I'd like to make a new plug for my program GsyCastCrew. I recently noticed that the download page had some bad links, so I fixed those. I hope that if anyone tried to download it and failed, they would have notified me, but you never know. Anyway...

The reason for the program was that I wanted to have a data entry window that was as unobtrusive as possible so it could be on top of the DVD player program while I ran the credits. That way I wouldn't have to switch between player and Profiler, so it was much easier to make sure that I spelled the names correctly. It also parses the names, so you don't have to enter first. middle and last in different text boxes.

If anyone is interested in having a go at it — GsyCastCrew.

I didn't say automatically. If you d/l the docs you'll see.

Well, just because you read the credits and enter them doesn't mean that you have to enter them verbatim, unless you intend to contribute them. Even if you prefer "real data" you need to know who is in the film, don't you?

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the rare IMDb errors, rather than copy credits.

As someone who checks film data on a daily basis (and contributes to IMDB also on a daily basis), I can tell you IMDB errors are anything but rare.
Cast, crew, running times, production companies, etc, errors all over the place that need constant correcting....some minor, some major.

Here's but one error (among 12) from last night (minor to be sure):





Thank you for your contribution to IMDb. The information you have supplied is being processed by our team.
We aim to process contributions as quickly as possible, our time to publication changes based on the type of data you are contributing. You can find more details on our processing times page.
Contribution Details

Now You See Him, Now You Don't (1972)
Cast - Replace
Old -
Name: Casper, Billy (I)
Character: Professional Golfer
Order: 24
New -
Name: Casper, Billy (I)
Character: Himself
Order: 24
Old -
Name: Hill, Dave (I)
Character: Professional Golfer
Order: 25
New -
Name: Hill, Dave (XLVIII)
Character: Himself
Order: 25
Explanation: This person is not the actor Dave Hill. It is the Golfer Dave Hill (1937-2011)


Same name, different person.

IMDB works like Invelos online...user contributions and all that implies.
But I do agree that with IMDB at least one gets linking, with Invelos online you don't.

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I agree, if you consider roles, and probably problem of unlinking same name, different (unknown) persons. I don't care about roles (for me Kirk, Captain Kirk or Cpt James Kirk are exactly the same...),
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Actually, I wasn't referring to "roles" (I also don't care if its Kirk, or Captain Kirk)......errors (in IMDB) that I have encountered and corrected include assistant editor being credited as the EDITOR, a production mager being credited as a PRODUCER, a choreographer being credited as a DIRECTOR (simply beacause his credit reads "dances staged and director by", sort of like crediting the director of photography as a DIRECTOR), actors that do not even appear in the movie, someone born in 1980 being credited as appearing in a movie released in 1939, running times being off by more than 20-30 minutes, wrong production companies, and anything else you can imagine....

BTW, I'm not trying to change your mind or stop you from using IMDB


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spelling errors, that are rather rare in IMDb

Not so rare, I'm afraid....especially in lesser known names


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omnipresent in Invelos

Can't say I disagree

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I got tired of using JRuler to measure the height and width of movies on my PC in order to calculate the aspect ratio. So I wrote a small utility to make it easier. It's called AspectGuide.

It's a semi transparent window that you place over your player window, and then resize it to cover the entire image, and it then displays the aspect ratio.


You can find out more about AspectGuide here.

Nice...and easy to use. Beats what I was using.

Yes, it is really great.  Thank you. 

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I checked out your homepage to see if you have a link set up for donations and I don't see one.

Glad you liked the program. No, I have no donations link, and the reason is twofold. For one thing I don't really need the money, a "thank you" is quite good enough. The other reason is that I feel that if one asks for money, one takes on a support responsibility. Not legally perhaps, but morally. More so if you actually set a price on the program, but even with donations, in my opinion.

That's not to say that I'm not willing to help users if there is a problem. But by not asking for money, that becomes 100% my decision. If I feel it's too hard, or too time consuming I can say "Sorry, I can't help you" without feeling that I have cheated anyone. Hopefully things will never come to that, but I just feel more comfortable sharing my work that way.