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| Registered: August 22, 2010 | | Posts: 3 |
| | Posted: | | | | I have a ton of DVD's that hae UPC codes that are 13 characters long with 9 in the first digit. DVD proflier is unable to recognize any of these UPC codes. All others with 0, 5, 6, 7, or 8 in the first digit for the most part were founf properly ...
Any suggestions?
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| Registered: April 3, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 1,998 |
| | Posted: | | | | Can you post an example
I have 5 DVDs that the Barcode begins with a 9 and they are all Australian |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 5,917 |
| | Posted: | | | | Unable to recognize or unable to find a profile? Can you search by title and find a profile in the same local with the UPC? | | | | Last edited: by Dr. Killpatient |
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| Registered: August 22, 2010 | | Posts: 3 |
| | Posted: | | | | Here are some examples: 9780738902760 9780738903729 9780738904085 9780738923352 9780738923642 9780738923796 9780738924328 9780767065757 9780767078863 9780767804219 9780767805766 9780767809337 9780767818117 9780767821476 9780767821629 9780767827638 9780767833981 9780767835107 9780767845700 9780767847407 9780767848824 9780767851145 9780767851367 9780767855877 9780767858465 9780767861441 9780767862134 9780767863285 9780767863728 Dr. K .... they return "Unknown Title [Please Click to Change] I believe this is for the "profile" .... btw. I have ASIN numbers for some of them that correctly find the title on Amazon, however, DVD Profiler does not support ASIN [that I've found] and Amazon does not return the UPC  cheers! |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 |  Posts: 2,337 |
| | Posted: | | | | There's nothing unusual with this situation. DVDP is a user built database and those profiles have not been contributed to database by anyone yet. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 2,217 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting sramsdell: Quote:
Here are some examples:
9780738902760
Those are "Bookland"-Numbers, ISBNs "disguised" as EANs. Are there no other UPCs/EANs on the Backcover? If not, you could try a search for the Disc-ID bei inserting the DVD into you computer. Or if all other fails .... "It's a user-built database" ... so, read the contribution rules, build a profile and submit it. cya, Mithi PS You can ease the workload by cloning an existing profile for the movie. | | | | Mithi's little XSLT tinkering - the power of XML --- DVD-Profiler Mini-Wiki |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,745 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting sramsdell: Quote:
Dr. K .... they return "Unknown Title [Please Click to Change]
I believe this is for the "profile" .... btw. I have ASIN numbers for some of them that correctly find the title on Amazon, however, DVD Profiler does not support ASIN [that I've found] and Amazon does not return the UPC The others are correct, UPCs starting with "978" are reserved for book companies. However, that does not make them invalid for DVDs. The problem is that the others are also correct in another regard. The DVD Profiler database is built by its own users. So every profile you do find in there is there because another user of this site put it there. So if you don't find one with your UPC, you will have to do the work yourself. I checked the first three of your UPCs with Google and they all seem to be concert DVDs which would also explain why not too many people will own them. Nothing against these people but such DVDs are "special interest" and aren't collected by that many people and hence it's understandable why there isn't a profile for them. But it also means that building a profile is not that complicated since there aren't any huge cast and crew lists to enter. Just add the UPC and when it asks you to enter a title because it didn't find one, enter it and you'll be fine. As for your ASIN problem, check out the ASIN to EAN Converter from the plugins section. | | | Karsten
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| Registered: August 22, 2010 | | Posts: 3 |
| | Posted: | | | | Thanks everyone ... I found a few ways to do this, but in the end it was fastest for the 400+ that I had to just either cut & paste or type in the beginin of the name ... almost all have a profile of some sort. It appears that "standards" is a loose term when it comes to cataloging programs ... there seems to be no easy way to convert between DVDP, Collectorz, DVDPedia, Readerware, etc. -- unfortunately all of these at any given time have featrue advantages over the others ... hopefully one day there wil be that "perfect" one  MAC and iOS support/syncing, plug-in support, online/user submitted database, auto cataloging to name a few ... cheers! |
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| Registered: September 18, 2008 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,650 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting DJ Doena: Quote:
The others are correct, UPCs starting with "978" are reserved for book companies. However, that does not make them invalid for DVDs. I never knew that.  Though... All the Australian releases I own start with 9. Warner Home Video in the UK generally start with 7. A lot of Buena Vista titles in UK start with 8. Do different countries have different UPC 'rules'? |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,005 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting samuelrichardscott: Quote:
Do different countries have different UPC 'rules'? UPC/EAN country codesI just noticed: I hold here a German Blu-ray release in my hand which seems to use a Netherland number. | | | 
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| Registered: September 18, 2008 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,650 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting samuelrichardscott: Quote:
Quoting DJ Doena:
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The others are correct, UPCs starting with "978" are reserved for book companies. However, that does not make them invalid for DVDs.
I never knew that.
Though...
All the Australian releases I own start with 9.
Warner Home Video in the UK generally start with 7.
A lot of Buena Vista titles in UK start with 8.
Do different countries have different UPC 'rules'? Doh. I see you mean 978 and not 9 or 7 or 8.  Thanks for that link Tom. |
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