Main Functionality
DVD Chief creates an offline database of all the movies or TV shows you own (or want to own/watch). This database stores information about movies (title, cast, genre, crew, studios, MPAA rating, description, runtime, release date, countries released in, plus cover image and any other images you want to add) etc. Movies are organized within this database and you can easily find movies by searching, with the ability to search and find movies by pretty much any criteria you can think of: title, cast, genre, MPAA rating, IMDB rating, barcode, country, etc.).
You input movies into the database by either manually entering their names then having DVD Chief pull movie info from various different online movie database websites (including IMDB and Amazon), or having DVD Chief automatically pull movie info from a DVD, Blu-ray, video file, or ISO.
Take note DVD Chief does *not* rip movies or TV shows. It only catalogs them, i.e. stores information about them.
Pros
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Cons
[Windows] Organize and catalogue your movies (DVDs and Blu-rays) and TV shows with DVD Chief | Reviews, news, tips, and tricks | dotTech
DVD Chief creates an offline database of all the movies or TV shows you own (or want to own/watch). This database stores information about movies (title, cast, genre, crew, studios, MPAA rating, description, runtime, release date, countries released in, plus cover image and any other images you want to add) etc. Movies are organized within this database and you can easily find movies by searching, with the ability to search and find movies by pretty much any criteria you can think of: title, cast, genre, MPAA rating, IMDB rating, barcode, country, etc.).
You input movies into the database by either manually entering their names then having DVD Chief pull movie info from various different online movie database websites (including IMDB and Amazon), or having DVD Chief automatically pull movie info from a DVD, Blu-ray, video file, or ISO.
Take note DVD Chief does *not* rip movies or TV shows. It only catalogs them, i.e. stores information about them.
Pros
- Allows you to input movies manually or have DVD Chief automatically grab movie info from DVDs, Blu-rays, video files (all major video formats supported), or ISO images
- When inputting manually, all you have to do is input the movie name and DVD Chief then pulls the relevant movie data from an online database and stores it inside DVD Chief’s database, which is then available offline
- Supports IMDB, DVDEmpire, DVDList, Blu-ray.com, Amazon, Kinopoisk, TheTVdb, and TheMovieDB
- Movies can be pulled in batch from online databases and stored inside DVD Chief
- Works with TV shows, too
- Stores a significant amount of information about each movie/TV show: title, cast, genre, crew, studios, MPAA rating, description, runtime, release date, countries released in, plus cover image and any other images you want to add
- The database of movies/shows is highly searchable; you can search by over two dozen criteria, including but not limited to title, cast, rating, studio, and runtime
- Once you have a movie or TV show in the database, you can manually edit any of the information about it, if you like — including add images
- Allows you to mark movies/TV shows as seen, unseen, in collection, on wish list, on order, not in collection, for sale, or loaned to someone and filter by these criteria
- In addition to movies/TV shows, stores data about people related to movies (actors, directors, etc.)
- You can have multiple different databases
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Cons
- Not 100% bug free
- Laggy interface
- Semi-resource intensive (opens at roughly 75 MB of RAM and RAM usage only goes up as you use the program or increase database size)
[Windows] Organize and catalogue your movies (DVDs and Blu-rays) and TV shows with DVD Chief | Reviews, news, tips, and tricks | dotTech