Video Organizer

[varSavedMyLife]

Hello all,
I just joined the site, although I have been using the site as a reference for many many years. I thought I would finally contribute my own creation, although I am not sure how many people will find it useful. Basically Video organizer is a program that I have created using C#. It allows you to import a series of files or directories into the application. From there the software offers these features:

Feature List:

• Save imported directories and files.
• When saving, users can choose to enable auto-load.
• Or a user can load different sets of directories at different times.
• Search for a file.
• Sort alphabetically or by creation date.
• HTML Index function that creates a web page with your files.
• Clear directories.
• View location of selected file.
• Click on movie artwork to view trailer
• Library Information.
• File Information.
• IMDB Information.
• Local Database creation

Here is a screen shot:


And a link to the download area:

http://code.google.com/p/videoorganizer/

[VideophileII]

Good work, mate. Lots of competition out there in this area, though. Good luck!

btw, what are you using for data-scraping?

[varSavedMyLife]

I am gathering data in multiple ways, for IMDb I have created custom functions that literally search (scrape) IMDb for movie information. If you are interested in the series of functions (a.k.a the class) that actually scrapes the IMDb data, visit this page, it contains the source code:

http://code.google.com/p/videoorganizer/source/browse/trunk/VideoOrganizer/IMDBParser.cs

[aedipuss]

how about creating a normal installer, not a stub that downloads stuff that can't be scanned first? yours is too similar to most virus/trojan crud.

[varSavedMyLife]

@aedipuss
I think that you are right. At this point in time I am using Microsofts "Publish" feature within Visual Studio 2010. This allows me to push updates to my server with the click of a button. It automatically increments build versions and creates all of the installation files. After I Publish a new build, anytime a user opens the program it will automatically check for new a new version and offer to download and install it. If you could recommend an alternative that is equally simple or maybe point me in a direction, I would be happy to get away from the weirdo installation that I have now.

[aedipuss]

most shareware/opensource has either a ui button or something in a tools tab or in the "about" that lets the user choose when to check for updates.

[aedipuss]

or you could change the automatic to user selectable.

[aedipuss]

first i would work on getting the installer package to be self-contained and not required net access to get going. not everyone will allow unknown programs to access the net. you will get more users and the others won't be left wondering what actually was d/l'd and installed.

[varSavedMyLife]

How does this look: Installer

Let me know what you think, then I may implement.

[aedipuss]

even the free one might do what you want. the only things really missing look like the wizards that do the grunt work for you like this.

Import Microsoft Visual Studio projectsJump-start your installer by importing your existing VS project. Auto-detect names, files and dependencies.

even if you don't use an installer/msi package, lots of small programs are free standing/don't require installs, and work very well. some of us even prefer them