Profile Comparison Plus Plugin for DVD Profiler

What's This?

A plugin that enhances the preview of profile changes when accepting/rejecting updates from the Online database.

Feature Highlights

• Synchronized side-by-side display of corresponding data in the existing and the new profile. No more frantic left and right scrolling necessary.
• Exact highlighting of differences down to word level. Ensures that you can easily spot any changes even in large text fields like Overview.
• Highlighting of inserted, deleted and re-ordered pieces of data.
• Toggle between displaying all data sections or changed ones only.
• Credits folding to focus on small differences in large cast and crew lists.
• Menu with advanced commands to open the comparison in a new, non-modal window, to flag the currently compared profile for later review, and to copy existing or new cast or crew as XML to the clipboard.
• Extended info about cover images (dimensions, file size).
• Toggle between displaying cover images in original size or scaled to fit into the window.
• Links to Contributors and Contribution Notes.

New Features in Version 1.2

• Support for DVD Profiler 3.5.0 and 3.5.1.
• Selective update of front or back cover scans. No need to accept both, if you only need one of them.
• Supports image-only comparisons, including extended image info and selective update.
• Supports Add DVD preview comparisons the same way as Update previews.
  A little known feature of DVD Profiler's Add DVD dialog allows you to flag two profiles and preview them side by side.
• New command Copy Existing Custom Crew allows you to copy your custom crew entries to the clipboard before accepting a crew update and append them to your profile afterwards. If the existing crew contains dividers (e.g. episode dividers), dividers preceding a custom crew entry are included in the copied data to make manual merging easier.

Requirements

• DVD Profiler 3.5.0 or 3.5.1 (Invelos).
• Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows Vista.

Terms of Use

This software is Copyright (c) 2007-2008 Matthias Wolf, Germany AKA goodguy. All rights reserved.

• DISCLAIMER This software is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and noninfringement. In no event shall the author be liable for any claim, damages or other liability, whether in an action of contract, tort or otherwise, arising from, out of or in connection with the software or the use or other dealings in the software.
• DISTRIBUTION The registered version of Profile Comparison Plus cannot be distributed.
  Distribution of the trial version is permitted only for the whole software package without any modifications.
• INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY This software is owned by the author. You may not disassemble, decompile or decrypt it.
• TRIAL VERSION You may evaluate this software for a 30-day trial period. After the trial period, you must either purchase a registration, or discontinue using the product by removing it completely from your computer.
• REGISTERED VERSION Registration grants you the non-transferable license to either use this software on a single computer with multiple users, or on multiple computers with the same single user.

Feedback

If you have questions, comments, or suggestions, you can send a PM to goodguy on the Invelos forums. Alternatively, you can reply to this Invelos forum thread.

Install Steps

1. Download PCP.zip (356KB) and unpack it into a temporary folder.
2. Launch the newly unpacked file Setup.exe, which will guide you through the rest of the installation process.
3. When Setup is finished, it will open the PCP Preview Skin in Notepad. In DVD Profiler, you have to manually create an HTML section from the content of this file. Detailed instructions on how to do that are available at the top of the file.

Uninstall Steps

1. Open the Control Panel (on the Start menu, point to Settings, then click Control Panel).
2. Double-click the icon Add/Remove Programs.
3. On the toolbar on the left, click Change or Remove Programs to display the list programs installed on your computer.
4. Select Profile Comparison Plus in the list, then click the Change/Remove button to uninstall it.

Version History

• v1.2.1: Support for DVD Profiler 3.5.1.
• v1.2.0: Support for DVD Profiler 3.5.0 and various enhancements. See detailed list above.
• v1.1.0: Various enhancements.
• Menu with advanced commands to open the comparison in a new, non-modal window, to flag the currently compared profile for later review, and to copy existing or new cast or crew as XML to the clipboard.
• Fold credits to hide chunks of unchanged credit entries and focus on differences in large cast and crew lists with small changes.
• Various configuration options. See screen shots for details.
• Localization support.
• v1.0.1: Support for DVD Profiler 3.1.
• Support for extended case type info (Slip Cover etc.) as introduced in DVD Profiler 3.1.0.1139.
• Ownership info included in header.
• Minor bugfixes.
• v1.0.0: Created.