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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
Send bug-reports, comments to mriester@gmx.de
Icons are taken from KDE and
GNOME.
Bar (and code for displaying it) is taken from Web-APP
Default theme for the 0.9pre-series is taken from plone
This script helps you to manage your (large) movie (DVD,DivX) collection. It ships with an intelligent voting system for many users. aviManager attempts to find the best movie to watch. You will be surprised how good it works. There is also a nice imdb grabber for fast movie adding.
Main features (if you find a free movie database with more features, let me know ;-) ):
IMDb Grabber (including DVD-Cover, plot, ...)
Search IMDb Database and add movies with one click
Voting System: user can vote movies, add movie to a wishlist (-4 = I don't wanna see this movie, 5 = I want to see this movie very soon) and can say how often he has seen the movie.
Great search (optional fuzzy search for typos, Regular Expressions) and ranking possibilites
low system requirements (you don't have to setup something like MySQL-which is great, but not necessary for a small database like this).
subtitle upload
different owners
export moviedatabase to readerfriendly format (templates available for HTML,LateX,Ascii)
statistics
Multilanguage support (English, Danish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Polish, Swedish, Spanish, Russian and Norwegian available)
single user mode: for people who don't want this voting stuff for many users and who just need a little movie database. You can safely switch between modes, if you find friends who are willing to vote.
users can add comments to every movie
last seen list
lent list: set status to lent and aviManager will remind you who borrowed which movie
Movie of the moment (or minute, hour, day, ...)
Requests: Put movies you want to have on this list
A working copy of Perl 5 (tested with 5.6.1 and 5.8).
A basic understanding of both Perl and CGI.
This program has been tested on the following plattforms: Linux 2.4 under Debian Woody and Red Hat 7.x, NetBSD 1.6. Linux 2.6 under Debian Sarge, Mac OSX and Windows There are known Problems with Red Hat 8 (you have to downgrade to Apache 1.x or try to change in aviman.pl, first line "#!/usr/bin/perl -w" to "#!/usr/bin/perl -X") and Solaris (turn off file locking).
aviManager needs a lot of CPU time. It is very comfortable and generates everything on the fly. This could be a problem if you don't have your own webserver. IT IS POSSIBLE THAT YOUR WEBHOSTER DOES NOT LIKE AVIMANAGER AND WILL FORCE YOU TO REMOVE AVIMANAGER OR EVEN CLOSES YOUR ACCOUNT. READ GPL. USE AVIMANAGER AT YOUR OWN RISK. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. SEE WARNING BELOW FOR ANOTHER GOOD REASON NOT TO PUT AVIMANAGER ON A PUBLIC SERVER!
It is not legal to use the IMDb grabber. See http://www.imdb.com/help/show_leaf?usedatasoftware for details. The IMDb grabber in aviManager is only an example implementation. Use this as a template for websites where this way of information gathering is legal. We are working on getting the IMDb data out of their flat files, which would be 100% legal for personal AND non-commercial usage. DON'T PROVIDE ANY IMDB DATA TO THE PUBLIC.
There is one nasty bug in the actors index. Links to actors will sometimes not return all actors. Maybe this is fixed in pre6?
There are a few limitations:
You cannot add duplicates (if you have different versions of this movie). If you need this feature, use the comment-field until this is possible.
You cannot add non imdb-movies. If you have some, use Add movie offline and a fake IMDB ID until this is possible
You cannot set user permissions for different features (for example add movies, but delete/change only his, ...). No good solution at the moment. Trust your friends or give them only an [VIP] account.
Versions 0.x.x are always well tested and contain no known bugs. Other versions are developer versions (CVS-snapshots) that seem to be stable on our machines but contain new (not thoroughly tested) features.
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aviManager - Manual
0.9.2mriester@gmx.de