DVDSpy questions

[nmirza]

I have been playing with DVDSpy all day, and I can't for the life of me get DVDTitles.csv file to work. I have added the .reg file, and tried creating a basic .csv. Things aren't working at all. I have noticed that when I open the sample DVDTitle.csv, there are a lot of control characters. Are these required?

[nmirza]

Yes! That is exactly what I'm seeing. What am I doing wrong?

[siwilson]

Same problem here!

The Regidtry setting is now correct for where the DVDTitles.csv file is (program files\girder31), but all I get in the display is the volume name.

Ideas?

[siwilson]

I straightened out the file/registry location stuff, but still have problems. The serial ting puzzles me. I do have VE, so will check that tonight.

Is the serial number soething other than the volume name of the DVD. example, for Toy Story 2 it is TOY2_43. I get that to show up on the display, but adding a line to the csv with TOY2_43 and a Title doesn't change what I see.

[siwilson]

OK, gotcha,

So the Serial number is returned by GetVolumeInformation.

Apart form getting Girder to show you the contents of Payload 9, is there an easy way to run this command.

Say I have never used DVD Profiler and want to insert a disc an have it tell me the serial number so I can manually edit that into the CSV file.

Sorry for the ignorance.

Simon

[MMcM]

There are no really odd control characters in the file. It is a pretty standard format. It may be that there is just LF at the end of some lines, rather than CRLF. Notepad does not deal with that well. But just about every other program does. And DVDSpy doesn't care.

If you tried in Notepad and that is where it looked strange, try again in Wordpad. Actually, though, my suggestion for the best tool to edit this file is Excel, or some other spreadsheet, if you have one.

The behavior you are seeing is that no matter what you put in the file, you get the volume title, like in Explorer, or the occasional PCFriendly disc.id file. Is that right?

[MMcM]

There is a discrepancy between where the .ZIP file puts the sample .CSV file and where the .REG file says it should be. I will correct that in the next distribution. But it seems that you have already gotten past that problem.

Did you happen to try one of the discs in the sample, such as AVIA or VE? There is nothing special about those ones, but I am fairly sure that the serial numbers are correct.

Otherwise, can I see a few lines of the .CSV file that you are using? In particular, the header line and the data line for a disc that is not matching?

The new 3.1 payload support makes it easier to double check the serial numbers that are used to match database entries. With the Logger plug-in, you’ll see both what DVDSpy was able to make of the title from the database and the key it used as two payload strings for the Disc.Insert event.

[MMcM]

The serial number is what's returned by GetVolumeInformation. I do not think that it is anything directly on the disc, but a hash of file dates and sizes. See this post (http://www.girder.nl/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=5761#5761) for more details. Where is says register 9, it's now a payload string. The CDFS volume name isn't good enough. TOY2_43 might be unique enough; but for some discs it's just DVDVOLUME and things like that.