JavLuv JAV Browser

[abbaskip]

A load of my files have hard coded subs and a tag in the file name (eg. [English Subtitles], [ENG], [ENG SUBS] etc) - is there any chance of having recognition of this added? Would be good to be able to filter or see which files have subs and which don't (sometimes I feel like reading, sometimes I don't).

Would also be great if we could filter/search by genre/tag? Can't seem to do that.

Also - is there a way to have the app remove movies that you've deleted from your HDD? I thought doing a new search would do the job, but it doesn't I know I can manually edit the file, but that's not ideal; and Ive tried rebuilding the DB, but then it re-downloads all the actresses.

 

[DScott]

With respect o removing movies that you've deleted from the hdd, if you right click on the cover image, since you've already removed the movie, click delete metadata, that will remove the cover/nfo data from Javluv's database. This may not be practical if you have a bunch of deleted videos and I don't think there's a way to do it en-masse but this works for me. One other little trick. Sometimes you will have video that has no cover associated with it so when you try to delete it it will error out. The solution , at least for me is first associate an image with that title, it doesn't matter what, then right click on the image and click delete movie. As for you question about the English subs , if that is indicated in the actual filename that information will be listed at the bottom of the screen. Also if the filename has Sub or Eng or subs or whatever in the filename you can use the search feature to search for "sub" or "eng". I have a habit of having all of my subbed titles in One folder and then I use "renamer" (a great little free file renaming unility) to append --Subtitled to the end of the file name, that makes it very easy to search for them in Javluv or explorer or whatever... I hope that helps..

 

[TmpGuy]

A load of my files have hard coded subs and a tag in the file name (eg. [English Subtitles], [ENG], [ENG SUBS] etc) - is there any chance of having recognition of this added? Would be good to be able to filter or see which files have subs and which don't (sometimes I feel like reading, sometimes I don't).

Did you see the "Hard subtitled" checkbox in the movie details page? That's the support for hard-subbed movies JavLuv currently has. Soft subtitles are automatically detected.

I'm thinking about adding more support for name-based tagging in a future update, which might include hard subtitles, different movie variations, etc. Not sure when I can get to that though.

Would also be great if we could filter/search by genre/tag? Can't seem to do that.

JavLuv can search and filter based on pretty much any field, including genre tags. You can read the Wiki for more advanced search techniques as well.

Also - is there a way to have the app remove movies that you've deleted from your HDD? I thought doing a new search would do the job, but it doesn't I know I can manually edit the file, but that's not ideal; and Ive tried rebuilding the DB, but then it re-downloads all the actresses.

If you check Advanced options in settings, you get some additional options, such as Delete movie and Delete metadata. If those don't work, just delete manually and Remove from library.

 

[abbaskip]

With respect o removing movies that you've deleted from the hdd, if you right click on the cover image, since you've already removed the movie, click delete metadata, that will remove the cover/nfo data from Javluv's database. This may not be practical if you have a bunch of deleted videos and I don't think there's a way to do it en-masse but this works for me. One other little trick. Sometimes you will have video that has no cover associated with it so when you try to delete it it will error out. The solution , at least for me is first associate an image with that title, it doesn't matter what, then right click on the image and click delete movie. As for you question about the English subs , if that is indicated in the actual filename that information will be listed at the bottom of the screen. Also if the filename has Sub or Eng or subs or whatever in the filename you can use the search feature to search for "sub" or "eng". I have a habit of having all of my subbed titles in One folder and then I use "renamer" (a great little free file renaming unility) to append --Subtitled to the end of the file name, that makes it very easy to search for them in Javluv or explorer or whatever... I hope that helps..

My issue in this sense is that I've found a load of Movies that I have twice. Ideally I'd like to just delete the video, refresh the directory and have those that are dupes removed - but there's no simple way to do this?

 

[abbaskip]

Did you see the "Hard subtitled" checkbox in the movie details page? That's the support for hard-subbed movies JavLuv currently has. Soft subtitles are automatically detected.

I'm thinking about adding more support for name-based tagging in a future update, which might include hard subtitles, different movie variations, etc. Not sure when I can get to that though.



JavLuv can search and filter based on pretty much any field, including genre tags. You can read the Wiki for more advanced search techniques as well.



If you check Advanced options in settings, you get some additional options, such as Delete movie and Delete metadata. If those don't work, just delete manually and Remove from library.

Yep, I saw the hard sub checkbox, but with 100s of movies, it's laborious to go through and check those with subs - that's the whole point, to have the software do that for me.

Regarding the search, stupid me just found the search box - however it would be good if we could double click tags in movie descriptions, as we can actresses etc?

 

[abbaskip]

Actually I found an easily recreatable bug too:
i) Clicking the left and right arrows to scroll through your collection
ii) Double click an actress
iii) Go back to the Movie/Title that had her in it (you should be back to scrolling through your collection)
iv) If you now use the arrows to scroll your collection it only scrolls through that actress

 

[TmpGuy]

Actually I found an easily recreatable bug too:
i) Clicking the left and right arrows to scroll through your collection
ii) Double click an actress
iii) Go back to the Movie/Title that had her in it (you should be back to scrolling through your collection)
iv) If you now use the arrows to scroll your collection it only scrolls through that actress

I may be misunderstanding, but in iii), if you double-clicked the original movie from within the actress view instead of using the back button, then this is working as designed. The idea of the left and right scroll buttons is that you're scrolling through the previous collection you were viewing. So yes, you'll only see the movies with that actress in it, because you were just viewing only the movies with that actress is it. It works the same way if you use keywords to restrict your collection to a subset - the left and right arrows in the detail view will scroll through the filtered collection.

 

[TmpGuy]

Yep, I saw the hard sub checkbox, but with 100s of movies, it's laborious to go through and check those with subs - that's the whole point, to have the software do that for me.

Regarding the search, stupid me just found the search box - however it would be good if we could double click tags in movie descriptions, as we can actresses etc?

Sure, anything's possible. I've got a massive list of future feature suggestions, and I'm slowly working though them. I generally don't make any promises about if or when new features will be implemented though, since it's just me on this project, and I can only do the work in my spare time.

 

[TmpGuy]

My issue in this sense is that I've found a load of Movies that I have twice. Ideally I'd like to just delete the video, refresh the directory and have those that are dupes removed - but there's no simple way to do this?

There really isn't a "detect and delete dupes" function in JavLuv, because it kind of tries to prevent you from adding dupes in the first place. By default, it should give you an error if you try to import a movie with an identical ID. I'm kind of curious how you're ending up with dupes in the first place.

Or do you just mean they're on your hard drive and not necessarily imported into JavLuv yet? If so, you can find a lot of dupe-detector software out there to do this for you.

 

[DScott]

With respect o removing movies that you've deleted from the hdd, if you right click on the cover image, since you've already removed the movie, click delete metadata, that will remove the cover/nfo data from Javluv's database. This may not be practical if you have a bunch of deleted videos and I don't think there's a way to do it en-masse but this works for me. One other little trick. Sometimes you will have video that has no cover associated with it so when you try to delete it it will error out. The solution , at least for me is first associate an image with that title, it doesn't matter what, then right click on the image and click delete movie. As for you question about the English subs , if that is indicated in the actual filename that information will be listed at the bottom of the screen. Also if the filename has Sub or Eng or subs or whatever in the filename you can use the search feature to search for "sub" or "eng". I have a habit of having all of my subbed titles in One folder and then I use "renamer" (a great little free file renaming unility) to append --Subtitled to the end of the file name, that makes it very easy to search for them in Javluv or explorer or whatever... I hope that helps..

My issue in this sense is that I've found a load of Movies that I have twice. Ideally I'd like to just delete the video, refresh the directory and have those that are dupes removed - but there's no simple way to do this?

Yes, I have run into this issue myself. What I have been doing, while navigating in JavLuv is when there are multiple versions of the same video I will click on the small folder icon to the left of the file name(S) and first check to make sure that they are in fact dupes, sometimes there's an a and b or 1 and 2 where the movie has been split so I check that they are in fact dupes and then delete one of them. I've not found a way to update Javluv, which I think is what you're after. it would be good to be able to update JAVluv's database to reflect that change automatically as soon as you remove the dupe(s). My method is to delete the dupe, then delete the metada for that file and then rescan that folder, the rescan will only update the file that you removed the metada for. You could also make a project of removing multiple dupes and then do , remove the corresponding metada, then rescan. These are problems that I just do the best I can with but I definitely have run into this issue. Good luck.

 

[DScott]

I'm just tossing out a thought. When I encounter an file in Javluv, if I find a file that has no cover image the process is that I have to open my browser, search for an image, download it then go to Javluv and import that image. Maybe this is impractical for a variety of reasons but this process could be greatly reduced by having the "import Cover" option link to either my own browser or a rudimentary browser so I could do the process in one step. I get a LOT of files that don't get covers (mostly older titles) so this would be a nice option, not necessary of course but just food for thought . Cheers.

 

[TmpGuy]

I'm just tossing out a thought. When I encounter an file in Javluv, if I find a file that has no cover image the process is that I have to open my browser, search for an image, download it then go to Javluv and import that image. Maybe this is impractical for a variety of reasons but this process could be greatly reduced by having the "import Cover" option link to either my own browser or a rudimentary browser so I could do the process in one step. I get a LOT of files that don't get covers (mostly older titles) so this would be a nice option, not necessary of course but just food for thought . Cheers.

Your browser should already have a "copy image" function. I made a stab at pasting the image in JavLuv, but it doesn't work very consistently. I should get this working properly, as I think this would simplify the process quite a bit. I also need to fix the issue that the context menu in movie detail view doesn't appear if there is no image showing already.

 

[abbaskip]

I may be misunderstanding, but in iii), if you double-clicked the original movie from within the actress view instead of using the back button, then this is working as designed. The idea of the left and right scroll buttons is that you're scrolling through the previous collection you were viewing. So yes, you'll only see the movies with that actress in it, because you were just viewing only the movies with that actress is it. It works the same way if you use keywords to restrict your collection to a subset - the left and right arrows in the detail view will scroll through the filtered collection.

Yes, but the point is that I'm clicking "back" to go back to the list of movies that I was in. As I'm now back in my original list of all movies, it shouldn't limit me to that actress.

Basically it's keeping me in the actress list after I click back, to go back to the full list.

 

[TmpGuy]

Yes, but the point is that I'm clicking "back" to go back to the list of movies that I was in. As I'm now back in my original list of all movies, it shouldn't limit me to that actress.

Basically it's keeping me in the actress list after I click back, to go back to the full list.

Oh, I see what you're describing now. Yeah, that's a bug all right. The problem is that the internal scroll list of movies isn't regenerated until you return to the browser view, so you're seeing the previous one which just shows the actress' movies. I'll have to think about how to fix this. Thanks for the report!

 

[lock_on]

Oh, I see what you're describing now. Yeah, that's a bug all right. The problem is that the internal scroll list of movies isn't regenerated until you return to the browser view, so you're seeing the previous one which just shows the actress' movies. I'll have to think about how to fix this. Thanks for the report!

Can you also make it possible when we play random movie, the browser automatically open the selected movie? I think it will be useful in some case when we need to see the detail of the movie. But when clicking the back button, it would retain the last filter/scroll position. Thank you.

 

[TmpGuy]

Can you also make it possible when we play random movie, the browser automatically open the selected movie? I think it will be useful in some case when we need to see the detail of the movie. But when clicking the back button, it would retain the last filter/scroll position. Thank you.

Sure, I think that would be pretty easy to implement. The scroll position and filters are already retained unless you advance more than one level deep. For example, if you double-click on an actress from the detail view, the original browser scroll position would be reset. That's a bug I'd like to fix, but no promises on that one. This would be a non-default option you can set in Settings, since that's behavior I wouldn't care to use myself, I think.

I'm also guessing by "random" you mean "arbitrary" movie, not only when you are filtering by random?

 

[lock_on]

Sure, I think that would be pretty easy to implement. The scroll position and filters are already retained unless you advance more than one level deep. For example, if you double-click on an actress from the detail view, the original browser scroll position would be reset. That's a bug I'd like to fix, but no promises on that one. This would be a non-default option you can set in Settings, since that's behavior I wouldn't care to use myself, I think.

Yes, I think that is enough. It's just a bit hassle when we are scrolling and need to see the detail of some movie. We need to scroll back down again to continue where it was.

I'm also guessing by "random" you mean "arbitrary" movie, not only when you are filtering by random?

What I mean is the function of playing a random movie. For example, I filter "prestige" then select all movies, right click --> play random movie, the browser still stay at browser view, It would be better if the browser change to detail view about the movie which is currenty played.

 

[yukaz1]

i have some western movies, i want add to javluv , how to do it ? scan file first or edit rename file manually ? because javluv cant detect western movie...

thaxu

 

[TmpGuy]

What I mean is the function of playing a random movie. For example, I filter "prestige" then select all movies, right click --> play random movie, the browser still stay at browser view, It would be better if the browser change to detail view about the movie which is currenty played.

Oh, I get it. Yeah, I can see that being useful. I was mentally stuck on the "Random" movie ordering, which made less sense. When you pick a random movie to play, it might be nice to get some additional information about which movie was played.

I'm still trying to decide if this should be non-optional, a default option, or non-default option. If anyone has opinions on this, let me know.

 

[TmpGuy]

i have some western movies, i want add to javluv , how to do it ? scan file first or edit rename file manually ? because javluv cant detect western movie...

thaxu

JavLuv is pretty specifically designed just for mainstream Japanese adult videos. The entire benefit of JavLuv is being able to organize your collection and search based on metadata. You'd have to enter everything by hand, and give the title a fake ID of some sort. Honestly, it doesn't seem worth it to me.

I've considered maybe adding some support for an internal browser, or some way of organizing western movies, random Jav clips, or non-mainstream JAV movies into collections of some sort, but honestly, it wouldn't be much better than just organizing them in folders and using file explorer.

So, maybe someday, but no promises on that sort of support.