What's This?

A plugin that lets you import a list of UPCs from a text file. Just point to Import UPC List on the Tools menu, click Import From File, then select the file containing the UPCs.

The plugin creates an empty profile with the title "*** Imported UPC <number>" for each UPC in the file. The plugin will never overwrite existing profiles - UPCs for them are simply ignored. A detailed description of the input file format is available further down below.

To download actual data for the newly added profiles, click Refresh Updated Profiles on the Online menu.

After that, you have to fix the sort titles for the downloaded profiles. To do so, point to Import UPC List on the Tools menu, then click Fix Sort Titles.

Requirements

DVD Profiler 3.0 (Invelos).

Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP or newer.

Import File Format

UPCs are imported from an ANSI text file. Each UPC must be on a new line. Hyphens within an UPC are allowed, space characters aren't. A locality number, separated by a dot, may be appended to an UPC. Arbitrary text may follow the UPC, if it is separated by at least a single space character. To specify a common locality for all subsequent UPCs, place a dot followed by the locality number on a new line. To add all subsequent UPCs to a specific collection, place either "Owned", "Ordered", or "WishList" on a single line. By default UPCs are added to the Wish List. Example:

Owned                    // Add subsequent UPCs to this collection
634991316729        // Add UPC with default locality 0 (USA)
5050582424560.4    // Add UPC with locality 4 (UK)
.5                          // Use locality 5 (Germany) for subsequent UPCs
4006680020860        // Implicit .5
4-010324-020840    // Implicit .5, hyphens are allowed
WishList                  // Add subsequent UPCs to this collection
.2                          // Use locality 2 (Australia) for subsequent UPCs
5050582448627      // Implicit .2

Known Issues

The install.cmd may not work on Windows Vista. In this case, open a command prompt as administrator, switch to the folder containing the unzipped files, and type regsvr32 ImportUPC.dll to register the plugin.

Version 1.0.0 is now available.

Download at http://www.geocities.com/goodguy_dvdpro/

Quoting Ron:

Quote:
A right click and select "Run as administrator" should work just fine ;-)).

I would think so, but can't verify it. Users of both my other plugins stated that the right-click method didn't work, but the manual regsvr32 in an admin command prompt window succeeded.

Hey! Since you're good with plugins, could you make one that lets the user highlight the title and provide a GUI point-and-click lookup to create a hotlink to a DVD on disk? I've been wanting ot do that for years!
VAN

Quoting Staid S Barr:

Quote:
Excuse a possibly dumb question, but where does one find a list of the numbers for the localities that you use in your example?

No, it isn't a dumb question. I'm just too familiar with this stuff. These are the locality numbers as defined in DVDProfiler's localities.dod. They can get expanded (but not changed) whenever you refresh the online list from Invelos. The current list is:

32        Argentina
  2        Australia
40        Austria
30        Belgium
23        Brazil
  3        Canada
19        Canada (Quebec)
  6        China
36        Czech Republic
14        Denmark
45        Estonia
16        Finland
  7        Former Soviet Union
  8        France
  5        Germany
41        Greece
21        Hong Kong
34        Hungary
26        Iceland
39        India
27        Indonesia
44        Ireland
24        Israel
13        Italy
17        Japan
18        Korea
37        Malaysia
25        Mexico
  9        Netherlands
  1        New Zealand
12        Norway
43        Philippines
29        Poland
15        Portugal
35        Singapore
33        Slovakia
20        South Africa
10        Spain
11        Sweden
22        Switzerland
28        Taiwan
38        Thailand
31        Turkey
  4        United Kingdom
(none)  United States
42        Vietnam

Hi, I have a problem with the plugin.

I can import the UPC list - no problem.

When I click on 'Online -> Refresh Online profile list' a screen flashes up (too quick to see what's inside) but that may be because I've done it a few times now.

Then I click 'Tools -> Fix sort titles' I get an error message saying "No fixable sort titles have been found. The command will work *after* you have refreshed the imported profiles with data from the Invelos Online DB."

But if I click 'Online -> Refresh updated profiles from Invelos' I get "All DVD profiles are up to date" and I click the 'Fix sort titles' again and get the same error message. -"No fixable sort titles have been found. The command will work *after* you have refreshed the imported profiles with data from the Invelos Online DB."

Can you tell me what I am doing wrong?

Strange, it comes up with the 'unable to download' error. But we're talking about films like 'the iron giant, waterworld, x-men 2' etc, so I would have thought they'd be there :s

How would I change the localtiy you mention?  I'm in the UK BTW.

All the titles are showing up as *** Imported UPC 5050582427080 for example.  I've tried 'fix sort titles', but this doesn't work either.  I'm convinced it's something I'm doing wrong as no one else seems to be having these problems on the forum.

BTW I'm using 3.0.3 of dvd profiler.

True, but if I cut the number from the title, then add it seperately as a new DVD through the add dvd option, it finds it no problems. - so I don't think it's that.

Could it be someway the plugin is translating the UPC code?

You have to specify the locality in your import file. The default locality is US. That's probably why it doesn't find your UPC.

To specify the UK locality either append ".4" (without the quotes) to your UPC or put ".4" on a separate line before all UPCs that should have the UK locality, e.g.

.4
5050582427080
...

Refer to the first post in this thread for the description of the input file format.