High Quality Video Management Application.
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Actually IMDb is quite restrictive as in order to be allowed to use their data files available from their FTP sites one has to agree to their copyright/conditions of use statement, which amongst others declares:
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This means that probably most applications out there that use their data do so against their will, because I doubt any of them pays $15,000 licensing fees annually in order to be allowed to scrape their site or use their API. It surely is quite tempting to use their data, but it is about time that people realize that IMDb is NOT FREE. And if they are contributors and do not like to be non-paid employees of Amazon.com (who owns IMDb) they might start contributing to services that are free. The biggest problem of OMDB seems to be that it is in the shadow of IMDb and either is not known at all or doesn't get used because "IMDb is very good". It is not good, though it might be complete, because they do not allow the community who freely created the database to freely use it. In my opinion any free movie database software should completely ignore IMDb and rather create an interface to OMDB which allows easy up- and downloading of data. That would quickly solve the problem of incompleteness, at least if the program is good and popular.
Last edited by d.h on Fri Sep 11, 2009 11:56 am, edited 2 times in total.
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Sorry yes I misread. Ok so IMDb doesn't seem like a good idea. However, I also found thetvdb.com which looks very good (and free) and they have a field for "dvd disc id", which is currently unused, but could be just what I'm looking for... I posted on their forum asking about this |
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thetvdb.com looks promising, but it only does include TV series. Their DVD id seems to be only interesting if data is linked to it already. Otherwise one could (and probably should if possible) use the one Musicbrainz uses.
By the way, mplayer also gives a disc id if the 'identify' switch is used, though I do not know how it is calculated and when I once searched for a possible database that uses it, I couldn't find one. P.S.: Is it at all possible to copyright the type of data IMDb collects? Because I believe I once read that one cannot copyright facts and in my opinion that would be the case for years, actors, directors etc., though not for synopsis and descriptions. In other words, if I am right, most of their data could be freely imported into an own database... |
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TVersity is supposed to be a fine free UPnP server (on Windows), my Freecom ARM based NAS box uses TwonkyVision media server. MythTV and MediaTomb have the liberty and free aspects. I have been unable to get a UPnP Control Point (client) working on OpenSuSE, but I have a Linux based set-top-box that does work. XBMC is supposed to use Platinum UPnP as a server, but I've been unable to get XBMC client to do anything useful. |
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Shouldn't this idea be marked as "In Progress" since developers started working on this. By the look of it, project Komedy started as direct response to this idea. check out: http://andreasdevblog.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/komedy/ |
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I'll just add what I would like to see in an application for KDE video library:
AVCHD support, and an interface like Picasa. I have an Canon HF200 video cammera that saves movies in avchd format. These are played fine with the latest mplaer and X.264 codec, but I have no thumbnail support, or any other means of organization of these videos. Of course the Canon provided software is Windows Only, and it also sucks big time. So something like Picasa for video, that scan and updates a list of videos, with thumbnails, and that shows some frames of the video as you hoover your mouse on it, would be xtra cool 
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Have they answered by now? And are you actually working with xxtjaxx on this project? |
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Pros for Amarok:
-Amarok provides all the needed feature to manage the collection and an extendable Plasma-interface -For purists there could be options like --no-video and --no-music, for all the other people there would be a video-tab -It is useful to manage music-videos together with music -A lot of development time could be saved -Starting would not take much more time, it would just be a bigger collection. With the startup-performance argumentation you could also create seperate collections for each album... |
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is tellico not exactly what this project aims to provide?
http://tellico-project.org/about-tellico
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There is great application for this what use KDE4 base technologies. It is called Bangarang you can get it with git from http://gitorious.org/bangarang and read about it from http://bangarangkde.wordpress.com/2009/10/07/intro/
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There is a solution that is actually easier and better, I think:
We talk to the VLC developers, and offer to create an optional KDE GUI for it. This should be rather trivial, as they already have a Qt4 GUI, so we could simply extend that. Adding to that, they are using Git (makes such branches easy), and we are on good terms with the developers (head developer will visit our Multimedia Sprint). No need to reinvent the wheel
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You know that there is a VLC-Phonon-backend?
I do not think that VLC's interface is some kind as cool as Amarok. |
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Bangarang has great potential alas in its current state it is very prone to crash and hang. I'd keep my eye on the git version
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This application look's good to manage video
http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/PlaybaK+(aka+KDE+Media+Player)?content=123016 |
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