[DVDFolks] [ANNOUNCE] Version 0.31

[Doug Wright]

Doug Wright wrote:

> James S. Proffitt wrote:
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>>> Did you also get the errors mentioned above?
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>> Yes, on Live Aid only. I've done a bunch of movies (full cast) and 
>> other TV
>> shows (combined) since then. The only problem I've had recently has been
>> with accents on "foreign" names.
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>> I think DVD Folks is easier to use than Cast was.
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>> I love it.
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>> ...James
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> OK - I've tracked down cause of the error, and it because Roger Taylor 
> has two (2) roles, and instead of a combined listing, he is listed 
> twice (once for each role). This is something I was going to handle 
> when I did TV shows proper, but I'll see if I can whip something up.
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> Obviously I'll now be using Live Aid as a test-bed to see if it works, 
> but this is going to be quite an intensive operation to perform 
> (cross/checking each and every name against the entire cast entered so 
> far), and I want to stress test it (and the program in general in fact).
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> The 1956 version of Around the World in 80 days has 1200 listed cast 
> IIRC. Does anyone know of anything longer [asks, but isn't sure he 
> wants to know the answer...]
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OK - I've tested 0.35 (released in 5 mins...) against Live Aid and all 
works fine. It now works on full cast and crew so will actually import 
the entire cast now!

As for stress-testing - there are 1292 cast listed for Around the World 
in 80 Days. From the time I clicked on verify to the time it finished 
displaying the edit boxes was 6mins 20secs. DVDProfilerCast took 2 
seconds. But it wasn't performing 835,278(!!!) checks for duplicate 
names....

The average film (tried current top 5), took about 1 second, so its not 
too bad a slowdown. If there's a film with a longer cast, I don't want 
to know!

-- 
Doug

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