I don't understand the difference between those options, but in my opinion it would be better if there is a checkbox to enable/disable the feature in the Settings.
JavLuv JAV Browser
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I like the idea of being able to add JAV clips to JavLuv. What I sometimes do to save on disk space, is cut a specific scene from a movie and keep only that. I also have random JAV clips that I like (e.g. user created compilations and such). It would be nice to be able to add those to JavLuv somehow. I can imagine having a tile under the actress view on JavLuv that links to clips featuring that actress. Managing metadata would be mostly a manual thing, but still. I think it would actually be better than just organizing in folders and use Explorer, because of the nice interface of JavLuv and it being the central hub for me and my JAV collection. You know what would be awesome? If there was a functionality in JavLuv to make screenshots of clips to add to the metadata.
What could potentially work against this is the technical implementation and making JavLuv to complex or intimidating to use if you're not already very familiar with it. I love how easy to use and robust it is right now.
Oddly enough, JavLuv actually supports storing preview/thumbnail images. I just never figured out how I should display it.
Howdy TmpGuy. Here's a little issue I've run into. The thing about it is that once you've done the process I'm about to describe you wouldn't have to do it again or at least not very often so to integrate the commands into the software may be more trouble than its worth. That said, After scanning perhaps 20K files there are about 200 files that have no cover/nfo data and they come up as a blank image in Javluv. I've decided that a convenient way to deal with these videos is to isolate them, move them to a particular folder , and then I can try and identify errors in file names or find data/covers on sites that Javluv doesn't scrape. Doing this within JavLuv is a highly convoluted process, you can import cover data and manually enter data but it is a cumbersome process and I feel like if I could move all of those files elsewhere and attend to them piecemeal. Problem with that idea is that without cover data you cannot move the files, especially if you want to move them en-masse. I thought I would be clever and select all of the offending files and them import a cover for all of them at one time, just a generic cover to satisfy that requirement to do the move en-mass. No dice, I would have to go though the process of importing a cover for each title and then moving. Now, after my typically long message (sorry) Is there a better way to accomplish this and I'm just too dense to figure it out or is the only option to do as I've described when dealing with these dataless titles? Thanks in advance..
I have so much stuff that Javluv ignores, RedHotJam, Caribbean,com, JAVHD, TokyoHot, 1-Pondo, Fc2-..., Older titles, titles that I got on Highporn.net/japanese-bukkake.net, Mis-Named titles with no way to acertain the correct name, and of course 'clips'. I have about 1k clips that I deemed worth keeping. JavLuv ignores all of these and I've learned to isolate them before I do a folder scan.. Don't get me wrong, this is not a shortcoming of JavLuv, but many of these do not have 'cover' images and none of them are listed on main referance sites like Javlibrary. So this is not a shortcoming of Javluv IMO and to a very large extent I see those titles as outliers. That said it would be grand if Javluv could integrate a thumbnail capability, like ezthumb, that would generate a small thumbnail file in the absense of a cover. this , of course, would slow the process so maybe make it an optional feature. Ultimately that is just wishful thinking on my part and I am always extremely grateful for the program as it is. These "extras" would be gravey but definitely not a deal breaker.
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It sounds like the main problem is that JavLuv can't move movies unless they have a cover image. I don't see why that should be a requirement. That seems like it should be fairly easy to fix.
Beyond that, I'm not sure if this will immediately help or not, but you can always tell JavLuv not to do anything if it can't find online metadata for a movie by leaving this option unchecked:
Also, I'm aware manually entering movie data is sort of clumsy right now (including importing a cover image), and hope I can improve that at some point. If you've got specific ideas about how to improve that, let me know. For cover images, I need to allow importing from the detail page, and I need to get copy / pasting images working properly.
Yes, with regard to the Generate metadata from local... I mentally flip back and forth about using that option, lately (I'm in the process of rescanning everything... AGAIN (My issue not yours) but in any case but using the Generate metadata from local files gives me a blank image for the unsuccessful files and in my current state of reason it helps to visually identify the files that are problematic. Just yesterday I mass selected a bunch of those files and deleted the metadata which then removes them from the list,,,, Yeah I know I'm very indecisive. I am just not sure which approach is the least cumbersome when I have to wade through 10's of Thousands of files. I have perhaps 5K of files that do not get covers/nfo files and they are not even the ones that I know Javluv won't find like TokyoHot, Caribbean, Fc2... and the myriad of incorrectly named files. I have all of those files isolated so that JavLuv doesn't even scan those, the several Thousand are seemingly having a proper code but not scraped for a variety of reasons. I think that ultimately I will just have to slog through these files to see if I can find a cover and possibly nfo data and just do that One at a time, Sigh! It is a lot of tedious work but in the absense of alternatives maybe thats the best course of action. Thanks, as always, TempDude..
@TmpGuy I was wondering. Is it possible to create a Portable version of JavLuv. All I can see thats stopping that is the storing of the Settings file in Appdata/Local/JavLuv rather than locally to a folder and that way, we could have a different version on a different drive like one with backups or Most favourites, and you could store it on the say portable SSD. Now I know my Appdata folder is 5GB but thats a small price to pay for me and it wouldn't necessarily have to move from where it is, just the settings file [JavLuv.settings]
If you can think of a way I can do this current then please share. Im comfortable using xml or anything like that.
EDIT: Its JavLuv.cache ofc where the folder data is stored. So all we would need is an option to have multiple profiles which essentially just uses different versions of this file. I can manually move them depending on what drive or drives im using but Im sure theres a way to add profiles pretty easily I am hoping.
Gonna experiment let you know how I go
Thanks
If you can think of a way I can do this current then please share. Im comfortable using xml or anything like that.
EDIT: Its JavLuv.cache ofc where the folder data is stored. So all we would need is an option to have multiple profiles which essentially just uses different versions of this file. I can manually move them depending on what drive or drives im using but Im sure theres a way to add profiles pretty easily I am hoping.
Gonna experiment let you know how I go
Thanks
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@TmpGuy I was wondering. Is it possible to create a Portable version of JavLuv. All I can see thats stopping that is the storing of the Settings file in Appdata/Local/JavLuv rather than locally to a folder and that way, we could have a different version on a different drive like one with backups or Most favourites, and you could store it on the say portable SSD. Now I know my Appdata folder is 5GB but thats a small price to pay for me and it wouldn't necessarily have to move from where it is, just the settings file [JavLuv.settings]
If you can think of a way I can do this current then please share. Im comfortable using xml or anything like that.
EDIT: Its JavLuv.cache ofc where the folder data is stored. So all we would need is an option to have multiple profiles which essentially just uses different versions of this file. I can manually move them depending on what drive or drives im using but Im sure theres a way to add profiles pretty easily I am hoping.
Gonna experiment let you know how I go
Thanks
This is an item that's been on the to-do list for a while. I'm sure I'll get to it eventually. It's just a matter of priority and how much time to work on extra features like this.
I have a question. In settings i have added for cover " {DVD-ID} {TITLE #80} ({YEAR})-Fanart " and it creates the cover picture corectly from the scraper download.
In the same folder i have a Poster picture " {DVD-ID} {TITLE #80} ({YEAR})-Poster " (only front cover)
My question is why does it use my Poster picture as picture in Movie details and not the scraped Fanart as i also specifi in settings
In the same folder i have a Poster picture " {DVD-ID} {TITLE #80} ({YEAR})-Poster " (only front cover)
My question is why does it use my Poster picture as picture in Movie details and not the scraped Fanart as i also specifi in settings
So, "fanart" is front and back cover, and "poster" is only front cover? Do I understand that correctly?
JavLuv doesn't really support two types of cover images, so it's likely getting confused. I seem to recall in the scraper, if there's only a single image with the same ID in the name as the movie it's currently scraping, it's going to use that image file as the "poster" (full cover) image regardless of what the name is. For instance:
ABC-123.jpg
ABC-123.mp4
will scrape properly as a movie and its related full cover image. I think it only looks at the filenames in more detail (searching for keywords found in Settings) if you have multiple image files, like this:
ABC-123 cover.jpg
ABC-123 thumbs.jpg
ABC-123.mp4
So if i understand it right its not because i put a Poster (only front) picture in the folder its because its scraping the wrong picture into the folder from internet.
Those of you that know me know I can be a bit verbose, those of you who don't, please excuse my wordiness. TmpGuy. Here's a little scenario that, if possible, perhaps you could address in a future iteration. So here's the setup. I'm browsing through about18000 files. I'm slowly working my way through looking for coverless/nfoless titles which show up as a blank cover. As I find one I do a little investigating to see if I can find at least a cover and if not I do a screenshot and use that as the cover.. It is a bit of a cumbersome process but hey, I got time, how much I'm not sure about. The issue that I am running into that is causing me some grief is that, lets say that I've scrolled through several dozen pages of covers, I find a blank, open that one and go to work, no matter what I or don't do, when I page back to the main listing the scroll bar has reset back to the top of the page and I now have to scoll back through to find where I was. I can't do a search, for example let's say that I just fixed alg-253, I go back to the main page, search for ALG or ALG-2 or someting like that and sure I will find all the alg files but nothing else so my cronology is screwed up and my only option is to wade back through every page that I've already scrolled through every single time I make some kind of change. IS there a method by which I can page back to the main page and it will be set to where I left off before I explored the link for an individual file. If not, it's not the end of the world, I'll deal with it, but if it's something that can be addressed I would be very pleased with that option. Thanks as always TmpGuy
Hello folks just wanted to report something for awareness I was scanning a movie mbmp-081, because in the title it has [Chapter 13] it took that as the id in other words Chapter 13 became the id. I believe that JavLuv starts processing the string from left to right and because of the [] took that as the id. I deleted the brackets and scanned again and it was all fine.
MBMP-081 Erotic Romance Cinema Porn Married Woman Sensual Eros [Chapter 13] Married Women Addicted To The Pleasure Of Lesbian Sex 6 Episodes 240 Minutes
A thought. If I right click on a video and choose "open with" and select my thumbnail program (ezthumb) that One click will generate a thumnail without even opening the program. Would it be possible to integrate a "thumbnail" button in the Right click/context menu of Javluv so that with non-cover images you could generate a thumbnail and even better if that thumbnail could be automatically selected as the cover but even without that last option you could then choose import cover and the thumb/cover would be correctly named in the correct folder. I think this would save some time with people that have massive amounts of coverless files. This would also address the previousl posted issue because instead of having to enter the individual titles` screen you could just right clicck, generate cover, move on to the next blank cover without constantly having to scroll back through the list to find where you left off. Just wishful thinking though.
I'm still getting lots of empty slots for actresses. Is there an easy/automatic way to get the actress headshot? Thanks.
Also, similarly, if a movie has no cover image, and I run "regenerate metadata", the movie is then removed from being listed! And it can't seem to be searched anymore. It is still in my computer files, however, has not been deleted.
I've been away for a long time so these may have already been addressed, sorry for the duplication if they have been.
Also, similarly, if a movie has no cover image, and I run "regenerate metadata", the movie is then removed from being listed! And it can't seem to be searched anymore. It is still in my computer files, however, has not been deleted.
I've been away for a long time so these may have already been addressed, sorry for the duplication if they have been.
I haven't used the regenerate metadata option but I suspect it is the same effect and clearling metada. My understanding is that when you do that it removes the referance data, images, etc. contained in the program data folder C:\Users\?\AppData\Local\Javluv It may be a different path for you but this is where the data and Actress images are. When you click clear metadata it will remove the ability for the program to see the file. That said, in the actual directory where the video file is stored you will still have the cover image file (if there is one) as well as the .nfo file. These can be moved to other directory's if you wish but to got the file back into Javluv's database, just rescan the folder where the file(s) are. Javluv will not try to re-download every file in that directory, only what is new, ie your file that you removed. Do a new scan of that folder, if it is only One file it should take only a few seconds to re-integrate because the .nfo files is still intact. The only thing that you may have to wait for is if it needs to re-download the actress file.
As for the empty slots for the actress directory, for me I have a lot of older titles and the program only scrapes a few specific referance sites, if the actress 'head shot' is not available then you're out of luck. You could look for one, do a screencap from the video and then in the actress tab Right click on a blank actress listing and click update actress. IN the Actress tab there's also an option to "show all actresses" if you uncheck that you will only see the actresses for whom you have a headshot file. That's what I do because it's just way too much work to try to find/create headshots for all of the missing Ones and to be honest the headshot images are nice but from a functional standpoint they don't really matter to me. One thing that I have started doing recently is with videos that have little or no referance data I have started to manually enter the actress(s) names and a lot of the time they are actually in the database, sometimes under an alternate name. While in the specific videos` screen, click the little check mark beside actress, add the actress name, close out that screen and then go back into that screen and frequently it will update the data.. I'm probably yapping to much, sorry about that. Probably TmpGuy will stomp in here and in a few seconds he will solve your problem but for now I hope that some of that information will help. Cheers
Unfortunately, no. There are just not as many reliable databases for actresses. Every once in a while I find a new actress database, but especially for older movies it's kind of hit or miss. Sometimes you can search and find the actress headshot online using Google image search, and you can snip an image and paste it.
Regenerate deletes metadata (in the database only) and then tries to regenerate it from online. It kind of has a flaw in that if it can't find it online again, the original will be lost. I've got a bug to fix that sometime. Typically, though, it should show up again fairly shortly after the process starts.
No worries - those are some legit issues.