloging your AVI, MP4, or other standard video files. "
The author of the article seems to have the same opinion that I have always exposed here. Dvdprofiler is great to collect movies, and its emphasis on DVDs is a rather a weakness. 3.6 with its custom collections feature will improve greatly that aspect.
Not nessessarily as an example if a movie came out in aspect ratio of 1:85.1 and that same movie transferred to DVD is now formatted in 1:78.1 , because this is a DVD profielr and not a Movie profiler we can in effect use the said OAR .
Now when it comes to AVI and MP4 etc.. they are all personal recordings ( i.e. home made, network. cable, bootleg, dvdrips, etc and profiler will not and cannot be in a position to accept this recordings,, BUT you can,, by just localizing that content to your own PC and scrape the artwork and overviews and content from Profiler to your hearts content .. Well said. Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here
Billy Video | | | | Last edited: by Winston Smith |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,321 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting surfeur51: Quote:
Dvdprofiler is great to collect movies, and its emphasis on DVDs is a rather a weakness. The argument could also be made that it's the emphasis on disc based formats that has allowed it to be the program it is today and come out on top in reviews like this. If Ken took the time to make the program support every feature that every user would like to have, I think it would be an ugly mess. So I appreciate the fact that it tries to do one thing extremely well rather than a bunch of things ok. Well done Ken!  | | | Get the CSVExport and Database Query plug-ins here.
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| | Registered: March 29, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 4,479 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Mark Harrison: Quote:
The argument could also be made that it's the emphasis on disc based formats that has allowed it to be the program it is today and come out on top in reviews like this. My analysis is that, in fact, Ken developped dvdprofiler as a movie profiler. All important features, as credit and cast lists, cast and crew headshots, galerie photos, credit linkings, credit counts... concern much more the movies than the DVDs. And no feature allows to collect DVD that do not contain movies, as games DVDs or data DVDs. The fact that the program, specially through the online data, emphasizes the DVD aspects is considered by the author of the article as a weakness. That is not me who wrote that article, but all physical persons I know who use dvdprofiler collect movies, not DVDs. I know, particularly since my last polls, that this opinion is in minority here. Ok, that is a fact that most of the forum users collect DVDs and not movies. That is not necessarily the general opinion, and I notice through this article that some people have the same analysis than me. | | | | Images from movies | | | | Last edited: by surfeur51 |
| | Registered: February 23, 2009 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,580 |
| | Posted: | | | | Personally, I think it's a good thing that for the online part, DVDProfiler stays limited to officially released 'hard' formats such as DVD, HDDVD and Blu-ray, otherwise it would become a mess.
On the other hand, I agree that local customization should allow one to input virtually anything, be with 'soft' movies (MP4, MKV, etc) or other lesser-known formats like UMD. But I think those shouldn't be admissable to the online since, especially in the case of soft formats, anyone can have something different. If one wants to collect soft movies, I think AntCatalog is better since it scans the files and automatically adds the technical data like codec used etc. It would be a nice addition to DVDP, but again, for local purposes only (meaning, it should be blocked from online submission).
One tiny thing that would be nice to add to the online as well as local database, is other hard formats that aren't as widespread (anymore), such as UMD or LD. I still have some Japanese LD's and it would be nice to have that option to tick and have a LD icon be displayed.
But again, I think all this is a bit nitpicking and I think the name of the software really says it all: it's a program to profile DVD's (and in annex also the newer formats like HDDVD and Blu-ray), with added features that allow profiling also movies, cast and crew through cross-linking.
Just my 2cents ... | | | Blu-ray collection
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| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 1,796 |
| | Posted: | | | | I agree with all the above.
For music, CDs, etc., Real, itunes or Windows is good enough for me since they have all been put on an external drive.
I have yet to see an adequate program for classical and jazz media I like.
I keep a separate Profiler db for college lecture courses. I have about 200 box sets with up to 12 to 84 lectures per set. | | | We don't need stinkin' IMDB's errors, we make our own.
Ineptocracy, You got to love it.
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