verify DCP

[dvdgrdnr]

hi
i've just made my first DCP via DCP-o-Matic and want to test it. I see on the manual it says i can go to Tools > Verify DCP, but there's no option for this on mine. Has DCP-o-M removed this feature since the manual was made, or am i doing something wrong?
i'm using DCP o matic 2 on a macbook pro.

[carl]

At the moment this is only in the DCP-o-matic player... start that, load your DCP and you should see the option in Tools.

The player is a separate download for macOS.

[dvdgrdnr]

thanks - just tried that now. It all looks good!

[rl1983]

This looks like it's branched out into a seperate utility at least on the Windows install. Thanks Carl!

I do have a request for this new utility, could you add the ability to scan an entire directory? Say we have 20 DCPs in a directory, is there any way to have it scan the entire thing instead of picking one by one? That would help out big time when dealing with short film packages etc.

Thanks!!

[IoannisSyrogiannis]

There is an entry for that on mantis, already:
https://dcpomatic.com/mantis/view.php?id=2843

[lg.richard]

Now dom in windows has a nice feature just to check dcps. It would be even better if we could batch verify dcps

[IoannisSyrogiannis]

Well, it now does, if you haven't yet noticed.
A big thank you from my part!
I opened a folder where the subfolder was full of test patterns and I was rejoiced to find all of them populate the list automatically.
I had a bit of a hard time to remove half of them, I had to do it one by one, but no complaints here!
And then, when I exported the verification report, the CPL content title and UUID made everything crystal clear!

I had an issue opening a whole internal drive,

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An exception occured: boost::filesystem::directory_iterator::construct:
Access is denied [system:5]:
"D:\$RECY...\S-#-#-##-###########-##########-##########-1001"
(D:\$RECY...\S-#-#-##-###########-##########-##########-1001)
()

(Where #, read digits. Numbers, that is, not fingers.)

But I didn't have any issue opening a whole external drive.

Kudos, Carl and team!

[carl]

Glad you like it! 2.18.13 should be more robust when it sees directories it can't scan.

[IoannisSyrogiannis]

It's a great tool, if you have a whole drive of DCPs and other material to check out. Print traffic staff and projectionists would take good advantage of that, I am sure.
And I am glad that the --no-picture-details-check option is there on CLI as well.
I do have ideas, but I suppose it's best to ask for extras on Mantis, so things will be classified according to priority and feasibility.
I will probably go with "each thing on a separate proposal" for that reason.

[carl]

Perfect, yes Mantis is best for that, and 1 idea per ticket is definitely easiest.