John C
I've had this issue for a long time and it occurs on two separate systems.
I rip and encode using DVD Decrypter. Once I add a new month's DVD to the main drive I open up VDJ and add it to the database, and then I scan for BPM, time and level adjustment and I'm ready to go.
What's been happening to the main system I work on now has happened on an entirely different setup too starting quite a few years back and several updates since. I have not compared if the same files are possibly corrupt on both systems.
The Problem: I'm using search and will discover I have an Intro, but the main videos file is not appearing in VDJ. This is when I started looking further to find the main file. I ripped the entire DVD at once, same settings, and I'm discovering more and more Videos files not appearing when I search.
I can open up the actual file and see the video file is in it's folder with the rest of the month but this video file will not appear in VDJ's search field.
I re-curse and it still doesn't find the file that's right there in the folder window but has disappeared from the search field.
I have done a few things to try and overcome this MAJOR problem.
When I was moving into a second CPS I was finding file count discrepancies, meaning the file was supposed to contain a certain number of videos and there was much less showing in the search field. I took the VDJ database file off the drive and re-cursed, and then many missing videos showed back up. I then merged the original database with newest re-cursed db and discovered many lost song files that VDJ's search field had rejected showing in the search. Some of these started out being all there in a search and then a few video files would be lost, or hidden again in no particular fashion.
One other avenue I've taken is to convert that particular VOB to an MPG. When I say convert I mean simply changing the .VOB extension to MPG. For those who didn't know this I really can't explain it, but then the videos work in Windows and other media players as a universal standard recognizable video file. Once I've done that it magically appears in the search and shows no data, as if it was a complete new file being scanned. All of the ones that I have converted played, and continue to appear in searchs.
Recently, I had stumbled across a thread on this forum that had something similar about this, and after searching several ways in regard to corrupt database, I did not find any other information of others having this problem. Even though a few days ago I saw what appeared to be an acknowledgment of this issue and a comment from someone about working on the fix.
Anyone have any ideas to HELP me out?
I rip and encode using DVD Decrypter. Once I add a new month's DVD to the main drive I open up VDJ and add it to the database, and then I scan for BPM, time and level adjustment and I'm ready to go.
What's been happening to the main system I work on now has happened on an entirely different setup too starting quite a few years back and several updates since. I have not compared if the same files are possibly corrupt on both systems.
The Problem: I'm using search and will discover I have an Intro, but the main videos file is not appearing in VDJ. This is when I started looking further to find the main file. I ripped the entire DVD at once, same settings, and I'm discovering more and more Videos files not appearing when I search.
I can open up the actual file and see the video file is in it's folder with the rest of the month but this video file will not appear in VDJ's search field.
I re-curse and it still doesn't find the file that's right there in the folder window but has disappeared from the search field.
I have done a few things to try and overcome this MAJOR problem.
When I was moving into a second CPS I was finding file count discrepancies, meaning the file was supposed to contain a certain number of videos and there was much less showing in the search field. I took the VDJ database file off the drive and re-cursed, and then many missing videos showed back up. I then merged the original database with newest re-cursed db and discovered many lost song files that VDJ's search field had rejected showing in the search. Some of these started out being all there in a search and then a few video files would be lost, or hidden again in no particular fashion.
One other avenue I've taken is to convert that particular VOB to an MPG. When I say convert I mean simply changing the .VOB extension to MPG. For those who didn't know this I really can't explain it, but then the videos work in Windows and other media players as a universal standard recognizable video file. Once I've done that it magically appears in the search and shows no data, as if it was a complete new file being scanned. All of the ones that I have converted played, and continue to appear in searchs.
Recently, I had stumbled across a thread on this forum that had something similar about this, and after searching several ways in regard to corrupt database, I did not find any other information of others having this problem. Even though a few days ago I saw what appeared to be an acknowledgment of this issue and a comment from someone about working on the fix.
Anyone have any ideas to HELP me out?
Posté Sat 14 Feb 09 @ 3:10 am
bonaparte
When your moving the files to and from the two different systems, I'm guessing the files are on an external drive. Is the drive letter the same for both systems? If not you may want to make it the same.
As far as changing the extension from VOB to MPG, when you do that VirtualDJ sees this as an entirely new file so it will show up new in the database. If you are going to do this best to do this before presenting the file to VirtualDJ. For file that are already in the database as VOB, is for you to go ahead and rename all your VOB files with the MPG extension and then edit the VirtualDJ database file found on the root of your hard drive using notepad. Do a search and replace on all ".VOB" to ".MPG". That way when you open Virtual DJ all your video files that previously shown up with the VOB extension will now show up as they did before, just now having the MPG extension. (always make a backup copy of your database file prior to manually editing it in notepad)
As far as files not showing up in search, go to the folder with the video files are stored and right click and chose add to search.
This may not solve all your issue but, hopefully it will help.
As far as changing the extension from VOB to MPG, when you do that VirtualDJ sees this as an entirely new file so it will show up new in the database. If you are going to do this best to do this before presenting the file to VirtualDJ. For file that are already in the database as VOB, is for you to go ahead and rename all your VOB files with the MPG extension and then edit the VirtualDJ database file found on the root of your hard drive using notepad. Do a search and replace on all ".VOB" to ".MPG". That way when you open Virtual DJ all your video files that previously shown up with the VOB extension will now show up as they did before, just now having the MPG extension. (always make a backup copy of your database file prior to manually editing it in notepad)
As far as files not showing up in search, go to the folder with the video files are stored and right click and chose add to search.
This may not solve all your issue but, hopefully it will help.
Posté Mon 16 Feb 09 @ 7:21 am
John C
Bonaparte,
Thanks for taking some time to share what should work & help.
Am I the only one having this issue?
Thanks for taking some time to share what should work & help.
Am I the only one having this issue?
Posté Wed 18 Feb 09 @ 8:04 am