Ok, I've calmed down. And you know I didn't stop working, but I did take a long walk and caught up on some "honey do" items my wife has been bugging me about. 

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Why don't you have the courage to send me a PM to discuss it

Courage? Come on. There is nothing to discuss, software beta testing does not belong to Contribution. If you have problems with Plugin development, use Plugins, if you have problems with software development in general, use General.

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Courage? Come on. There is nothing to discuss, software beta testing does not belong to Contribution. If you have problems with Plugin development, use Plugins, if you have problems with software development in general, use General.

Move along...

Indeed.  Since this thread does not violate any of the forum rules, people who aren't interested should just, well, move along.

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Quoting mediadogg:

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Why don't you have the courage to send me a PM to discuss it

Courage? Come on. There is nothing to discuss, software beta testing does not belong to Contribution. If you have problems with Plugin development, use Plugins, if you have problems with software development in general, use General.

I agree. I originally posted in this Forum because I was offering a service (free tools) to Contributors, of whom you are one. Once the discussion started, I offered to move to any other place such as Plugins, but people seemed to want to continue here. Since the combined accepted contributions of the folks that have been part of the discussion is well over 50,000, I decided to defer to the wishes of that community, to whom I am deeply grateful for the work they do.

But your point is well taken, and it would be no problem for me to have this discussion moved to the Plugins Forum. There really is no issue - except your attitude. There is no need for a confrontation when the parties agree.

There is a pending request for a Moderator to move this thread. Until then, I will continue to participate here so long as the perceived majority accepts it or wants it or tolerates it - however you want to think of it.

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Just to make sure that I understood this correctly: DVDPca should learn to identify features by "educated guessing", right?

Correct, unless we get lucky and find some places where it is encoded on the DVD. For example, I'll bet that my guesses about "DVDROM Content" are reasonably accurate. These methods are easy to change as we get clever ideas from the group as to what to look for. Someday, I could even add a way for user to put in their own Regex expressions to sniff out content on the disc.

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Correct, unless we get lucky and find some places where it is encoded on the DVD. For example, I'll bet that my guesses about "DVDROM Content" are reasonably accurate. These methods are easy to change as we get clever ideas from the group as to what to look for. Someday, I could even add a way for user to put in their own Regex expressions to sniff out content on the disc.

Ok, I have an idea:

Most of the bonus features are difficult to guess, but if a bonus feature has more than one language track, it is according to my findings in 99% Deleted Scenes with optional commentary. Other featurettes with more than one audio track are IMHO very rare.

But the problem is: how do I identify a "bonus feature" in the first place? Is it a title longer than (x minutes) that is not included in the running time calculation, some other criteria?? That is the real problem.

Keep the ideas flowing. Something will click, I'm sure of it.

mediadogg,

You do nothing but make the database better...

although I have no idea what you're talking about most of the time 

You might utilize the block feature if there people who you feel are harassing you. None of your posts violate invelos rules.

In fact, your work makes Ken's product more useful and may actually increase its value.

Though it's not uncommon to put several trailers in a single video file. You could very well have a five-minute video consisting of three trailers.