Moviefly - Summary

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Description

Moviefly (alias lmc) is a port of the Ant Movie Catalog by Antoine Potten from Windows (http://www.antp.be/software/moviecatalog) to GNU/Linux.

Moviefly stores information on video media files, including title, actors, genre, descriptions, comments, rating, director, producer, picture, languages, subtitles, video- and audio format, video- and audio bitrates, resolution, framerate, file size and media type.

Technical information can be automatically extracted, descriptive information on a title may be downloaded from the internet.

Screenshots

There are screenshots available for:

• movie menu (97 kB),
• main screen (95 kB),
• script selection dialog (13 kB),
• title preview dialog (13 kB),
• title list (17 kB)

Languages

Moviefly is written in Python and the GUI is implemented with PyQt, the Python extension for Trolltech's Qt GUI toolkit.
Technical information is extracted by using transcode, while downloading information from the internet is achieved by standard IO communication with scripts in any language, currently only Perl scripts are used.

Status

This project is still in development phase, meaning: not all intended features, or all functions from AMC are currently available.
However, working functions include:
file: new, open, save, save as, close, edit meta-properties
movie: add, delete, edit records; scan files, DVDs, CDs for technical information; search IMDB, amazon.com and filmposter-archiv.de for title descriptions; incremental search; full record search; copy, paste, paste as new on records; copy, paste, delete images; link or embedd images, group records according to field values

The file format used is compatible with AMC file format v3.3 and  stable, i.e. I have not lost any records with my movie collection - ever.

Continued Development

Unfortunately also my time is limited and my projects tend to strive towards proof-of-concept rather then perfectionisme. I am sorry for that. However, since I do use them on a regular basis I will keep updating and publishing bugfixes as I find and correct them.

Building Moviefly

1. from sources

Download the latest tarball lmc-X.Y.Z.tar.gz. Since Moviefly uses GNU autotools to build and install the program it all boils down to:

$ tar xvzf lmc-X.Y.Z.tar.gz
$ cd lmc-X.Y.Z
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install

Last will, of cource, require root permissions. You can, however, choose an alternate installation prefix with the --prefix= option to ./configure.

1. Debian

If you are using Debian you can add the following two lines to your /etc/apt/sources.conf:

deb http://www.master-ai.uni-karlsruhe.de/~merkosh/lmc/debian/testing ./

deb-src http://www.master-ai.uni-karlsruhe.de/~merkosh/lmc/debian/testing ./

And run the following as root to update your package list and install moviefly:

$ apt-get update
$ apt-get install lmc

1. Gentoo

If you are using Gentoo, download the file lmc-X.Y.Z.ebuild.tar.gz from the download area. Make sure your local portage tree is activated    and extract the tar-ball into it. Then run:

$ emerge lmc

Notes

• Special Thanks to
  • Ulf Dreyer -- for the Gentoo ebuild 0.12
  • Chris Raczkowski -- for Gentoo ebuild 0.12.3, 0.12.5

• Currently all dependencies are compulsory. This will change later where unmet dependencies will only limit functions of lmc.

• As of release 0.6.1 lmc supports installation and uninstallation. Issue

$ make install

to install lmc and

$ make uninstall

to remove the installation again.

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Registration Date: Mon 10 Jan 2005 06:38:21 PM UTC
License: GNU General Public License v2 or later
Development Status: 4 - Beta