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I'm looking for a good program that lists all of your DVD's you own with movie breakdowns and cover art.

I have found several that are free online but I don't have internet at my house so I'm trying to find something that will download info about the discs from the internet but can work without being loged online.

If anyone can help that could be kick ass. If not I hope the ads will point me in the right direction.

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I've played around with a couple on a limited basis and the one I found easiest and most inclusive was DVDProfiler. Not sure about the logging though but you *can* bulk add a bunch of titles using the UPC number and then go online to get the data all at once.
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I would recommend DVDProfiler as well. It does the job, and well.

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Well I guess I'll have to check that out then huh...

What I'm looking for is what you have set up with your DVD list GundarkHunter. Only I want it to be on my computer and not online. I want an easy way for people to go through and view what I have. I'm guessing that list is generated with DVDProfiler.

Anyway I'll look into that program.
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OK OK I checked it out and DVD Profiler is bad ass. I have one question only about this program.

Can you skin it so it is more streamlined? What I'm looking for is for the same look that GundarkHunter has on his online page but on my computer instead.

If I can't do that this is still a great program.

Thanks guys.
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Originally posted by: MoveAlong
Delicious Library (OS X) is perfect. It is THE killer cataloging app, period. Beautiful software. Check it out. You can scan UPC codes with any DV camera. It automatically grabs info and artwork.


Yes, but do they have a PC version?
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So I just checked out Delicious Library.

I guess I have one more reason to get rid of my PC. Now if only I could get DVDShrink on mac I could dance on the broken pieces of my PC.

Thanks for the heads up MoveAlong
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Originally posted by: greencapt
Originally posted by: MoveAlong
Delicious Library (OS X) is perfect. It is THE killer cataloging app, period. Beautiful software. Check it out. You can scan UPC codes with any DV camera. It automatically grabs info and artwork.


Yes, but do they have a PC version?


Well, without trying to sound like the mac zealot that I really am , software this good just doesn't exist on windows, period. That's kind of the whole point. They chose to make it mac only because OS X allows it to be so much better than XP ever could. I'm not trying to get flamed, it's just this is merely one example of most people not knowing how good it can be to stay away from the dark side

BTW, there are DVDShrink alternatives on the mac. No reason to break your PC in to pieces, just add a mac mini and a KVM switch to your rig and you have the best of both worlds.

Merry Christmas, guys!

You can go about your business. Move along, move along.

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i use DVDpedia. for the same reason as above.

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Originally posted by: MoveAlong
Well, without trying to sound like the mac zealot that I really am , software this good just doesn't exist on windows, period. That's kind of the whole point. They chose to make it mac only because OS X allows it to be so much better than XP ever could. I'm not trying to get flamed, it's just this is merely one example of most people not knowing how good it can be to stay away from the dark side

BTW, there are DVDShrink alternatives on the mac. No reason to break your PC in to pieces, just add a mac mini and a KVM switch to your rig and you have the best of both worlds.

Merry Christmas, guys!


Ahhhh! Another Mac Man! Welcome!

Hey, what are the best alternatives to DVDShrink? I just bought a G5 iMac and now have a SuperDrive at home and would like to start burning but am unsure what to use. Help.

Will have to check out this DVD cataloguing program as well.
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Yet another reason to go Mac. Time to start saving my pennies.

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Originally posted by: GundarkHunter
Yet another reason to go Mac. Time to start saving my pennies.


I've been telling you this for how long now?

Here's a tip to save money... go to the Apple Store and pick up a refurbished or refreshed system. Same warranty, better price. Our $1,600 iMac was only $900 ($1,150 once we added the AppleCare package on it).
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I programmed a book cataloguer for myself some years ago, I could search for author, topic, it was neat. I really used it, like, 2 times, and both of them would take less time if I just went there and picked the book, as I knew where they were.
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Ahhhh! Another Mac Man! Welcome!

Hey, what are the best alternatives to DVDShrink? I just bought a G5 iMac and now have a SuperDrive at home and would like to start burning but am unsure what to use. Help.

Will have to check out this DVD cataloguing program as well.


Don't normally venture over to this area very often, sorry for the late reply. Here are a few options for copying/shrinking dvd's in OS X.

MacTheRipper
DVD2oneX
ToastTitanium
DVDRemaster
HandBrake

Handbrake is an mpg4 converter/encoder. Just thought I'd mention it because it's so good. Not all of these are freeware, but they're around.

And don't forget that DeliciousLibrary is more than just a dvd cataloging app. It catalogs all your media. Movies, music, books, games, whatever... All automatically, just scan a barcode with a DV camera and it's all good!

You can go about your business. Move along, move along.

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Originally posted by: MoveAlong
Ahhhh! Another Mac Man! Welcome!

Hey, what are the best alternatives to DVDShrink? I just bought a G5 iMac and now have a SuperDrive at home and would like to start burning but am unsure what to use. Help.

Will have to check out this DVD cataloguing program as well.


Don't normally venture over to this area very often, sorry for the late reply. Here are a few options for copying/shrinking dvd's in OS X.

MacTheRipper
DVD2oneX
ToastTitanium
DVDRemaster
HandBrake

Handbrake is an mpg4 converter/encoder. Just thought I'd mention it because it's so good. Not all of these are freeware, but they're around.

And don't forget that DeliciousLibrary is more than just a dvd cataloging app. It catalogs all your media. Movies, music, books, games, whatever... All automatically, just scan a barcode with a DV camera and it's all good!


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Originally posted by: Bossk
Originally posted by: GundarkHunter
Yet another reason to go Mac. Time to start saving my pennies.


I've been telling you this for how long now?

Here's a tip to save money... go to the Apple Store and pick up a refurbished or refreshed system. Same warranty, better price. Our $1,600 iMac was only $900 ($1,150 once we added the AppleCare package on it).

Yeah, but the trick is actually finding the money to get even a refurbed system. I only just started recovering from moving, and got slammed by Christmas. Still think I'll go with a mini; space is @ a premium in our current place.

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Mini with SuperDrive and faster processor is the way I want to go. It'll probably cost me the same as an iMac in the end, but as a recovering PC tweaker, I like to choose @ least some of my own components.

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DAYV, do you know if any of the external hard drives on the market are Mac compatible? I know that if I were to get a mini I'd need external storage, because I'd like to use it for video editing.

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all of them are as long as they are formated for mac use.
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Hard drives are hard drives, as they say. True plug and play with firewire and usb. Modern Macs' HD's are formatted HFS+. However, they can also read/write FAT32 and as of OS X 10.4 (Tiger), can read NTFS. I have an NTFS external firewire/usb drive that I use whenever I need to go get a bunch of files from an XP box (or ship it as I have with some ot.com members for their video captures). I'm not sure about partitioning different formats on the same drive, if that would work or not. I know from experience that although you can format a drive FAT32 within OS X, it works better if it's formatted on a PC and then read on a Mac.

So,

HFS+ (mac native disk format, only bootable mac format)
FAT32 (mac read/write, no boot) most off the shelf external firewire/usb2 hard drives are pre-formatted FAT32. A Mac can read/write just as easily as a PC.
NTFS (mac read only, OS X 10.4 Tiger only)

Also for GundarkHunter,

I believe the mac mini's built in HD is 2.5 inch 4200rpm (someone correct me if I'm wrong). This really wouldn't be suitable for running a real video editing app (ala Final Cut Pro). A great option would be something like the NewerTech miniStack. It has the same form factor as the mini and sits directly underneath it. You can get it with or without a 3.5 inch drive. What I would do is put a big (200-500 GB) 7200rpm drive in there and use it as your boot drive hooked up to the mini via firewire (you probably have an extra few of these lying around). This would give you much better performance. Heck, I'm able to run Final Cut Pro on a 3 year old 1GHz iMac G4. So, the G4 is fine you just need a much faster hard disk than the mini's. If needed, you could always daisy chain mulitple miniStack's or any other external disks. With this setup, I would just use the mini's hard drive for storage (photos, mp3's, whatever).

I'm glad to see more people making a switch. The grass really is greener over here! (and has been for a long time)

You can go about your business. Move along, move along.

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I run final cut off of a Mac mini and it works great. Not quite as fast as the big boys but it runs with no problems at all. The only problem you run into with running Final Cut on the Mini is that you run out of storage space really quick. I have about four 300GB externals all chained together if I need to get some more storage space. (I'm running FCP 4.5 HD on my mini without any problems)

When formatting a drive for Mac just remember that FAT32 can only write 2GB of info at a time so if you have a file that is bigger than 2GB you can't get it onto a FAT32 drive without breaking it up with some sort of compression program.

As for NTFS I had a drive set up with this for moving information between a Mac and a PC and it wasn't as stable as a Mac formatted partition. Then again it could have been the HD I was using at the time. It's easier to set up a network for this. Which is how I worked around this problem.

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