DaVideo Cataloger

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Five-level organization

Separate catalog identity from physical storage.

  • Master Site → Site → Subsite → Section → Subsection.
  • Searchable route selectors with context for shared names.
  • Tree navigation, child/video counts and associated previews.
  • Create, rename and manage catalog entities.
  • Move a placement or add another where the rules allow.
  • Change roles between adjacent levels and move valid branches.
  • Review hierarchy proposals detected from folder routes.

Shared relationships follow catalog rules; not every node can have unlimited parents.

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Unknown performers, identified later

Keep useful evidence before you know the name.

  • Register provisional appearances linked to the exact video.
  • Assign a face from a local image, existing capture or new frame.
  • Add contextual notes to an unknown participant.
  • Browse the global unknown-appearance section in cards or grid.
  • Open the video card offline; play when the file is accessible.
  • Compare, group, separate and identify appearances manually.
  • Resolve a single appearance or an entire reviewed group.
  • Preserve photos and note origins when assigning the official profile.
  • Keep existing participants and update confirmed relationships.

User-confirmed visual reconciliation, not claimed automatic facial recognition.

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Profiles, aliases and galleries

A person is more than a filename token.

  • Create and edit official performer profiles.
  • Keep aliases and internal identifiers for namesakes.
  • Record nationality, birth date, gender, activity and profile fields.
  • Filter by photo, gallery, associated videos, state and gender.
  • Select, crop and position the main face image.
  • Protect the chosen face from web-script replacement.
  • Browse local photos and captures from associated videos.
  • Optional profile/photo enrichment with resumable batch processing.

Web enrichment needs the relevant scripts, Python environment and accessible external sources.

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Catalog maintenance and smart renaming

Review proposed changes and resolve uncertainty.

  • Analyze current catalog records and naming proposals.
  • Review missing classification, pending tags and conflicts.
  • Edit one video or a selected batch.
  • Resolve ambiguous performer identities explicitly.
  • Rename manually or change only the title outside the prefix.
  • Use complete five-level routes in structured names.
  • Configure component order and capitalization with preview.
  • Apply online, plan offline and review persistent pending operations.
  • Consult rename history and operational diagnostics.

Changing format preferences does not by itself rename every existing file.

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Multiple drives and physical organization

Know where a file is, even when its disk is away.

  • Register drives and select full-disk or folder scanning.
  • Browse online/offline volumes and their folder trees.
  • Create, rename or move physical folders through explicit actions.
  • Move one or several videos to an available destination.
  • Validate space and conflicts; omit or add a suffix.
  • Keep catalog identities and associated resources after supported moves.
  • Conservatively reconcile externally moved files during scanning.
  • Distinguish removal from catalog from physical deletion.

Physical playback, movement and deletion require access to the file.

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Integrated player and visual capture

Watch, classify and choose images in one workflow.

  • LibVLC-based playback with fullscreen, speed and volume controls.
  • Video information, related identities and classification alongside playback.
  • Open cards, edit relationships and rate videos while reviewing.
  • Fine navigation while paused and keyboard shortcuts.
  • Capture a chosen frame and use it as a performer face.
  • Main thumbnail selection and configurable additional frames.
  • Automatic visual checks and alternative capture positions.
  • Multiple captures and batch capture for marked videos.

Capture generation needs FFmpeg/FFprobe; precise behavior varies with video accessibility and decoding.

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Notes with identity and source context

Preserve what you discovered without mixing its scope.

  • Video-specific observations.
  • Notes about a confirmed participant in that video.
  • Notes about still-unknown appearances.
  • General performer notes without requiring a source video.
  • Search, edit, order and manage notes from profile or video context.
  • Keep source context when provisional identities are resolved.
  • Open the originating video by exact ID when available.
  • Find general profile notes through currently related videos.

A general profile note and a video-origin note have different search and badge behavior.

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Tags, categories and source catalogs

Reusable classification, with rules you can review.

  • Manual tags and automatic assignments with recorded origin.
  • Keyword detection in the title outside the structured prefix.
  • Participant-count rules with ranges and priorities.
  • Activate, deactivate and recalculate rules and keywords.
  • Multiple categories and a main category for each video.
  • Origins, domain variants, aliases and detection priorities.
  • Optional cleanup of detected origin marks in new names.
  • Configurable source-search URLs and explicit web search.

Acquisition origin and five-level content hierarchy are separate concepts.

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Duplicates with evidence

Compare candidates before deciding what to remove.

  • Confirmed groups based on stored SHA-256 hashes.
  • Optional probable matches by available technical metadata.
  • Compare location, classification, size, duration and resolution.
  • Play accessible candidates for manual review.
  • Calculate pending hashes by available drive.
  • Ignore selected matches.
  • Plan, revert and review offline deletion requests.

This is not a claim of perceptual matching across every recoded or edited version.

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Excel exchange and local data portability

Move catalog knowledge as well as files.

  • Create an empty Excel catalog template.
  • Export five-level hierarchy and performer profile fields.
  • Validate sheets, headers and content before import.
  • Preview new entries and updates.
  • Merge into a clean installation with new local IDs.
  • Do not delete entries merely because an Excel row is absent.
  • Select existing local Data or copy Data to another location.

Excel exchanges defined catalogs, while copying Data serves a different migration/backup purpose.

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Preferences, licensing and release readiness

Know what is local, configurable and dependent on services.

  • Spanish and English interface resources.
  • Gallery layout, page size and initial-view preferences.
  • Main thumbnail timing, capture count and default image.
  • Python-environment diagnostics and repair controls.
  • Licensing client with activation, validation and device deactivation.
  • Trial/expired visual restrictions implemented in the current base.
  • Version and technical information for support.

The final package, service availability, requirements and commercial terms still need release validation.

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