Manage your movie collection with GCfilms [LWN.net]

GCfilms is a film management application that is hosted on the FSF France's Gna project repository.

GCfilms is an application that can be used to manage a movie collection. A user can stock all the movies he has with some associated informations (where it is located, movie category, already seen or not, a rating,...). Then one can retrieve some movies matching filtering criteria (specific values for movies information). This application has a plugin system to be able to find movies specific information (running time, actors, director,...) from Internet website. The user only enters the movie title and GCfilms automatically fill in these fields.

GCfilms features the following capabilities:

Maintains a catalog of the user's film collection.
Can search numerous Internet film archives to automatically acquire information about each film.
Records film title, date, cast, a poster image, and other details.
Can keep track of the media type, a personal rating, comments, storage location, and more.
Manages a list of film borrowers, can send email requesting return of the film.
Has a built-in search function for locating films in a collection.
Exports film information to CSV, HTML, SQL, .tar.gz and XML files.
Imports film information from GCfilms, CSV, the Ant Movie Catalog and DVD Profiler.

The documentation covers the capabilities of GCfilms in more detail, some screenshots show the software in action.

The installation instructions are simple and cover a number of popular Linux distributions and Windows. A test installation on Fedora Core 3 was refreshingly easy to perform. GCfilms is a cross-platform application that is written in Perl. Dependencies include Perl, Gtk2, and gtk2-perl.

Version 5.1 of GCfilms was released this week: "Since last version announced on this site, there have been many improvements. These include: Completed translations, More user feedback (to try to be compliant with Gnome HIG), Performances improvements, Automatic conversion for genres, New plugins, Bug fixes and other improvements." For those of you with an artistic bent, a logo contest is underway, submissions will be accepted until the end of August.

If you have a large collection of films that would benefit from some organization, GCfilms is the perfect application to use.

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Time for a standard format?

Posted Jun 23, 2005 8:41 UTC (Thu) by Wummel (subscriber, #7591) [Link]

It's a shame that there is no standard format for this kind of collection data. All my collections (music, movies, wine, etc.) are put into Tellico. So if another program cannot import those collections flawlessly I will not switch. A standard format would help in this regard.