
File id: Batch movie info downloader

v 1.0a

YOU MUST HAVE DSRUN.EXE TO RUN THIS PROGRAM.

This program will download movie info from imdb, and save it in one or more formats.
It can also download subtitles.


How to use:

Drag and drop ONLY movie files on the program, click on "Start the auto search"
Click on "Start the auto search" on the left, to start the search.


You should prepare your movies filename.

Everything after "." (dot) in a filename will be ignored.

movie.title.[2008].blah blah - not good
movie title [2008].blah blah - good.
movie title..blah blah - also good, lower chance of success, no year.
You can remove the year if you are not sure.





This program can save info in following formats:
-imdb page as png image
-movie poster
-imdb page as html, without images (you can use windows "search text in file" later, to find genre or actor/actress in a movie(s))
-imdb page as text
-internet shortcut of the imdb web page
-imdb page as mht, web page with images, (no comments on web page.)
-imdb page as zipped html file with images, .htmz.

 To open htmz file, right click on file, select "open with", then browse to "openhtmz.bat". Check "always use the selected ...".
 (make sure you open it in Internet explorer, otherwise you won't see user reviews. You can edit "openhtmz.bat").

-"Browse" button will transfer list of files into image browser, so you can check if program downloaded correct files.
-"Oscar" will open program Oscar to search for subtitles. You can open one file or all files in dir.
 You can also change Oscar settings languages. Currently it is  Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian and English language subtitles.
 Some media players, like Umplayer, can also search for subtitle of the movie playing in the program.
-Manual search:
 select file from the list, click "Manual search" button. If none selected, program will move to the first file in the list.
 when you find the movie on the imdb, open link, copy movie address into memory, 
 and click "Download" button.
 Movie address is something like this: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt<numbers here>/


-"Open after download" - open some of these when found automatically does not work with turbo mode.

-By default string "movie" is added to google search string.
There is 7 second delay when using IECapt, to load user reviews


-If you want you can use "Show hidden programs running" to see wget downloading files.


-Turbo mode
in this mode, web page will be saved in formats selected, but the program will not wait for the download to finish.
Because some files, "web page as image" in particular, can take longer, show hidden programs should be set to "on"
Or use task manager to close cmd, or IECapt program if you do not want to wait any longer.
In this mode open when finish program does not work, since the program does not know when file (like img) is downloaded.




Additional programs:

-you can use "print page to xxxxxx.bat" programs to save web files in some formats. (png, pdf, mht, htmz)

-To disable ads use mvp hosts file in mvp dir. Start the bat file to install.

-You can use oscar from oscar dir to download subtitles. Or Sublight (www.sublight.si). Or www.podnapisi.net site.

-Batch for moving ALL files in directory to their single dir. 
 "movie file name.avi" will be moved to "movie file name\movie file name.avi"

Some other similar programs:
boxee, wd live movie sheet generator, My Movie Library, tivixie,thumbgen, xbmc







Troubleshooting:


-This program has problems if copied to dropbox folder, and dropbox syncing is running while program is running too.
 So, stop syncing if you have unpacked this program in Dropbox folder.

-Settings.ini will save settings when program is closed.
 State will be the same as it was when on program exit.
 To reset to defaults, delete settings.ini (not really recommended.)

-Orca (command line subtitle download) will sometimes fail to download second subtitle if it exists.
you can use oscar to double check or sublight (big program, external download.)

-Savepage (program for saving page as mht) sometimes fails to download page, with error message.

-Oscar does not accept mp4 or rmvb files. You can try changing extension to avi.




This programs comes with, and uses some of the following programs:
-CutyCapt web page printer: http://cutycapt.sourceforge.net/
-IECapt web page printer: http://iecapt.sourceforge.net/
-hosts file from mvp (remove ads): http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm
-info zip binaries, latest windows version : http://www.willus.com/archive/zip64/
-Lynx text www browser: http://lynx.isc.org/
-Oscar subtitle downloader: http://oscar.dunres.sk/, http://trac.opensubtitles.org/projects/oscar
-ORCA (OpenSubtitles Rusty Command-line Add-on): http://orca.dunres.sk/projects/orca/
-SavePage, by Decision Point Solutions, (save as .mht)
-Wget web downloader: http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/



Oscar is currently set to search for Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian and English language subtitles.
You can chage this in preferences.

You can use IrfanView (http://www.irfanview.com/) for image viewing.







changes in version 1.0a
-bugfix in manual download
-added batch for moving files in single dir. "movie file name.avi" will be moved to "movie file name\movie file name.avi"



changes in version 1.0
-added option to open oscar, you can choose to open dir with movies, or just one file in oscar.
-note: server for downloading apps using orca sometimes throws error?

changes in version 0.99d
-new version of Oscar, subtitle download app. Now, when you click on Oscar button it will add movie files in the dir :) .


changes in version 0.99c
-added IECapt as default (except for pdf bat file. IECapt does not support pdf.)
-delay set to 7 sec.

changes in version 0.99b
-turbo mode

changes in version 0.99a
-added save page as .htmz, which is a zipped html with images.
-to open it right click/open with/browse for openhtmz.bat,"always use selected program to open this kind of file"
-you can edit openhtmz.bat in notepad.
-you might need to update internet explorer.
-added print to pdf, png, htmz bat files.
 for pdf cutycapt is used. IECapt is used for png.
 for htmz, wget is used and then zipped using infozip beta.
-settings.ini



*.dsc = source file

This program is freeware. Although, you can send me postcards, or something if you like.
Money is welcome, too. :)
This program is provided as-is, without warranties of any kind.
This program was written in VDS 2.22


Bojan Djuric
havaji@yahoo.com
http://vuks.vdsworld.com
http://dbojan.co.cc


Bojan Djuric
Radoja Domanovica 12
78000 Banja LUKA
Bosnia and Herzegovina
