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General Category => Support => Topic started by: Ivek23 on 2 01 May, 2021, 02:36:14 PM

Title: Personal Video Database 1.0.2.7 MOD topic
Post by: Ivek23 on 2 01 May, 2021, 02:36:14 PM
Quote from: VVV_Easy_Programing« on: 16 June 2018, 09:31:27 »
The last oficial version has been the 1.0.2.7 published in the 05 November 2013 by Nostra, the oficial programer and owner of the program.
After this date, the information providers has changed his pages and, the more important, they have passed to a secure protocol HTTPS:  PVD is not prepared for this protocol and crashes with a "IO Handler Value is not Valid" error.

Ivek23, the person that have supported the forum and the scripts programs with a important personal effort, thank you very much, has surrounded this problem installing and configuring a proxy, Proxomitron, but this require some computer skills and PVD is no longer portable.

So, we have made a MOD version of PVD 1.0.2.7 with the next characteristics:
To surround the HTTPS problem, it has been necessary to make an intermediate download in the file of the pages. This makes HTTPS scripts slower than with the Proxomitron solution, you must choose which solution to use because they are not compatible (but the working scripts can be easily adapted for exchange).

Until Nostra awakens from his Odinsleep, we pray to God that it will be soon, this is our humble contribution to this superb program, the most flexible and powerful movie data base:

http://vvveasy.altervista.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/PVD_1.0.2.7_MOD-V20191020.zip (http://vvveasy.altervista.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/PVD_1.0.2.7_MOD-V20191020.zip)

(The author strongly recommends using the SyMenu (https://www.ugmfree.it/) free launcher to install and keep updated the portable Personal Video Database 1.0.2.7 MOD version. It's easy and completely free without charges, advertisements, etc. (same philosophy as PVD) and perhaps you discover other advantages (for instance the Win10 users don't need use the infamous Windows Tiles))

Note: By Ivek23 request, below is included the adaptation of version 0.9.9.21.  It does not have the same guarantees as 1.0.2.7 especially because this version of PVD has a different scripting engine and the People part is less developed-DISCONTINUED:PVD_0.9.9.21_MOD-V20180922.zip (http://vvveasy.altervista.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/PVD_0.9.9.21_MOD-V20180922.zip)


Temporal Acumulative Scripts Patch date: Not needed


You can also find more information about Custom Fields in the topic Possibles improving Custom Fields working in MOD version. (http://mailmirdoch.net/index.php?action=post;msg=78;topic=26.0)
Title: Re: Personal Video Database 1.0.2.7 MOD topic
Post by: Ivek23 on 2 01 May, 2021, 02:40:46 PM
Quote from: VVV_Easy_Programing« on: 16 June 2018, 09:31:52 »
Usage:
Important advice: TheMovieDB is the recommended script, for speed and reliability. Take notice, that your are downloading full pages of internet with images, ad's, etc. For instance if you retrieved all IMDB info, your are downloading 1+5 pages for each movie.
Title: Re: Personal Video Database 1.0.2.7 MOD topic
Post by: Ivek23 on 2 01 May, 2021, 02:42:12 PM
Quote from: VVV_Easy_Programing« on: 16 June 2018, 09:32:47 »
MOD version Update:
If you use MOD version and you wants update to the newer MOD versions by yourself (advanced users) you could do the following steps (let us know your problems to be able to improve the guide):
(Remember: For normal users, the author strongly recommends using the SyMenu (https://www.ugmfree.it/) free launcher to install and keep updated the portable Personal Video Database 1.0.2.7 MOD version)


Moving from original PVD version to MOD version.
Perhaps, there may be many PVD users who have a movie collection in a PVD original installation and don't want to start over. For them, we suggest the following steps.

"Slow Copy-Paste" own PVD installation/collection adaptation for normal 1.0.2.7 users (not work with 0.9.9.21):

"Dirty" own PVD installation/collection adaptation for advanced users:

Controling the retreived information in PVD MOD:
There are two way to control the saved of information in the PVD database.
a) The PVD standard with the 'Set Overwrite Options for the selected plugin' (the "Calendar" button, at right of the script 'Import name').
b) The custom fields and others options aren't included in this menu so the scripts have hardcode parameters to managed it.
Now in PVD MOD can be easily changed launching the first script '**** Scripts Configuration ****'. These are its powerful capabilities and how use it:
•) Launch the PVD MOD Configuration Script (you must have selected one movie or one person):

(http://mailmirdoch.net/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=27.0;attach=68)

•) Then the PDV MOD Script Configuration windows opens:

(http://mailmirdoch.net/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=27.0;attach=70)

1) Choose the script configuration sheet (Orange arrow)
2) You can activate or deactivate a script checking the Active box (Blue oval). The activate scripts are showed in PVD.
3) Check or un-check the desired option (Green oval). In the example you can avoid download all the IMDB information pages so the script will go faster. This is interesting when you are updating only some particular info, for instance the IMDBRating, than you don't need the actors.
4) There is other numeric parameters that you can change, for instance, the number of actors saved in PVD.
5) Finaly you must saved it (vertical Red arrow). PVD MOD restarts in the same position because it needs compile the scripts with the new parameters.

The author recomends you strongly use **** Scripts Configuration ****. You can gain a lot of time.
Title: Re: Personal Video Database 1.0.2.7 MOD topic
Post by: Ivek23 on 2 01 May, 2021, 02:53:15 PM
Quote from: VVV_Easy_Programing« on: 16 June 2018, 09:39:03 »
Changelog:
Last version always in the first post
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