My Movies 2.20 to Support Barcode Scanning

re: My Movies 2.20 to Support Barcode Scanning

Mike — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 01:21:39 GMT

very cool!

re: My Movies 2.20 to Support Barcode Scanning

chrisl — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:32:00 GMT

Perfect Brian, Now it works! Great application for a webcam I never use. :)

re: My Movies 2.20 to Support Barcode Scanning

Brian Binnerup — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 08:01:08 GMT

Chris, I found the problem.

Look at the UPC code you can in - it scan's as 13 numbers where the first two are "00" - an UPC code is normally only 12 numbers, but as it's a subset of EAN 13, a 13 number digit is then properly allowed with "00", as it then simly displays the UPC as an EAN13 code.

"My Movies" then looked up your title as was it an EAN 13 code, and due to the "00" number (which is not a known country code for EAN 13), the webservice failed and your client did not get a response.

I have now changed the webservice so that a UPC code shown as EAN 13 with "00" is handled as an UPC code instead of an EAN 13 code, and that means it should now work for you.

It looks up as "Mean Girls (Collector's Edition/ Pan & Scan/ Checkpoint)".

Thanks for reporting it in.

Regards,

Brian

re: My Movies 2.20 to Support Barcode Scanning

Brian Binnerup — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 20:47:29 GMT

Hi Chris,

You pretty fast I can see ;-)

Please give me a hint of what did not work with the webcam - I am writing a guide to it just now, as it isen't just click and go.

To be able to scan barcodes, you need a webcam with manual focus, so that you can turn it all the way in, and then lights have an influence too, depending on how good your webcam is to handle this.

Before the final 2.20 release, I will have support for the Macrovision Flic barcode scanner - that is a bit easier.

Regards,

Brian

re: My Movies 2.20 to Support Barcode Scanning

Brian Bain — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 17:41:45 GMT

Very cool software!