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| Registered: May 25, 2007 |  Posts: 453 |
| | Posted: | | | | Is there any chance to change the program to make box sets longer than they are already allowed? My problem is this: I do a lot of series-stuff for myself, recording from TV or buying TV-records in USA. My longest series is Wrestling: WWE Monday Night Raw
To keep an oversight, I put the whole series together in one Box Set, consisting of a box set for each of the 17 running years (1993 - 2009), each of those consisting of two further box sets (one for January - June, the second for July - December)
Now my problem is that I want to enter the combined length for the total box set (actually 73.055 Minutes), but DVDProfiler tells me that more than 32.XXX is not allowed/possible
Is there any chance to change or modify this? Especially as this series will become larger year by year (and I am also collecting some other wrestling stuff which might become VERY long) I will have to change the length also year by year (about 5000 minutes each and every year)
Any good idea or help?
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 6,730 |
| | Posted: | | | | It probably is possible but only for the programmer.
So it's best to sent this to the "Feature Request" forum. | | | It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up!
But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid?
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| Registered: December 10, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 3,004 |
| | Posted: | | | | That seems awfully long, even considering the time it's been on the air. Is it 2 hours and runs an episode every week without fail? | | | | Last edited: by Ace_of_Sevens |
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| Registered: May 25, 2007 | | Posts: 453 |
| | Posted: | | | | It is WWF/E Monday Night Raw, starting on January 11th, 1993 with 45 minutes every week. Since January '97 it is 90 minutes every week (cut off all the PR-Spots of about 30 minutes every week). They call it (and it might be true) "the longest running weekly episoding television show in television history"
If you take a look at my collection and just watch all the profiles of Raw from '93 to 2009 and add the lengths of all of them, then you can imagine, what I mean. And for those special "private ones" I try to avoid having 34 lines in my profiler. One box set with all of them below makes it easier |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 6,741 |
| | Posted: | | | | As a workaround: Couldn't you split it by decade? Then you'd have 2 or 3 root profiles which seems managable. | | | Karsten
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| Registered: May 25, 2007 | | Posts: 453 |
| | Posted: | | | | For sure I could split... this "only" would mean a re-design of the box cover.... but first of all "decade" isn't running: with about 5000 minutes a year, a decade would be 50.000+ again - and impossible.
And the reason why I'd prefer to avoid the split is to see on one profile how long this series is meanwhile! So if anyone watches my homepage, he would have to add several profiles again to find out the complete length :-/
Well, this is the first time I have this problem... but as I am actually working on several other long time shows, it will maybe hit me again when some other series are complete :-/ |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,741 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Magmadrag: Quote:
For sure I could split... this "only" would mean a re-design of the box cover.... but first of all "decade" isn't running: with about 5000 minutes a year, a decade would be 50.000+ again - and impossible.
And the reason why I'd prefer to avoid the split is to see on one profile how long this series is meanwhile! So if anyone watches my homepage, he would have to add several profiles again to find out the complete length :-/
Well, this is the first time I have this problem... but as I am actually working on several other long time shows, it will maybe hit me again when some other series are complete :-/ The problem is that even if Ken is implementing this, I doubt there will be another version this year. So you'll have to find a workaround anyway... | | | Karsten
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 5,917 |
| | Posted: | | | | Ken would have to transform it from an small int (2 byte) to a 4 byte integer. Typically, increasing the number of bytes used is painless but I haven't used the database Ken uses for DVDP so I can't say.
I'm 99% sure it would require a newer version of DVDP to implement though. |
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| Registered: March 10, 2007 | | Posts: 4,282 |
| | Posted: | | | | There will definitely be another version this year, so be sure to post this in the feature requests forum. | | | | Invelos Software, Inc. Representative |
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