User Interface
You can reach much all important functions through the main window:
In the middle are all the movies. Click once to select the movie and see it's cover.
Double-Click to play a movie (multi-part movies are automatically added to the VLC playlist).
You can search for a movie with the top-right searchbar.
You can filter movies either by meta data (list on the left side) or by the initial character (bottom bar).
Beside the movies you can see additional information. (If you have watched the movie (= the eye), the IMDB score, your own rating, etc)
###Movie preview
If you want ore information about a movie you can select "Preview" from the context menu
###Series preview
By double-clicking a series you will get an overview over all seasons and which episodes you have already watched.
With the button "Play next episode" ClipCorn will try to automatically find the next episode you need to watch and play it.
###Log view
In the main window in the bottom taskbar you can see the current log state.
A green check mark means everything is good. A yellow exclamation mark means there are warnings and an red "X" indicates an error.
By double clicking on the icon you can open the log view.
All the logs are also saved in an file named "jClipCorn.log"
If you encounter an error please open an issue on Github and provide me with your log-file.
###Searching and Filtering
You can search through all visible fields with the top-right search bar. Beside the title and file series you can also input a genre or a quality (but you have to write the whole genre name to search)
With the Letters below the table you can search for movies/series that start with a specific letter.
To show all entries either click on [All] beside the other letters or on All in the left filter list.
You can also filter the database by specific criteria with the left list. Just click on a specific quality, genre, rating, tag, language, film series, age rating, ...
###Custom filter
Warning:
This is a pretty complex feature, you should have a basic understanding on logic
Under the bullet point "Custom" in the filter side bar you can create complex custom filters.
When you open the "Custom" node you see all you saved permanent filters (on your first start there are none) and the entries "Organize filter ..." and "New temp. filter".
The first one allows you to create/update/delete your permanent filter (these are saved in the jClipCorn.flst file). The second is used to temporary filter your database.
After you click on "Organize filter ..." and then on "+" (Add) you will see an boolean AND filter.
In this filter you can add conditions and only if the movie/series satisfies all conditions it will be displayed.
One or more condition can also be other logical operators (this way you build your expression tree).
Included Operators are:
- AND: All conditions need to be met
- OR: At least one condition needs to be met
- NAND: At least one condition must be false
- NOR: All conditions must be false
Tip:
If you want a negation you can simply use the NOR operator with only a single argument
You can use the following conditions to filter your database:
FORMAT
FSK
GENRE
LANGUAGE
ONLINESCORE
QUALITY
SCORE
TAG
TITLE
TYP
VIEWED
YEAR
ZYKLUS
It is possible to export/import whole filter as simple string with the export import functions.
Here are a few example filters:
Best movies in database:
[0|[14|1],[3|[8|9,0,3],[10|3,6,2],[8|10,0,3]],[13|0]]
Needs better quality:
[0|[13|0],[3|[11|0],[0|[3|[10|5,0,3],[10|4,0,3]],[3|[9|0],[9|1]]]]]
Worst movies in database:
[0|[13|0],[3|[8|0,4,0],[3|[10|0,0,3],[10|1,0,3]]]]
Damaged movies:
[0|[3|[11|0],[11|1],[11|2],[11|4]],[13|0]]
Watch later:
[0|[14|0],[3|[8|7,0,1],[11|3]],[13|0]]
###Image Cropping
In all add/edit-dialogs (add-movie, add-series, add-season add-episode, ...) you can edit an cover with the [Crop] button. When you click it an dialog opens where you can crop the cover image and apply other transformations to it:
You can also see the ratio of the cropped image. jClipCorn looks best with covers that have an ratio of 0.72 width/height