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How to enter Blu-ray child profiles?
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorAssassin
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I want to contribute the new Blu-ray Spider-Man Trilogy Box Set, but I've no idea how to do it. Since it is a digipak, there is only one UPC used by the box. As I don't have a Blu-ray drive in my PC for the disc ids (are there any at all on blu-rays?), how can I enter the child profiles?
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Unfortunately we can't at the moment.
It would be nice if Ken could allow us to type an HD disc ID in manually, at least until disc recognition is included in the program, but at the moment the best we can do is either use the UPC of an individual release (if there is one) or create a manual profile (which can't be contributed).
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Just our of interest, where you do find the disc id then? I thought its generated by reading the disc and therefore can't easily be manually done. Unless you happen to have the source code to the windows function that does it and can then do it.

Even when dvdprofiler supports generating HD/BR disc id's, its going to be an issue for most folks as not many people will have a HD/BR drive on their pc.

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I have to admit, I can't remember which programs I used, but I have the xbox hd dvd drive and if I look in one program I get the unfriendly disc ID (the: I43HD374 sort of thing) and in another program I got the more user-friendly name (KING_KONG or similar).
I don't know about blu-ray discs but I thought they would be similar.
If people are interested I'll do some investigating as to which programs they were.
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What about making up an UPC for the contribution and change it then when there is a solution?
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That's specifically against the rules and will only lead to confusion and mess. Gotta be patient for the time being.
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What about making up an UPC for the contribution and change it then when there is a solution?


That would have to be cleared through Ken and that I believe would be a dangerous road.

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Even if you had a blu-ray drive, DVD Profiler throws an error when trying to read the Blu-ray Disc ID.  I was able to pull back what used to be the old disc id prior to DVDP 3.0.  DVDP 3.0 calls a function within MS's DirectX DVDNavigator object.  I've asked Ken about this and he won't be able to troubleshoot the issue until he purchases a blu-ray drive.

As an fyi, here's a screenshot of the error message:

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I want to contribute the new Blu-ray Spider-Man Trilogy Box Set, but I've no idea how to do it.


Same problem with the same set. The Spider-Man 3 blu-ray is avaliable as a separate disc set, so that will have a UPC (but not on the one in the boxed set), so you could go to your local store and get it from that. But that doesn't solve the problem with 1 and 2.

I made up profiles for them, but without a disc id or UPC you can't submit them.
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This would have to be approved by Ken, but taking a look at 3 random Blu-ray discs that a friend of mine owns, it looks like the Disc ID might be inscribed in the inner ring on the data side of the disc. I looked at his Kingdom of Heaven, Deja Vu and Kung Fu Hustle discs and they had IDs inscribe in the ring that either started with BvSS- (I assume for single layer) or BVDL- (I assume for Dual Layer) and an 8 digit alpha numerical (123456A7) code. The BVDL- discs had 2 IDs one for each layer it looks like (123456A7 and 123456B7).
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I've asked Ken about this and he won't be able to troubleshoot the issue until he purchases a blu-ray drive.


OK, lets collect some bucks and buy Ken a BD drive
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Odds are microsoft have written the idvdinfo stuff not to work with Blu-Ray 

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Odds are microsoft have written the idvdinfo stuff not to work with Blu-Ray 


Apparently, Ken also does some checks on the discs to make sure it is actually a DVD.  This may simply be a code fix for DVDP.
DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile RegistrantStar Contributorajm
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In which case, it wouldn't be difficult for Ken to fix, without a blu-ray drive, if someone who had one was able to run some test code for him. It would only need some code snippets and maybe some directory listings I'm sure.

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I'd be happy to run any HD-DVD tests if needed. Don't have bluray though.
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My proposal would be an option for custimized UPCs in one of the future DVDP versions. For example when the Box UPC is 4030521710849, we add letters at the end, e.g. disc one would be 4030521710849-a, disc two 4030521710849-b etc.
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