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- LMC Movie Database -
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* Description
* Issues on transcode
* python2.3 vs. python2.4 issues



Description
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LMC is primarily a port of the Windows program AMC, Ant Movie Catalog,
(http://www.antp.be/software/moviecatalog) by Antoine Potten.

It lets you manage your collection of movie CDs /DVDs by scanning the
file for technical details (audio-, video bitrate, codecs, resolution, etc)
and uses scripts to download information (producer, country, comments,
descriptions, rating, picture) on the movie title from the internet. 



Issues on transcode
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transcode provides a set of command line tools one of which is tcprobe.
It scans media files and returns file properties, including:
- audio, video format
- audio, video bitrate
- audio, video codec
- video resolution
- video framerate

Moviefly calls tcprobe when scanning a file for technical information.
Without tcprobe Moviefly is only capable of retrieving title information
from the filename (as far as possible) and determining the file size.

transcode can be obtained from:
http://www.transcoding.org/cgi-bin/transcode


If transcode is not available you can still use Moviefly, but the user
configuration variable "mediaInfo" in ~/.lmc/lmc.conf should be changed
from:
mediaInfo = MediaInfo.Tcprobe

to:
mediaInfo = MediaInfo.MediaInfo

If not changed there will only be a non-critical error message, saying
that the call to tcprobe was unsuccessfull.



python2.3 vs. python2.4 issues
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Moviefly (<= 0.12.2) runs with both python2.3 and python2.4. However,
if you have python2.4 installed the build system will only detect your
newest version of python (python2.4) and require that all related packages
be available for python2.4. This includes:

python2.4-dev
python-qt3
pyqt-tools
python-qt-dev

