Any Movie buffs here? Movie collectors?

[tankman1989]

When I was a kid, I spent almost all my money on CD's and then when DVD's came out I spent a lot of money on DVD's. This later transitioned into computer equipment.

I'm wondering if anyone here would want to start some kind of movie trading group where we can send either the DVD's or a HD or ISO's to other members of a movie buff group. I did this with a few friends and ended up finding a lot of movies I've never heard of that were great!

Does anyone here want to do some kind of temporary exchange of movies (and or music, I'm into that too).

Just as a note, this is not to sell any movies or pirate anything. Just friends lending and borrowing other friends movies to watch.

Any interest?

I can make a list of the movies and TV shows that I have. Is there any good software that can list this type of stuff?

 

[Frick]

Sharing movie iso's as you described is generally illegal (definitely in the USA), and probably not suited to be on Technibble.

 

[Xander]

How would you *loan* an ISO?

 

[arrow_runner]

How would you *loan* an ISO?

Use CUT instead of COPY?

 

[16k_zx81]

When I was a kid,

Any interest?

I can make a list of the movies and TV shows that I have. Is there any good software that can list this type of stuff?

Yeah theres plenty of free apps that will export databases. The annoyance I found when I tried out most of the free apps is that they lack a decent 'autoscan' ability - in other words I was not able to find a decent app that could scrape data and did not require manual input of a movie collection(!)

Probably something out there but it eluded me.

I think I recall seeing something about xbmc having xml export ability?

Anyhoo, no, not interested in swapping disks, but I would be interested in participating in a general movie thread to discuss what films 'buffs' and other members are watching, and general trivia, movie stuff, "favourite all time films" etc (mine is Blade Runner) .

Same for TV shows actually

If anyones interested in starting a thread, I would be keen to bump in....

 

[tankman1989]

Yeah theres plenty of free apps that will export databases. The annoyance I found when I tried out most of the free apps is that they lack a decent 'autoscan' ability - in other words I was not able to find a decent app that could scrape data and did not require manual input of a movie collection(!)

Probably something out there but it eluded me.

I think I recall seeing something about xbmc having xml export ability?

Anyhoo, no, not interested in swapping disks, but I would be interested in participating in a general movie thread to discuss what films 'buffs' and other members are watching, and general trivia, movie stuff, "favourite all time films" etc (mine is Blade Runner) .

Same for TV shows actually

If anyones interested in starting a thread, I would be keen to bump in....

I've been trying to get familiarized with this program and it seems quite good except for some strange features. I have some ISO's names the exact title of the movie and the date in the title and it still pulls up some strange, unrelated movie. I'm not sure how to go about correcting it. I'm sure there is something I can do, either in the naming convention or in editing them one by one in XMBC. I sure hope they continue to work on this program as it is the best I've seen by far! Any ideas on how to offer to help with projects like that?

As far as trading ISO's, I know it's not illegal as long as they aren't being sold. you can legally backup or copy any digital content to your computer as you are the owner of the content. If you choose to watch the movie from the ISO instead of the DVD so that you don't have to fumble with the disc, that is your choice and it is in no way illegal. I remember reading the arguments about this about 10 years ago and it was talked about in some media magazines. What's the difference between me shipping a binder of 500 DVD's to my friend to watch or sending him a 2TB drive of the same DVD's, except the cost of shipping is MUCH less and if the shipment is lost, you only lost your backups not the originals. It seems like those are all perfectly reasonable reasons to use ISO's on HD's instead of the original DVD's IMO.

 

[Xander]

You don't think there's a difference making a backup copy of your own DVD for your own purposes and distributing copies to others? I'm pretty sure if you checked the fine print of stuff, you'd find that it's not an issue of reselling copies but distributing copies. Same with music - you're not allowed to give away copies; they have a problem with that. If you make a profit off the copies by reselling, they have a bigger problem with that.

 

[16k_zx81]

I've been trying to get familiarized with this program and it seems quite good except for some strange features. I have some ISO's names the exact title of the movie and the date in the title and it still pulls up some strange, unrelated movie. I'm not sure how to go about correcting it. I'm sure there is something I can do, either in the naming convention or in editing them one by one in XMBC. I sure hope they continue to work on this program as it is the best I've seen by far! Any ideas on how to offer to help with projects like that?

As far as trading ISO's, I know it's not illegal as long as they aren't being sold. you can legally backup or copy any digital content to your computer as you are the owner of the content. If you choose to watch the movie from the ISO instead of the DVD so that you don't have to fumble with the disc, that is your choice and it is in no way illegal. I remember reading the arguments about this about 10 years ago and it was talked about in some media magazines. What's the difference between me shipping a binder of 500 DVD's to my friend to watch or sending him a 2TB drive of the same DVD's, except the cost of shipping is MUCH less and if the shipment is lost, you only lost your backups not the originals. It seems like those are all perfectly reasonable reasons to use ISO's on HD's instead of the original DVD's IMO.

Yeah

You have two main options for English movie meta scraping - TMDB and IMDB. TMDB is set by default, and in my experience is more accurate. In the new Beta you can set it to get RATINGS from IMDB, which I think are generally higher vote count by comparison. Personally I find TMDB for MetaData and IMDB for ratings the best mix.

To change the scrape, (from memory) In the main window, right click the movie title that is incorrect, and then "Movie Information" and "Refresh" - that should bring up a list of possible results, from which you can choose the correct title.

The naming convention AFAIK is just [name][year][ignore everything after this]. Full stops, dashes, and underscores will be treated as spaces. As long as NAME, YEAR is correct, it should be relatively accurate but can be moderated by using the procedure above. Make sure all your movies have YEAR as it will get messy if this information is missing from the title.

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Jim

 

[twonline]

As far as trading ISO's, I know it's not illegal as long as they aren't being sold.

Yes. It is. You're infringing on the copyright holder's right to distribution and reproduction .

you can legally backup or copy any digital content to your computer as you are the owner of the content. If you choose to watch the movie from the ISO instead of the DVD so that you don't have to fumble with the disc, that is your choice and it is in no way illegal.

Absolutely true.

What's the difference between me shipping a binder of 500 DVD's to my friend to watch or sending him a 2TB drive of the same DVD's, except the cost of shipping is MUCH less and if the shipment is lost, you only lost your backups not the originals. It seems like those are all perfectly reasonable reasons to use ISO's on HD's instead of the original DVD's IMO.

The difference is...by sending the original discs, you're protected by the first sale doctrine as it pertains to copyright. By creating images, you lose the first sale doctrine defense...and again, you're violating the original copyright holder's right to reproduction and distribution. And actually, a lot of media creators claim, by virtue of their EULA, that you don't own anything except the media...the content is licensed...and as such, no form of the first sale doctrine applies.