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exporting to HTML and more media formats
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DVD Profiler Unlimited Registrantougee
Registered: August 24, 2007
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Hello, I'm a newly registered user of DVD Profiler. In my opinion this program lacks 2 very important features:

1. easy exporting to html
2. more media formats (like DVR, DIVX etc).

I hope you'll add those features very soon. Otherwise it's a great program. Thanks.
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DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile RegistrantStar ContributorDJ Doena
Registered: May 1, 2002
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1.) What kind of HTML? What do you expect the exported web site should look like?

You could use the exported XML and use a XSL transformation to create any website output you could dream of.

2) DVR and DivX (I presume self-recorded movies from TV and not something illegal) are still burnt on DVD, are they not? So they aren't "other media formats".
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DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile Registrantpauls42
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Registered: March 13, 2007
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Quoting ougee:
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Hello, I'm a newly registered user of DVD Profiler. In my opinion this program lacks 2 very important features:

1. easy exporting to html
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if you have web hosting then you can use phpDVDProfiler. See my signature for what this looks like.
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Quoting ougee:
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1. easy exporting to html


The program exports to .xml. Sufficient for anyone's needs. Or, as stated previously, you can use phpDVDprofiler as many of us do.

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2. more media formats (like DVR, DIVX etc).


The program is for cataloging your DVD collection thus the name DVD Profiler. DVR, DIVX, etc, are not media formats, they are codecs. If you wish to include home movies or files ripped to your  HD, you are free to do so by creating manual profiles for them.

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DVD Profiler Unlimited Registrantougee
Registered: August 24, 2007
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I'm sure if talk to people who are not computer geeks but still collect DVDs, you'll see that exporting to .xml is very far from being sufficient for anyone's needs.

The same story with the phpDVDprofiler which seems quite complicated. Not to mention that I was talking about features integrated in the DVDProfiler and not some third-party software. Most of the other DVD collection programs have the option of exporting to html. So I guess this has become the standard for this type of software.

As for other media formats still it would be very useful. At least they could make the "Media Format" field customizable. This is not a big deal, I guess.
DVD Profiler Unlimited Registrantougee
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Quoting pauls42:

if you have web hosting then you can use phpDVDProfiler. See my signature for what this looks like.

I have webhosting. And your page looks very nice. But for the moment I couldn't figure out how to use that program. Is there some tutorial for dummies?
DVD Profiler Unlimited Registrantnuoyaxin
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I have webhosting. And your page looks very nice. But for the moment I couldn't figure out how to use that program. Is there some tutorial for dummies?

It just so happens there is:

Installing phpDVDProfiler

If you'd have questions beyond that, the designated forum is here: phpdvdprofiler forum
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorRHo
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1.) What kind of HTML? What do you expect the exported web site should look like?

Configurable by templates similar to the HTML windows. See DVD Profiler Companion for a possible implementation (2.4 only).
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorRHo
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2) DVR and DivX (I presume self-recorded movies from TV and not something illegal) are still burnt on DVD, are they not? So they aren't "other media formats".

I'd like to see at least a media type "Other" or the possibility to deselect any media type (for local purposes only). For now if you deselect all media types, "DVD" is selected again automatically.
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorWinston Smith
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Registered: March 13, 2007
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Ougee:

You can whatever media you wish to your LOCAL database via the Tag system, simply setup the Tag you wish VHS, DivX, whatever and then use it. You cannot however and willnot be able to contribute such titles to the Online, however when you upload your colection everyone will get to see what you have.

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DVD Profiler Unlimited Registrantougee
Registered: August 24, 2007
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It just so happens there is:
Installing phpDVDProfiler

It is indeed a very good tutorial. Without any knowledge of PHP and MySQL I created a nice mini website with all my DVDs within an hour or so. Thanks to the author.

Even some less advanced exporting to HTML would certainly be a big advantage for DVDProfiler software.
DVD Profiler Unlimited Registrantougee
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Ougee:
You can whatever media you wish to your LOCAL database via the Tag system


Thanks for the hint. That's what I'm going to do but having more options for media formats (or making this field customizable) would be a good idea.
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