Hi people , this post is all about a project which I started roughly a month ago by the name of “QFlicks”. It was named so because the graphics library I chose to use is the popular Ot and the application is a movie collection cataloger which scans the disk for media files and gets film informations (duration, plot, cover ,rating ,poster cover , casts etc) from the popular Amazon’s http://imdb.com or the Internet Movie Database . It also allows the user to filter his possessions based on movie titles,genre,ratings , seen or unseen etc.
The later versions of the software will witness subtitle downloader extention and many more.
Here are the basic features which I plan to inmplement in version 1.0
- Scanning user-chosen directories to find media files (films in a first time)
Status : Done
How : Used a recursive OS walk algorithm to extract movies from all folders , sub-folders , sub-sub folders etc.
- Extracting film titles from file names (tough one if files are not properly named)
Status: Done
How: Using Neural Network algorithms and and basic Regular Expression.
- Create a list of these names in a database get films information (duration, plot, poster cover , rating , casts etc) from imdb
Status : Done
How: Used a library named IMDBPy as imdb.com does not provide and API (Another example of Amazon’s miserness). The database used is MySQL which experienced developers feel is a wrong choice for desktop.
- display films list and information of the selected one
Status: Done
Status: More or less done until someone comes out with bugs
- Filtering based on genre , title ,rating seen or unseen etc.
Status: Not Done
To Do: Learn multiple substring search in SQL ( SQL sucks , I hate it)
Status : The Gui is simple but not clean and hangs as I have not implemented the Multi-threading
To Do : Learn Multi-threading and make the network call fuctions run in separate threads in the background and also need to implement customized Progress Bars for UI
Plugins (towards upper versions):
- subtitle downloader
- playlist manager
- automatic new files inclusion (directory survey)
- music album and video series handling
Tools Used:
- Python as the Programming Language
- Qt as Graphics Library
- QtDesigner for the Gui
- SVN as versioning program
- MySQL as database software
- IMDBPy as the library
- GPLv3 licence
Here is the screen-shot of my Work :
The sourceforge Link for the project is :
Get the source from the Repository :
Current OS Support :
Gnu/Linux with Qt >= 4.5 and MySQL >= 5.0
Newbies who don’t know how to use SVN or are facing problems with code can mail me at
mailto: abhii.cse.nitdgp@gmail.com
The project is likely to see its first release on 24th of August 2009
Abhishek Gupta 