Indexing, Hashing, Purging"-window and execute the 
Scenerixx Wizard.For the very impatient among us, here is the most brief overview you can get:
Indexing, Hashing, Purging"-window and execute the Scenerixx Wizard.For the impatient among us, here a very brief overview of what your first steps should be:
Indexing, Hashing, Purging"-window where you index and hash the folders you want to. If you have MediaInfo already installed, update also the media information by clicking the button.
Movies"-window, right-click on the root-node and add a new movie.
MediumFiles"-window, search for the files that belongs to the newly created movie, select them and drag & drop them on the movie in the movie-window. After dropping the files the "
Details"-window automatically opens.
Person Details"-window and create all necessary persons. If you want to associate a picture to the person drag&drop a picture file from the " MediumFiles"-window to a person in the "
Persons"-window. (You might need to move one of the windows by clicking on their tab and drag it somewhere else so that you can see both windows at the same time). Persons"-window and drag&drop the persons to the corresponding scenes. (You can select multiple persons if you press CTRL while clicking).
) in the " Movies"-window and fill out the details in the " Details"-window. Save and repeat for the other scenes. Details"-window. Save and repeat.
Studios"-window and fill out the data in the "
Studio Details"-window) which you assign in the " Details"-window after selecting a movie.
Search"-window Movies"-window and click the "Open"-button.
), password protect your application in the options or secure single items which are only visible after unlocking.
1.) Make sure you have at least Java 17 or newer installed.
If you are not sure if you have the correct version installed, open a console window and type:
java -version
If Java is installed something like this should be printed on the screen:
openjdk version "17.0.6" 2023-01-17
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 17.0.6+10-Ubuntu-0ubuntu120.04.1)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 17.0.6+10-Ubuntu-0ubuntu120.04.1, mixed mode, sharing)
If the command is not found or the version is below 17.0.0 you need the Adoptium OpenJDK or
Oracles JRE.
2.) After you verified that Java is installed on your computer you need to
extract the archive to a directory of your choice and start Scenerixx with the
executable that you can find the "bin" directory.
Scenerixx is based on the NetBeans platform and therefore needs at least Java 17 or newer to run.
Download it from Oracle or the open source variant OpenJDK.
It depends heavily on three other open source programs: VLC, MediaInfo and FFmpeg. You can use Scenerixx without them but with a lot of restrictions.
If you run Scenerixx on Windows you are asked if you want to download those programs if they are not found.
VLC is used as the player to open your video files. Since a lot of features (like bookmarks) use VLC specific command line parameters it's not possible to choose another player as the default player.
You can download it from http://www.videolan.org/vlc/.
MediaInfo is used to determine video length and resolution.
You can download it from https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo.
IMPORTANT: You must download the CLI version and NOT the GUI one.
FFmpeg is used to create screencaps from your videos.
You can download it from https://www.ffmpeg.org/.
Scenerixx stores all data in an embedded HSQLDB database. If you have no clue what that means or you don't care, you don't have to do anything.
If you want you can also let Scenerixx store the data in a MySql (or MariaDB) database. For that you have to create a property-file with the name
{user.directory}/scenerixx/mysql.conf
and create the database with this SQL-statement:
CREATE DATABASE `scenerixx` /*!40100 COLLATE 'utf8_unicode_ci' */;
The tables will be created with the first start of Scenerixx.
An example mysql.conf would look like this (starting with version >3.5.0):
jakarta.persistence.jdbc.driver=com.mysql.cj.jdbc.Driver jakarta.persistence.jdbc.user=user jakarta.persistence.jdbc.password=password jakarta.persistence.jdbc.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/scenerixx?zeroDateTimeBehavior=convertToNull&characterEncoding=UTF8&useSSL=false
javax.persistence.jdbc.driver=com.mysql.cj.jdbc.Driver javax.persistence.jdbc.user=user javax.persistence.jdbc.password=password javax.persistence.jdbc.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/scenerixx?zeroDateTimeBehavior=convertToNull&characterEncoding=UTF8&useSSL=falseChange the values accordingly.
Some things you should have heard once and do not fit somewhere else:
If you haven't read the quickstart yet, do it now. Or, if you are a thorough person, keep on reading to explore the full potential of Scenerixx.
The tree contains your movies and can have nodes up to four levels deep:
Root
├─ Movie
| ├─ Scene
| | ├─ Bookmark
| | | ├─ Subbookmark
| | | ├─ Subbookmark
| | ├─ Bookmark
| | ├─ Bookmark
| ├─ Scene
├─ Movie
You can open several items at once by pressing CTRL+Enter.
With a double-click you can open scenes and bookmarks (looped). A double-click on a movie expands the node.
You can reduce the results in the tree by providing a searchterm in the searchbox above the tree which needs to be included in the movie title. With CTRL+Space you can trigger a auto completer to show you previous search terms (needs at least two characters).
Bookmarks can be re-ordered via drag&drop.
Scenes can be re-ordered via drag&drop.
If you cannot decide for yourself: there are two buttons to randomly select a node (CTRL+R) or to randomly open a scene (ALT+R).
To associate a mediumfile to a movie switch to the " MediumFiles"-window, search for the files that you want to associate,
select them and drag & drop them on the movie in the movie-window. You can select more than one file if you hold CTRL while clicking on the file.
If more than one file is dropped to the movie, Scenerixx will use the same order in which you selected the file.
E.g.: you have the files a, b and c. You click first on b, then a, then c and drop them on a movie. Scenerixx will open the files in the order b, a, c.
Have a look at the FAQ how to fix wrongly ordered files.
After dropping the files the " Details"-window automatically opens..
To associate a person to a scene switch to the " Persons"-window and drag&drop the persons to the corresponding scene. You can select multiple persons if you press CTRL while clicking.
If more than one person is dropped Scenerixx will sort them alphabetically, first the females, then the males.
You can narrow down the list by using the search field. Fields that are considered for the search:
If you want to exclude a search term prefix it with two dashes (--).
If your search term(s) contains spaces you can escape them with quotes.
Let's assume we have a movie with the title "Tori-Black.mp4".
Consider now following search term: Tori Black
This would find the movie title because the search don't care where a search term is found.
Would we search for: "Tori Black"
the search would not come up with the title because the search term cannot be found exactly in the movie title.
Sometimes you have an ID of a movie / scene / bookmark that you want to open directly.
You can do this if search for the ID with a prefixed hashtag:
the movie is not associated to any file yet
the movie is associated to a DVD
the movie is associated to a ISO-file the movie is associated to a file
a single scene
a PMV
a compilation
a cumpilation
the scene is cutted and not the whole scene. It is just a summary
a snippet where the runtime is only a few seconds or minutes
a movie in 3D which requires red/blue glasses
an interactive movie
a VR movie which requires a VR headset
a tube movie, no matter if a mediumfile is associated or not the scene is a normal scene
the scene is a bonus-scene
the scene is a "Behind the scenes"-scene
the bookmark is a normal bookmark
the bookmark is a subbookmark
the (sub)bookmark is marked as a favourite
the (sub)bookmark is marked as a highlight Medium Files"-window to the movie node.
Medium Files"-window to the movie node.
Medium Files"-window to the scene node.
Persons"-window to the scene node.
The term studio is here broadly defined and includes beside studios websites if they provide original content.
If you select a studio in the tree, details to this studio will be automatically loaded in the " Studio Details"-window.
You can merge studios via drag & drop.
Shows all persons that are available in the database. After the very first start only a few placeholder persons are available (and which also cannot be deleted).
Following colors are used to distinguish persons:
Each node is a person. Sub-nodes are the scenes this persons appears in. If you click on a scene the corresponding movie will be selected in the movie-window. Behind the person name the number of appearances is displayed in square brackets.
You can associate a person to a scene by dragging&dropping a person to a scene in the "Movies "-window.
You can merge persons via drag & drop.
Opens all movies from the selected persons. As an alternative press CTRL+Enter.
Opens all movies from the selected persons and play them in a random order. Shortcut is ALT+R.
Create a playlist with all movies from all selected persons.
/
"-window and displays all files that includes the name of this person in its filename. This comes in
handy if you just started using Scenerixx and haven't associated persons to movies yet. Of course that requires that your filenames are at least
a bit sorted ;)
You can narrow down the available persons in the tree by providing some search terms in the search input field. A person have to match only one of the search terms.
For example: if you type in "ash gianna james" the tree might be narrowed down to: "James Deen", "Gianna Michaels", "Ashlynn Brooke" and "Sasha Grey".
You can also comma separate terms where each search term group has to be included in the name, e.g.: "paul james ford" would normally result in something like
"Paulina James, Alan Stafford, James Deen, Alexis Ford, Brenda James"
Using a comma ("paul james, ford") would result in:
"Paulina James, Alan Stafford, Alexis Ford"
Instead of a comma you can also use an ampersand (&) as a delimiter.
This comes handy if you are searching for several people and want to reduce noise in the search result.
With CTRL+Space you can trigger a auto completer to show you previous search terms (needs at least two characters).
for females and 
for males.
The details window let's you edit movies, scenes and bookmarks. The form is context sensitive and might vary depending on the selected entity.
Pictures can be dragged&dropped from the "Medium Files"-window to movies, scenes and bookmarks. If a picture is associated to an entity it will be displayed
at the top of the form. If more than one picture is associated to an entity you can cycle the pictures by clicking on it.
You can configure if covers should be shown in the options.
If you want to change the order the pictures are displayed have a look at the FAQ.
New movies always will have the name "[New Movie]". As soon as you added some medium files to the newly created movie Scenerixx automatically fills the title
field with the filename of the first added file.
You can (and should) change the title. A few notes on how I imagine how the title should look like:
If the selected entity is a scene the title cannot be changed and will be assembled in the following form: Scene [x] of movie [movie title] - [persons in the scene]
If the selected entity is a bookmark you can leave the title empty or provide an optional description. If a description is provided it will be shown for bookmarks nodes next to the bookmarktype.
A flag to mark a movie as a favorite. Makes it easier to find your favorites later on without using any playlists.
A flag to mark a bookmark as a highlight.
Even though every bookmark can be marked as a highlight it is more meant for "custom"-type bookmarks
which again are meant to be sub-bookmarks of a specific bookmark.
It is meant for little personal highlights like for example a facial expression, a moaning or an eye-rolling.
Scene (00:00 - 32:18)
|-> Bookmark Cowgirl (23:04 - 25:39)
|-> Bookmark Custom (24:19 - 24:21) <- this is the highlight bookmark
Bookmarks that are marked as a highlight are represented in the tree with a diamond ().
Do you know those scenes that makes you on the on hand feel ashamed and on the other hand you really enjoy them? This is the right flag for those.
If you select this checkbox two new textfields will be shown:
The URL can be any website that you want. If you later open a tube movie, Scenerixx will just opens this URL in an external browser. You can laster associate a medium file to a tube movie in which case Scenerixx would open the local medium file.
The title can be the title that is used on the website. For some tube sites Scenerixx will already parse the title on its own after the "Tube-url"-textfield lost its focus. The title is saved separately because sometimes the titles are so ridiculously long that they won't fit into filename.
In some cases a "Download" button is shown next to the "Save" button. In this case Scenerixx knows how to download the video from the tube site and saves them under "${user}/scenerixxdownloads" or the directory that you specified in the options. After the download is finished Scenerixx will add the file to the index, hash it and associates it with the movie. Scenerixx would now start the local file instead of opening a browser.
IMPORTANT: if you are opening later a scene or a bookmark it is not guaranteed that they will get opened at the right position. Scenerixx can pass the parameter for the timestamp to a chosen few tube sites but not to all. In this case Scenerixx would just open the tube site and the movie would start from the beginning.
[Only available for scenes] If the selected scene is a bonus scene.
[Only available for scenes] If the selected scene is a "Behind the scenes"-scene.
[Only available for movies] If you are into asians you know the dilemma: they shoot some of the kinkiest stuff and then they are censoring it.
[Only available for movies] Some programmers are working on algorithms to decensore censored movies. And it works better than expected.
[Only available for movies] Video is vertical and thus maybe better suited on a mobile phone.
[Only available for movies] Video is mirrored.
[Only available for movies and bookmarks] See the FAQ: What are secrets?
You can provide a public description here which would be included in an export file. For movie entities this should include the text of the cover (or website) if it's available.
Here you can leave a private comment. A private description will not be included in an export file.
Your personal rating for this entity. I personally use a scale from 1 to 10. 1 would equals "why the fuck do I have this, absolutely not my type, rather disgusting" and a 10 would be "top-notch". In case for exceptionally good material I introduced also a 11 (=exceptionally top-notch) and 12 (=perfect). But that's up to you.
While the rating is an overall rating for the scene, the value for immersion rates the scene by how good you can immerse into it. I have seen scenes which were really great to watch (high rating) but I couldn't really dive into it. And vice versa.
[Only available for scenes] If you are watching from time to time with your partner together you can rate each scene regarding the compatibility with your partner.
[Only available for bookmarks] To whom does this bookmark apply to? Useful for scenes with more then one female. E.g. in a threesome scene where one woman does anal (person a) and one (person b) does not. If you would now search for scenes of person b where she does anal Scenerixx' search couldn't determine the result exactly if the primary person is not provided.
[Only available for movies] The studio (or website) who released the movie.
Each entity can be tagged with a type to specify what kind this movie / scene / bookmark is to find later exactly what you are looking for.
While you can provide up to three types for movies and scenes
(which are quite generic), bookmarks can have only one type (which is quite specific). The movie-window allows you to order movies by type
(considering only types that have been applied on a movie entity).
[Only available for scenes and bookmarks] Specifies the position within the movie and is used to display the entity in the correct order. Scenes can be re-arranged in the "movie"-window via drag&drop.
The start- and endtime of a movie / scene / bookmark. Scenerixx tries to guess the correct medium file when you are entering a time (to be more specific:
as soon as you leave the minute-inputfield).
For example: you enter the beginning of the first scene which starts at 00:01:23, Scenerixx will automatically choose the first associated medium file. If you
are now entering the endtime and the endtime is behind the starttime, Scenerixx will select the the same medium file. If it is *before* the starttime Scenerixx
assumes that it ends in the next file and selects therefore the following file. That will only work, if you start with the very first scene because Scenerixx
depends on the data of the previous scene.
If you select directly an end-medium the endtime will be filled with the length of the file (if this value is known either because mediainfo determined the length
or you provided it manually).
This works quite well but you should still check if Scenerixx determined the correct value.
There are some cases where Scenerixx cannot determine a value (especially with bookmarks or if a scene starts at 00:00:00 in a file which is not the first)
and will do therefore nothing. In those cases you need to select the correct file on your own.
You can navigate through the textfields with the cursor keys (left/right to skip to the previous/next one, up/down to change the value). The value of the textfield
that has the focus can also be changed with the mousewheel.
This applies only to DVDs where you have titles and chapters and not medium files.
[Only available for movies and scenes] The date of shoot / production. If you provide the date when a movie node is selected Scenerixx
will ask you if this date should also be applied to all the scenes.
Each scene can have a different date in a movie (think about compilations). The date is used to calculate the age of the persons in the scene.
[Only available for movies] The main language which is spoken in this movie. You can specify the spoken language for each person in the person details.
Available values:
There was a time where movies were synchronized. Those days are long gone (fortunately), but in case you still have some historic movies in your collection, this flag is for you.
[Only available for movies] See the FAQ.
[Only available for movies and scenes]
Describes the quality of the video and sound.
If you apply a quality value on the movie entity it will be saved for all associated scenes if either none of the scenes
has a value yet or they all have the same value. If the value differs between the scenes, you cannot choose a value for the movie-entity. Possible values are:
[Only available for scenes] You can choose up to three locations where the scene takes place.
[Only available for scenes] If condoms are used in this scene or not.
Saves all the changes. But you know that, or? You can also use the shortcut CTRL+S to save the details. If you are saving the details of a scene, the next scene will be selected after saving.
[Only available for scenes and bookmarks] Facebook has a Like-button, Scenerixx has an "I came"-button.
[Only available for movies and scenes] Shows the available scenes within this movie. You can select a scene here.
[Only available for scenes] Shows the associated persons to this scene. As soon as you select a person Scenerixx will show the person details tab where you specify more detailed information about this person within the scene.
[Only available for scenes] If you added bookmarks to your scene those will be visualized in a Gantt chart.
Like this you can see right away how much time a certain bookmark type has within the scene and / or on whom the focus is if there is more than one person involved.
If the person was credited with a different name as usually, provide it here.
If the persons face is pixelated.
If the person appears as cuckold / cuckquean. Persons who have this flag set will appear in a different color in the trees.
If the person appears in a scene only in a non-sex role. Persons who have this flag set will appear in a different color in the trees.
If the birth year of the person is known and the year of production of the scene Scenerixx automatically calculates the age of the performer
and display it in the scene node.
In case those information are missing but you are able to retrieve the age in a different way (e.g. movie title or interview before the scene)
you can provide the mentioned age here. And since I know that some performers are 27 for several years in a row the age in the scene node is prefixed
with a "m: ".
If the birth year of the person is known and the year of production of the scene Scenerixx automatically calculates the age of the performer
and display it in the scene node.
In case those information are missing but you want to take an educated guess you can provide here an age range that will also be displayed in the scene node.
[Only available for females] This property is pre-selected from the person data (if available) and can be changed for this specific scene. This can be useful in case the actress changed (e.g. gaining so much weight that she's not considered a babe anymore rather a BBW, like Carmella Bing after her pregnancy for example).
[Only available for females] This property is pre-selected from the person data (if available) and can be changed for this specific scene. This can be useful in case the actress got a boob job in the meanwhile (or the scene is from the early days of her career where she started with natural tits).
[Only available for females] This property is pre-selected from the person data (if available) and can be changed for this specific scene.
[Only available for females] This property is pre-selected from the person data (if available) and can be changed for this specific scene. This can be useful in case the actress got a boob job or her appearance changed due to weight loss / gain.
[Only available for females] This property is pre-selected from the person data (if available) and can be changed for this specific scene. This can be useful in case the actress lost/gained weight and appears different than usually.
The length of the pubic hair. Possible values are:
The length of the (head) hair. Possible values are:
If you need some visualization help, look for example here.
The hair color. In case the default value is "colored" you should overwrite the hair color on each scene. If it's artificial, you can provide further information in the "public description".
The style of the hair. Possible values are:
The type of the hair. Possible values are:
The amount of makeup the person is wearing. Possible values are:
Were the nails made?. Possible values are:
The amount of dirty talk. Possible values are:
Only available when there is some dirty talk in this scene. Possible values are:
Is the person dominating its partner or is it dominated by it? Possible values are:
How much is the person disgusted? Possible values are:
How much does the person enjoys? Possible values are:
What kind of appearance does the person have? Possible values are:
The language the person is speaking. Useful if it differs from the general language that is spoken in the movie.
The amount of moaning. Possible values are:
The amount of screaming. Possible values are:
[Only available for females] How much do the tits bounce? Possible values are:
You can select here what kind of clothes the person is wearing. You can select several values just by clicking on a value. No need to hold the CTRL-key.
E.g. A person can wear lingerie under a business dress and gets during the scene completely rid of the clothes. In this case all three values (Lingerie, Business dress,
Naked (fully) would apply).
NOTE: If you are missing a value here, drop me a line.
You can select here what kind of jewelry the person is wearing. You can select several values just by clicking on a value. No need to hold the CTRL-key.
NOTE: If you are missing a value here, drop me a line.
This tab is only available if a bookmark of the any type of cumshot is selected.
Your personal rating.
How much jizz? Available values:
In which position is the cumshot received? Available values which should be self-explanaining:
How disgusted does the receiver looks like? Available values:
How much does the receiver enjoys the load? Available values:
If the receiver swallows the cum or not.
If receiver takes the dick after the cumshot back into her mouth to clean it up.
If a screencap exists for the selected movie, it will be shown here. Scenerixx searches for screencaps in the directory which is defined in the options.
If no screencap exists yet, you can create it by clicking the button "Generate Screencap". With a double click on one of the pictures you can open VLC at this position.
If the option "Hide screencaps in locked mode" is activated you will see an empty tab if you are in locked mode.
NOTE: For generating a screencap FFmpeg must be installed. Also consider that the generation of a screencap with FFmpeg will occupy
at least one CPU core for 100% for several minutes for each file (sometimes much more).
You can search the index in this window.
Shows all files in the index. If a selected file is associated to a movie the movie will be also selected in the movie-window.
With a double-click you can open a medium file (looped).
(movie) file is associated to a movie
file is a picture
file is a movie
file type is neither recognized as a picture nor as a movieOpen File - Opens the selected file. If the movie is split over several files and have a common pattern in its filename use the "Start VLC"-button
Open File (looped) - Opens the selected file in a loop.
Add To Default Playlist [Playlistname] - Adds the file to the current default playlist. If no default playlist exists Scenerixx will create one
Add To Playlist - Adds the file to the playlist that you select.
Open Directory - Opens the directory in the system file browser
Make mediumfile secret - Set the secret flag on this file so that it will be find only in an unlocked session
Rename file on disc - Renames the file on disc and updates the index
Rename file extension on disc - Renames the file extension on disc and updates the index
Hash file / Re-hash file - (Re-)Hashes a file
Update media information - Update the media information with MediaInfo of this file
Delete from database - Deletes the file from the index
Delete from disc - Deletes the file from the index and from the disc. This cannot be undone!
Searches the index for the provided searchterms. Not only filenames but also the corresponding paths will be searched. All searchterms must be found within path and/or name.
If a search term should NOT be included prefix it with two dashes, e.g: "Julia Ann --lesbian" will find all files with "Julia Ann" included in the file names but none that will include "lesbian".
If you want to search for an exact phrase use quotes. If you search for "Avi Love" without quotes each file with the extension *.avi and the term "love" in the file name would be found. With quotes only files with the exact phrase will be found.
With CTRL+Space you can trigger a auto completer to show you previous search terms (needs at least two characters).
Changes to any of the fields needs to be confirmed by clicking the "Save" button.
The width of the movie
The height of the movie
The duration of the movie
If the movie is split over several files this one indicates which part of the movie this file represents. Scenerixx will usually open a movie with all parts ordered by this property.
Your personal rating.
The export level. Do NOT mess around with this if you want import/export to work properly.
You can provide a value for Audio Desync here. Usually you won't need this.
Defines which kind of files should be shown in the result tree. Only pictures, movies or all files
Do not hide any files - Don't hide anything
Hide files that are associated to a movie - Applies only to movie files
Hide files where duration is already known (or file type has no duration) - helps you to find the movie files where MediaInfo was not able to determine the duration
Hide files where hash is already calculated
Ordering by name - default
Ordering by runtime - only useful for movies
Ordering by resolution - only useful for movies
Ordering by last modification - comes in handy when you search for one of the last added medium files
Show duplicates by name - useful if you are searching for files that might duplicates because some files might be broken, aborted downloads or a movie in a different resolution
Show duplicates by hash - useful if you are searching for duplicates of a file in other directories or same files with other filename
Shows behind each node how often the file was started. NOTE: This option might slow things down
Shows also the directory of the file. NOTE: The ordering is still done by the filename.
If the selected file is part of a movie which is split over several files and contains the string "CD1" in its filename, Scenerixx tries to find
the other parts and open them too. The other parts must have the same name (except the number). E.g. If a movie is split into two files "movie - cd1.mpg"
and "movie - cd2.mpg", Scenerixx opens them both.
If you select more then one file and all files are movies, all movies are opened (queued) within VLC.
If the file type is not known or more then one file is selected and not all selected files are movies, only the first selected
file will be opened with the associated standard application.
You can create movies in three different ways from your medium files.
Creates a movie from one or more mediumfiles. You'll be asked (optionally) to provide the amount of scenes which should be created.
If you click "cancel" in this dialog no scenes will be create but the movie itself will be created.
The mediumfiles will be added in the same order to the new movie you selected them.
The movie name will *not* be set and needs to be provided manually.
Creates for every selected node a movie with one scene.
The filename will be used as the movie name. Scenerixx will ask you if you want to use a prefix for the movie name.
This can be helpful if you selected only scenes from e.g. Lisa Ann and every movie title should start with "[Lisa Ann]".
If you don't want to provide a prefix just click "ok". If you click "cancel" no single scene movie will be created.
Creates for every selected node a movie without any scenes. Scenes needs to be added later manually.
The filename will be used as the movie name.
This window becomes really useful after you provided a lot of data to a lot of movies.
You can either search for scenes or bookmarks. If you are searching for bookmarks do NOT select any 'No'-option. Only bookmarks which matches any given 'Yes'-option will
be included in the search result.
NOTE: Since Scenerixx 2.0.0 you can also search for persons. So you could for example specify: search all blondes between 30 and 40 that performs in lesbian scenes.
If you are searching for scenes you can let Scenerixx also consider tags (words prefixed by a hash (#)) in filenames. Imagine you have two movies with the following filenames in your collection (without any manually added types):
If you now search for scenes of the type MILF and have the checkbox "tags" selected the movie "Older but better - #MILF.avi" is found by Scenerixx. "Another MILF movie #older.avi" won't be found because it does not contain any (matching) tag. This logic does not apply when searching for bookmarks!
Be aware that the search for tags within filenames has some drawbacks:
Once you have a search result you can either open selected results (randomized) or create a playlist from the result. To open several results at once you can also use CRTL+Enter.
You can remove single result items with CTRL+DEL from the list to get a better overview if the search returns too much results.
The first tab in the lower part of the window is called "Saved Searches" and is the only tab which is not directly involved in a search.
Here you can save the currently used search settings (Save current search as new search), load them (Load) and also delete them (Delete).
Like this, recurring search pattern don't need to be entered every time from scratch.
A previously loaded search can be modified and updated (Update current search).
You can make one of the saved searches to the default search (Use as default search). It will be prefixed with [*]. This search will be loaded the first time
you open the search window or when you reset a search.
The clear button will reset every option in your current search to it's default value and will not consider any existing default search.
If no default search exists the reset and clear button have the same functionality.
In the lower part of the window you define your search. The more search options you provide the more exact (leading to fewer search results) your result will be.
You can provide a minimum and a maximum number of females who should appear in a scene. If you enter e.g. 3 and 5 only scenes with 3, 4 or 5 female persons in it will be found. Depending on those values some search options might change.
You can provide a minimum and a maximum number of females who should appear in a scene. If you enter e.g. 1 and 1 only scenes with exact one male person in it will be found. Depending on those values some search options might change (E.g. if a maximum of one male person is provided, you cannot search for DP).
You can provide an age range what the youngest and / or oldest age the performer should have. That implies that the date of shoot and
the year of birth of the performer must be known. If more then one performer (of a specified gender) appears in a scene all performers
must meet the range (except performers without a known birth year).
If you specify a minimum number of performers greater than one a second age range can be specified. If you are looking for mother/daughter
scenes you would enter "2" for Number of females and in one age range something like 18 and 25 and
in the other range something like 36 and 50.
At the moment you can specify only two ranges for each gender.
Find only scenes which has the provided rating or higher.
You can provide a time range (in minutes) how long a scene / bookmark should be.
Find only scenes which has the provided minimum width and/or height. That requires that those information are available (either you used mediainfo or provided those values manually).
You specify for each listed bookmarktype if this should be present (option "yes") or absent (option "no") in a scene. If you don't care leave it on "whatever".
If you are searching for bookmarks include your desired searchterms via the "yes"-option. Do NOT click any "no"-option.
You can narrow down the available persons in the tree by providing some search terms in the search input field. A person have to match only one of the search terms. For example: if you type in "ash gianna james" the tree might be narrowed down to: "James Deen", "Gianna Michaels", "Ashlynn Brooke" and "Sasha Grey".
You can narrow down your search by choosing one or more persons which must be included in a scene. You can select several persons in the tree while holding CTRL on your keyboard while clicking on a person.
After you provided your search options and hit the "Search" button the tree will be updated with the search result. Each node is a matching scene or bookmark. The contextmenu is the same as here. You can expand each node to see existing bookmarks to the selected scene.
A playlist can contain a mixture of movies, scenes and/or bookmarks (as long as they are not on a DVD).
Playlists can be ordered from new to old or by name. The default and history playlist will be always on top.
Playable items (movies, scenes,, bookmarks) can be dragged to a playlist to be added.
You can also move playlist entries from one playlist to another via drag & drop.
Each playable item (movie, scene, bookmark, person, studio, medium file) can be added via F6 to a temporary playlist.
A temporary playlist will be discarded on shutdown.
You can select several playlists while holding CTRL and delete all of them at once clicking on the button "Delete selected playlist(s)" or by pressing DEL.
You can merge a playlist into another one by just dragging it to another playlist node. The source playlist will be deleted after that.
If you want to preserve the source playlist and just copy the entries into a second playlist, hold the CTRL key pressed while dragging
the playlist to another.
You can also copy/move single playlist entries to another playlist.
This window allows you to create new persons and to view details to an existing one (e.g. if you are selecting a person in the " Persons"-window). Some information are provided for further information about this person (like all the URLs) and some are used by Scenerixx for sorting/searching.
If you create a new person which not exists please consider exporting and sending it to me so that others can profit from your work. In case you are doing that (thanks in advance) please provide as much information as you can find (please refrain sending in partial exports when you are too lazy to do two minutes of research. If the data cannot be found, partial exports are ok).
NOTE: I know that especially the type and sizes can be debatable. That's why I include for those values some examples later on in the description.
Sometimes you have corner cases where you could justify two values, for example tits that are too big to be categorized into "normal" but too small
for the "big" category. That's why at one point I introduced a "differentiator" why you can indicate if it's (+), less (-) or equals (=).
Remember that those values that are saved directly on a person are just default values which can be overwritten for each scene.
The human body is subject to change during the time. And especially performers who return after a pregnancy to the industry might look totally differently.
For those cases you can have different data (ass and tits size, body type and appearances) for several time spans. That's especially helpful if a performer
was undergoing some surgery.
Even though the fields should be more or less self-explanatory, let's have a quick look at them:
Shows the provided profile picture. With a click on it you can enlarge the picture. See the FAQ how to provide a profile picture.
Mark a person as favorite to have a quick overview over your current favorites in the person overview window.
Depending on the selected gender the fields vary a bit. Females have more fields. TS have most.
The name of the pornstar. If the person is credited differently in different movies, use the name which is used most often. If a person is usually credited only with a forename but is also known with a lastname, use the combination of both. E.g. "Naomi Russell" is usually credited only as "Naomi" but I used "Naomi Russell" here because it's clearer in case another person is credited with the same forename only.
Other aliases can be provided on each scene. If the person appears in some scenes under a different name those aliases are shown under "Known Aliases".
In case the real name of the person is known you can provide it here. Please do not include any real names which are only known because of leaks. If someone wants to keep it private and don't want to share it with the public this should be respected!
The address of the official site, if one exists. Don't include here any rip-offs (e.g. www.club[name].com) who look all the same and are *not* official.
If the person has a Twitter account, provide it here. Don't include any fake profiles, any spammer profiles or accounts that were dead from the beginning (only a handful of total tweets and no activity since years). Accounts that are dead but were used on a regular basis I usually include.
Same as Twitter, but for Instagram.
The IAFD-page for this person. IAFD provides additional information (like measurement, tattoos, birthplace, etc.) and usually a quite comprehensive list of movies/scenes ther person appeared in.
The wikipedia page if an entry for this person exists. If available provide the english version here. If no english article is available I usually provide one of the other languages (like spanish, french, german). Since Wikipedia links to articles in other languages (if they exist) this is just a small inconvenience if the provided language is not your mother tongue.
The ethnicity of the person. If it's not obvious what kind of ethnicity the person is, choose "Multi". Available values:
The hair color the person usually appears with. This property can be overwritten for each scene individually but would be used as a default value if no scene-specific value is provided. Available values:
The type of body the person has. This property can be overwritten for each scene individually but would be used as a default value if no scene-specific value is provided. Only available for females. Available values:
If the tits are fake or not. This property can be overwritten for each scene individually but would be used as a default value if no scene-specific value is provided. Only available for females.
If the tits are fake you can specify here how obvious it is. This property can be overwritten for each scene individually but would be used as a default value if no scene-specific value is provided. Only available for females.
The size of the tits. This property can be overwritten for each scene individually but would be used as a default value if no scene-specific value is provided. Only available for females. Available values:
The size of the ass. This property can be overwritten for each scene individually but would be used as a default value if no scene-specific value is provided. Only available for females. Available values:
Here you can provide other URLs like Facebook, MySpace, a second Twitter account, whatever.
The birthdate. Scenerixx calculates from this the age of the person if the date of shoot is also known. At least the birthyear needs to be known for that.
You can provide a rating (which can be used for sorting and the search later on). I personally use a scale from 1 to 10. 1 would equals "why the fuck do I have anything of this person, absolutely not my type, rather disgusting" and a 10 would be "top-notch". In case for uber uber uber cuties and marriage material I introduced also a 11 (=exceptionally top-notch) and 12 (=perfect). But that's up to you.
If the person appears under a different name in some scenes than the one provided under "Name" those aliases are shown here.
If this checkbox is selected the person will be only shown when you unlocked the session in the menu via "Scenerixx / 
Unlock Secret Items". This can be useful if you don't want anybody else to see this person if they are browsing your collection. (E.g. the mom of a friend of yours, ex-girlfriends, etc.)
Select this checkbox if you want to create a person entity for someone that you are reminded of.
E.g. for your neighbour, teacher, crush, co-worker, whatever.
Those persons are displayed in another color when you add them to a scene.
If they should not always be displayed check also the secret checkbox.
In the " Persons"-window you have the possibility to show only persons who reminds you of someone else.
You can define up to three other persons that this person reminds you of.
Those persons are also in a scene association. But they are not shown in the persons panel if
you select "Reminds me of" (for that you need to select the checkbox).
Comments you have on this person. This field is always visible no matter if the session is locked or unlocked. It's only called private to make clear that this data will not be exported if you are making an export of this person.
Before the URLs are buttons which will open the URL in a browser.
Clears the form and creates a new person.
Saves the current person. To save a person you need to provide at least: name, gender and ethnicity. You can also use CTRL+S *but* the details window must not be visible because it shares the same shortcut. If it is visible the details will be saved and the person not.
Resets the person to the last saved state.
n represents the number of how often you came (or better: how often you clicked the button). There is also on each scene/bookmark such a button. You can use the button on the person if the happy event was not bound to a scene rather to your imagination, a picture or whatever that made you think about this special person.
If you specified under 'Tools / Options / Directories' a 'Random profile picture directory' you can let Scenerixx try to download images of this person.
Scenerixx will use https://search.brave.com/ to find some images of the performer and download them in background.
This whole process will take ~30 seconds. But you can continue using Scenerixx in the meanwhile.
NOTE:
A shortcut to load any other existing person
A list of all persons the currently loaded person has performed with.
Depending on characteristics like body type, size of tits, ass, hair color, ethnicity and so on Scenerixx calculates a scoring value how similar the currently loaded person is to other persons. The lower the value the more similar the persons are.
Exports this person to a scenerixx-file.
Opens a file dialog where you can choose a scenerixx-file containing a person to import.
This window allows you to create new studios and to view details to an existing one (e.g. if you are selecting a studio in the " Studio Overview"-window). The term studio is here broadly defined and includes beside studios websites if they provide original content.
The name of the studio / website.
The URL of the wikipedia entry if one exists.
The official homepage.
Most studios have more than one official homepage (e.g. for press releases and endconsumers). You can provide a second URL here.
The official Twitter account.
Like the homepage studios tend to have several Twitter accounts.
Any other URLs, if the other fields are not sufficient.
Founding year. Nothing that is really used anywhere till now.
Behind the URLs are buttons which will open the URL in an external browser
Clears the form and creates a new studio.
Saves the current studio.
Resets the studio to the last saved state.
Exports this studio to a scenerixx-file.
Opens a file dialog where you can choose a scenerixx-file containing a studio to import.
Scenerixx needs to know where your files are. So, first you need to index those files, then hash them and optionally update the media information afterwards.
Choose the directory which should be indexed. If sub-directories should be included select the checkbox "Include sub-directories".
Scenerixx will then read in all files in the directory and write the filenames into its database.
You can repeat this process as often as you like and add all directories you want to manage with Scenerixx. It doesn't matter if the files are
directly on your harddrive or on an external drive. Scenerixx won't include duplicate entries so you don't have to worry about that.
This whole process shouldn't take that long (less than two minutes, depending on the size of the directory and the speed of your drive).
NOTE: try to avoid adding files. It's no harm if documents, binaries, etc. are included in the index but might slow things down if the
database grews unnecessarily big. So don't include the root-directory of your harddisk.
After you indexed your files you need to hash them. A hash is kind of a fingerprint to identify a file and looks something like this
be61adf69a400f30bc0c182611edc0ba209d388f. (For the tech-savvy folk among us, Scenerixx uses SHA1). The huge advantage of hashing the files
(and the reason why Scenerixx does that) is the fact that you don't have to rely on a filename to identify a file. With this hash we can identify
a movie and therefore provide further information about it (in form of scenerixx-files) if the hash is already known to us.
Hashing is absolutely essential to Scenerixx. You cannot associate an unhashed file with a movie.
The hashing process itself takes quite some time since every bit and byte of every file is needed to be read. Depending on the size of your index
(and the speed of your disc) this might take several hours.
You can always abort the hashing process and continue it later on. Each file needs to be hashed only once so it's a one time thing.
After the hashing process is finished, Scenerixx starts automatically the import process where Scenerixx checks if for a hashed file a corresponding import file exists. If an import file is found, Scenerixx will import this file into the database so that you don't have to enter all the information again.
This is to help cleaning up the database.
At first Scenerixx checks if some detached database entries exists and removes those. And then:
If you rename or delete files on your disc the data in the database will be out of sync. Clicking 'Purge' will clean up your database. In case you renamed
files, you should first index your directory again and purge directly afterwards. Do NOT hash your files in between. Scenerixx will try to find renamed files
and re-assign them so that you are not losing any information (counters, associations to movies, etc.).
You should make sure that all devices are connected (in case you indexed anything on external devices).
Adds a single file to the index. If you acquired a new movie or you want to index only a single file and not a whole directory, this is the way to go.
When you want to index a DVD you need to choose the directory with the VOB-files in it. Scenerixx will then try to build hash and check if the DVD is
already known.
Since DVD drives are slowly Scenerixx is not building the hash of each file but rather concatenates all filesizes into a string and calculates
the hash on this string. If you want to have more information on the technical details, drop me a line.
If you have MediaInfo installed (as suggested in the requirements) you can update the media information of the movies. MediaInfo
tries to determine the resolution and duration of the movies. This works usually for >95% of the files. But you can also provide those information manually
in the " MediumFiles"-window, in case you don't have MediaInfo installed or MediaInfo is not able to determine those values.
This might also take some time (not as long as hashing but longer than indexing) but can also be aborted whenever you want. It's not necessary that files
are already hashed.
The determined values can be used for searching and/or ordering later on.
If you have FFmpeg installed (as suggested in the requirements) you can create screencaps for each movie.
Consider that the generation of a screencap with FFmpeg will occupy one CPU core for 100% for several minutes for each file (sometimes much more).
The created screencaps can be viewed in the screencap-tab of the details window of a movie.
NOTE: the output of FFmpeg is quite verbose and might contain several warning and error messages which can be ignored. Frankly speaking, I just show the
output so the user knows that FFmpeg is still working and he does not have to stare on a blank window for several minutes until he gets a feedback from Scenerixx.
If you delete a scene or movie where a screencap exists this screencap is not deleted right away. You have to purge them manually.
It can also happen that during the generation something went wrong and a zero byte file is created which has the effect that no screencap
can be shown but also no screencap gets generated. Those zero byte files will be also deleted.
Duplicates are an annoyance. They take a up space and you might enter data several times. While Scenerixx can find exact duplicates (via the
hash of a file) it's a bit more tricky if the duplicates have a different resolution and / or a different file size.
To find also those duplicates this function compares the screencaps of all movies with the exact same runtime and if the difference
between those screencaps are below a certain threshold (at the moment 10.0) they are considered as duplicates and both movies are saved
on a separate playlist.
This whole process is quite lengthy. Depending on your collection size and your CPU this might take several hours (like 12 hours and more).
Therefore you can specify with which runtime (in seconds) Scenerixx should start so that you can abort the process in between and continue
later on.
You can also define a threshold value to define how sensitive the duplicate finder should react. A value of 10.0 will most likely not generate
any false positives. A value 20.0 generates a few false positives but will find duplicates where the screencap differs already quite a bit.
Anything above 25.0 will generate a lot of false positives.
If not otherwise specified the duplicate finder will compare only movies with the same runtime. With "difference in seconds" you can change
this behavior and allow the comparison of movies where the runtime differs. This might lead to more results but also takes much more time.
After the process finished you can go through the playlist and check if the playlist really contains duplicates and delete them accordingly.
False positives can be marked as 'no duplicate'.
With this functionality you can rename the filepaths in the database en bloc.
This is especially useful if you move your collection (or parts of it, e.g. to another hard disk) and
you don't want to re-index and re-hash those files. You could simply replace the string "C:\" to "D:\" in all filepaths.
Don't use this function when you are drunken. And a backup is always a good idea. ;-)
The wizard combines most functionality of the " Indexing, Hashing, Purging"-window.
You choose a directory and the wizard indexes, hashes, gets the runtime information, creates movie entities,
add scene entities to those (if a certain runtime is not exceeded), creates the screencaps, analyzes the filename and
import based on that person data and assign persons to solo and lesbian scenes if we can determine the persons.
And the same is done for studios.
The person name does not need to match exactly rather those three forms are valid to be considered a match:
"DarlaCrane", "Darla_Crane" and "Darla Crane".
So: all in all quite useful if it works. Since its not always fault-free a flag is set on each created movie entity.
In the details window a hint is shown if the data were generated by the wizard. With the click on a button you can
confirm the correctness of the data.
NOTE: files that have been previously deleted will not get imported again.
Aborts a currently running process (indexing, hashing, importing, updating mediainformation). This might take some time. If Scenerixx is hashing currently a file and you hit abort, Scenerixx will finish hashing the current file and stop after that the further hashing process.
Scenerixx comes already along with some import files. But hopefully those will get more and more week after week. Check the twitter account for the newest import files. Those come along in a zip-file that you can upload here. Scenerixx will extract the newest import files and start the import process after that.
99% of the time you will not need the menu.
Exit - Exits Scenerixx
The menu entries Movie List, Details, Persons, Person Details, Medium Files, Playlist, Search, Studios, Studio Details and Indexing, Hashing, Purging opens the corresponding window. You will need this only if you closed a window before.
Lock Secret Items - Locks an unlocked session. That implies: all secret entities are hidden again and the behavior of loading profile pictures change. When a session is unlocked it's written in the titlebar.
Unlock Secret Items - Unlocks a session to show secret entities. In case you provided a password in the options you have to enter this first.
Disable Expensive Icons - The reload of the movie list is quite an expensive operation. The bigger your collection the more painful it gets. To mitigate this problem a bit your can disable
the usage of some icons which are quite expensive to calculate: ISO files, DVDs, movies on a playlist.
If those icons are disabled you can speed up the reload by ~20%.
Clear notifications - Clears notifications. Notifications disappear after some time on its own. So this is only useful if a lot of notifications were shown in a short amount of time.
Notes - A small helper. Sometimes you might want to take notes like noting the name of a studio that you don't have and want to create later because you don't have the time right now. Happened to me more often than expected. That's why it is here :)
IDE Log - You won't need this unless you want to gain some inside on what is going on inside Scenerixx. Only useful for troubleshooting and debugging.
Full Screen - I tried to make Scenerixx useable on smaller screens. If you need to gain some more pixels switch to full screen (which omits the title bar).
Options - Shows the options dialog
You won't need any of this. This menu is part of the NetBeans platform on which Scenerixx is based on. The only menu entry worth mentioning is Reset Windows in case you messed the windows up and you want to have the original layout back.
Scenerixx Help - Shows this help
Scenerixx Changelog - Shows the changelog
Check for updates - Checks if a newer version of Scenerixx is available
Tip of the day - Shows some helpful tips about the features of Scenerixx
About - Licence stuff and information about the system which might be useful for troubleshooting
Defines which log messages should be shown in the output window. Only useful for troubleshooting.
Defines the font size in percentage. A value of 100 is the normal size. A value less than 100 makes the font
smaller. A value bigger 100 makes it bigger.
Do not use a value too high. A value of 150 e.g. would make the application already unusable.
Maybe experiment with this value in steps of fives.
NOTES: A restart is required for changes to take effect. And icons will NOT change in size.
Defines how many movies should be displayed when in the movie list the option "show last X" is selected. Default value is 10.
If you don't want to see the help on every startup, uncheck this box.
The startup of Scenerixx increases with the size of your collection.
To speed up the startup process you can load only favorite movies in the movies tabs after starting.
Of course you can show all movies again by selecting the value from the combobox.
In sum it makes no difference if you are always select to show all movies directly after startup.
But if you want to e.g. add new persons in a session where you are not using the movies tab it is really helpful.
Defines if profile pictures should be always hidden in locked mode or shown depending on the rules defined here .
You can specify a directory under "Directories / Random profile pictury directors" where you store more pictures which should be displayed as profile picture. Subdirectories will be included. For the details see here .
Defines if covers should be always hidden in locked mode. I mainly implemented this so that my toddlers could walk into my room during development without seeing explicit content.
Defines if screencaps should be always hidden in locked mode. I mainly implemented this so that my toddlers could walk into my room during development without seeing explicit content.
When Smart Start is activated Scenerixx will open a movie at the Intro-bookmark or, if this is not available, at the first scene. Skip all the legal disclaimers and logos and get right to the action.
When this flag is set and the first boomark in a movie is an interterview the interview will be skipped when the movie is started.
When this flag is set and the first boomark in a movie is of the bookmark type "Story" then the interview will be skipped when the movie is started.
You can change the look and feel here. Just select one of the available look and feels from the drop down box and confirm your selection with the "Change Look & Feel" button.
Some look and feels can be customized by a theme.
Scenerixx will save your selection and use your selection starting Scenerixx the next time.
The windows look and feel is only available on the Windows plattform.
Scenerixx shows after startup a more or less helpful message about the features of this program on the screen.
If you don't want this dialog to be shown on every startup, deactivate it here. You can call this dialog under "Help / Tip of the day"
You can check manually if a new version of Scenerixx is available under "Help / Check for updates" or you can check this option and let Scenerixx search for a new version with every start.
If this option is activated Scenerixx gathers some numbers needed for the statistic on startup.
Usually a dialog asks if the "date of shoot" should also applied to scenes if a movie is saved. With this option the dialog gets skipped and the date will always get applied to the scenes. Unless some scenes have already a value. In this case you will be asked if those values should be overwritten.
Usually a dialog asks if the "movie types" should also applied to scenes if a movie is saved. With this option the dialog gets skipped and the types will always get applied to the scenes.
Before Scenerixx 3.0 search results updated automatically on each keypress.
That could have cost quite some delays if the search result was quite big.
Since Scenerixx 3.0 you need to confirm your search with the enter key. If you
rather prefer the old behaviour this option is for you.
With Scenerixx 4.1.0 a feature was introduced to open a movie via a double-click on the screencap. Up till version 4.6.0 no playlist entry for the history playlist
was created when you opened a movie like this.
You can change this now by selecting this option.
Note: why is this an option and not just an ordinary bugfix? Because I use the double-click feature quite often only to open a movie while I'm editing data
(e.g. getting the runtime of a scene, etc.) and not because I want to watch it right now. Therefore those "starts" of movie is not something I want to have
on the history playlist.
When you open in the movie window the movie list randomized you have here the possibility to define how many scenes Scenerixx should consider.
The default value is 100. So it does not matter if you have 1.000 or 50.000 in your list only 100 scenes will be opened in a random way.
For some users this was not enough that's why you can configure the value on your own.
Why not taking the whole list and shuffle it? Performance reasons. I opened a list with 50k entries and it took over ten minutes before VLC started.
If you still don't want to restrict it set the value to 0.
Some nodes/components provide a tooltip. You can specify how long you need to hover above such a component to
let the tooltip show.
If you specify 1500 ms the tooltip will be shown after 1.5 seconds. If you move to another component with a tooltip
and the time between leaving the first component and entering the component is less than the reshow delay the other
tooltip will be shown immediately. Once the reshow delay has passed you need to wait again what you have specified
as the delay value.
You can provide a password here which has to be used to unlock a session.
NOTE: While the password itself is stored as a hash (using the bcrypt-algorithm) secured items
are NOT encrypted. Thus: if someone has access to your database they can read those items.
You can provide a password here which has to be used to start Scenerixx or ScenerixxHub.
NOTE: While the password itself is stored as a hash (using the bcrypt-algorithm) the database itself
is NOT encrypted. Thus: if someone has access to your database they can read it.
The default color to highlight search terms in the search result is some kind of orange (#FFC40C). If you prefer another color you can choose it here.
The interface is quite overloaded and some features will be probably not be used by everybody. Here you can disable some features. After a change a restart is required else the UI might behave strange or inconsistent.
While DVD, Export and Import are clearly defined features, "rarely used functionality" hides a little bit of everything like:
Defines the directory in which exports should be saved.
Defines the directory in which Scenerixx should look for profile pictures.
Defines the directory in which Scenerixx should look randomly for profile pictures.
Defines the directory in which Scenerixx should look for screencaps.
The directory where exported playlists should be saved. Default value is ${user.home}/scenerixx/playlists
The binary directories for the programs VLC, FFMpeg and MediaInfo Defines can be specified here in case the programs are not on the path.
The directory where Scenerixx should save any downloads the user requests (see also tube movie).The default location is "${user}/scenerixxdownloads"
Usually the system default browser is used when a link is opened. If you are using for you adult browsing another browser you can add here the complete path to the executable.
Defines the dimension of a single picture. Default value is 320x240. The values should not be lower then 20. Don't set it too high since the screencap will be scaled down anyway. Maximum value is 2000.
Defines how many pictures per column should be created. Default value is 5. Minimum is 2. Maximum is 20.
Defines how many pictures per row should be created. Default value is 6. Minimum is 2. Maximum is 20.
As default Scenerixx does not create a screencap for each scene. Depending on the size of your collection the needed hard disc
space can easily extend several dozen gigabytes.
Scenerixx can only generate screencaps for scenes where a start and an end time is set.
Which port the server should use Default is 8090.
Should the server be started during startup of Scenerixx.
The Scenerixx Wizard tries to make your life a bit easier. You specify a directory that you want to include in your collection and the wizard will index the files, hash them, determine the runtime, create the screencaps and creates the movie entity and maybe also a scene entity (if the runtime is not too long). Furthermore it checks if it's a solo or lesbian scene and tries to associate the person (if known) to the movie. Persons are also added to your collection in case we recognize a person where we have the available data but it's not yet included in database. It also detects duplicates.
Specifies the duration of a file up until it's considered a single scene.
The default value is 65. If a movie is 65 or less minutes long it's considered a single scene and therefore a scene entity
is added to the movie. If it's longer we assume it has more scenes and therefore no scene at all is created.
If your project structure is more or less ordered this can be really helpful. If you ordered your collection up till now for example like this:
movies
|-> Aurora Snow
| |-> First Movie
| |-> Second Movie
|-> Jessa Rhoades
|-> Bobbi Starr
So the created movie title wouldn't be "First Movie" rather "Aurora Snow - First Movie"
If a filename contains tags like "First Movie #Story #Office #Outdoor" and Scenerixx
recognizes the tag it gets set on the movie entity if this checkbox is set.
Per movie entity only six tags can be saved. If more tags are included in the file name you are out of luck.
If checked a short sound will be played after the Wizard finished.
This option is only used if the wizard should try to detect multi file movies.
If a directory is called "The best of Lisa Ann" and the files are:
then there are 14 characters difference between directory and file name. As default 40 characters difference are allowed.
Be aware: If the file names would be called "scene 1.avi", etc. Scenerixx would not recognize it as a multi file movie
because directory and file name do not match.
This option is only used if the wizard should try to detect multi file movies.
As a default value 10 is used. If there are 10 or less files in a directory Scenerixx tries to determine if it's a multi file movie.
If the directory name is present in the file names and the character of difference is not too big, it's considered as a multi file movie
and only one movie entity is created and all found files are associated to this movie.
You can create GIFs from bookmarks.
In which directory should the GIFs be stored.
How many frames should they have? The higher the number the more "smooth" the animation is (but the file size will also be bigger).
The width the GIF should have.
Scenerixx creates a backup from your database if you want during shutdown.
If you are using the default embedded database the directory with the database
is copied. You can easily copy the folder back in case you have to.
If you are using a MySql or MariaDB a dump is created. And if you are using
one of those databases I assume how you can import the dump again ;-)
As default backups are stored in {user.directory}/scenerixx/backup
You can specify a directory on your own. But keep in mind that nothing
else should be stored in there because old directories will get deleted
over time. A check if this is really a backup directory is NOT made!
How many backups should be kept? Default value is 10. If the 11th backup is created one will get deleted.
Scenerixx comes with a build-in server that let's you stream your collection in your network: Scenerixx Hub. You just need the menu items
"Scenerixx Hub / 
Start Scenerixx Hub" and
"Scenerixx Hub / 
Stop Scenerixx Hub".
After starting the server it will be available under http://localhost:8090
The port can be changed in the options.
If you want to unlock secret items, unfold the menu (the burger icon) and click on "Unlock". If you set a password in the options, enter your password and press enter.
But be warned: this is more a proof of concept at the moment!
The Scenerixx VLC Bridge is a crappy piece of software that lets you interact with Scenerixx from VLC within in a limited way.
You need to start the Scenerixx Hub. Within ScenerixxVlcBridge.lua you'll find several strings "http://localhost:7679" The 7679 is the port which has to be the same as the one Scenerixx Hub is running. Either you modify the lua script or you choose the port in the Options under "Scenerixx Hub / Port"
Within VLC you need to activate OSD so the plugin can give you feedback after each action.
Activate OSD under "Tools / Preferences / Subtitles/OSD / Enable On Screen Display (OSD)"
In the directory {scenerixx}/scenerixxvlcbridge you'll find a file ScenerixxVlcBridge.lua.
You need to copy this file into the plugin directory of VLC.
Where this directory is depends on the system.
VLC has officially several places where plugins can be placed:
For All Users
In Windows: Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\extensions\
In Linux: /usr/share/vlc/lua/extensions/
For Current User
In Windows: %APPDATA%\vlc\lua\extensions\
In Linux: ~/.local/share/vlc/lua/extensions/
I had to try several locations until I found something that worked out.
For me it was in:
~/.var/app/org.videolan.VLC/data/vlc/lua/extensions/ScenerixxVlcBridge.lua
If this all does not help you need to Google yourself for other possibilities.
Sorry.
Once the plugin is in the correct directory VLC have after a restart a new menu
item under "View": "Scenerixx VLC Bridge".
You need to click this once to activate the plugin. After that you will be offered
several menu items:
"Mark movie as favorite"
Marks a movie as favorite. If it is already marked as favorite nothing
happens. Thus: the state is not toggled.
"Mark scene as favorite"
Marks a scene as favorite. In order to be able to flag the scene the
scene must have a start and an end time set. Scenerixx uses the current
runtime of the movie in VLC to determine the scene which should be flagged.
If no scene matches nothing is done.
"I came"
Creates an I came bookmark for the current timetamp. Like in "Mark scene
as favorite" the times of the scenes must be set.
"Add scene starting at current position"
Creates a new scene for the playing movie with the current timestamp
as the starting time.
"Set end time for scene"
Sets the end time for the scene that was created before.
"Add bookmark starting at current position"
Adds a bookmark with the current runtime as a starting time. Like in
"Mark scene as favorite" the times of the scenes must be set.
"Set end time for bookmark"
Sets the end time for the bookmark that was created before.
Before you can use the plugin you need to start the Scenerixx Hub from
within Secenerixx.
Limitations
There are no shortcuts. VLC does not allow any for plugins.
There's no feedback in case of an error. You see those only in the logs.
And sometimes the whole plugin might crash.
The documentation for VLC plugins is ... not very exhaustive. To be honest
I pretty much have no clue what I was doing there.
Well, I love porn :)
There are great tools out there for everything. Your music collection, books, movies, whatever. But not for porn. At least not that I'm aware of.
Within the years my collection grew and grew and with it the struggle to sort it / find something you were specifically looking for.
I'm not the kind of porn consumer who just fires up a streaming site, watch 10 minutes of something and clear my browser history after that.
Like music there is a certain mood for everything. Sometimes I'm looking specifically for a certain girl, a certain type of girl, a certain type of sex,
sometimes a combination of all of those. Hell, sometimes I'm just having a movie playing on the second screen while working instead of listening to music.
We all know that the internet was made for porn, so there HAD to be something. Or? Sure, there are sites like iafd.com which I really appreciate and love
(kudos to you guys), but are not helpful with my local collection. But that was exactly something I wanted.
After explaining the why, let's have a quick look at the history of my struggles which led to the current software.
And while I was at it, I was thinking: hey, this is cool and goes into the direction of what I wanted to have since years.
It would be awesome to have a search where I could exactly specify what I'm looking for. Like: today I'm in the mood for a scene with
two girls, one in their early 20s, the other one at the end of their 30s together with one guy and I want to see some titty fucking, squirting and a creampie.
And I want to see it at least in 1080p.
After a few weeks I realized two things:
a) That's a bunch of work to do. That comes not really at a surprise but while creating the movies, adding the scenes and then the persons to it is
relatively fast done, putting all the search relevant details to all the scenes is such a massive amount of work that it would be a life's task.
Don't get me wrong. Even without a full-fledged search with all the bells and whistles and only basic search capabilities it's an invaluable tool to me.
b) This could be useful to other freaks like me.
This led to following thoughts:
As a developer it's always nice if your software is used by a lot of people. Of course there's no guarantee that anybody except me finds this useful.
If this should be the case: fine by me. If it is useful to others: even better.
If it is useful to others maybe some people would contribute something back: data. No matter if person details, studios, movies or whatever data is needed
to make this software more useful.
First I was thinking about a client/server architecture so that if a user enters e.g. data of a new person this data is send to a server and other clients
can fetch and use this data.
But that would imply that I need a server which costs money and needs to be maintained (thus costing time). Beside that I would need to develop a
algorithm that can handle for example merges, taking care about security and so on. Short: it would complicate a lot of things. Without knowing if it's
worth the effort.
That's why (at the moment) everything is handled via (XML-like) files. You can export data, send the file to someone (for example me :) and the
person can import those files on their site. It's not very comfortable but from a technical point of view very simple.
So, either I need more time or more money. Or better: both.
Beside not knowing if people would use this software another question arose: would people be willed to pay for a software like this? And then I stumbled
across this article: Modder Makes Over $4,000 A Month Adding A Lot Of Sex To The Sims 4.
Wow. That blow my mind. There was one guy making a living of a niche product. To be fair, I do believe that there's really a lot of work behind that.
But if I see that something like Yo, which was done in 8 hours, was valued between $5 and $10 million
just 4 months after launching and enabled the developer to quit his job to work on this app full-time, I think that till now I was making something
fundamentally wrong.
Since I spent a lot of hours (definitely more than 8) working on this product, I'll give it a shot, and try to make at least a few bucks out of it.
I spent a good deal of thinking about how to do it, like:
To be honest, I have no clue how to do it yet. So why do I write all of this? Just to be fair and tell you ahead that I'm thinking about monetizing this software. I guess in the future there will be a freemium model where a basic version will be free and a version with additional features will cost you something (like money, a cryptocurrency or you have to send me some new scenerixx-files, I don't know yet).
The most important part for the moment: Right now the software is free. Though donations are very welcome ;-)
Theoretically Scenerixx will run under Linux, Windows and macOS.
Till now Scenerixx was tested only on Linux systems. Tests under Windows will follow shortly.
Since I don't own a Mac I'm depended on people who own one and will give Scenerixx a shot.
It can happen that you installed Java but Scenerixx is not finding the installation. In this case you can specify the installation path directly in the file {scenerixx}/etc/scenerixx.conf At the very end you insert the line: jdkhome="path/to/java"
In the options dialog you can change the look and feel.
You can open a window that you accidentally closed via the "Scenerixx"-menu or reset all windows with "Window / Reset Windows"
Scenerixx will just index the folders you tell Scenerixx to index. The collected data will be saved in a database which is stored locally on your computer.
Scenerixx does not collect any data about your system, your collection, about crashreports or anything else. Also the website does not have any tracking tools installed.
At the moment only a few features (like managing tube movies or checking for a newer version) will need an internet connection (with probably more about to come).
At the moment you can use Scenerixx nearly completely offline.
If Scenerixx should ever collect personal data that should be shared with us we will ask you for your permission.
LIES! That's not possible. Just kidding. Scenerixx has several ten thousands lines of code, so I might overlooked something. In case an unexpected
exception occurred, Scenerixx will open up a dialog to inform you what went wrong. Please be so kind and send me the information that is displayed
under "Show and report problem". Scenerixx itself will *not* sent any information automatically. Add a small description what you were doing just before
the error occurred. In case you could solve the problem with the provided error message please send me still the exception, so that I can handle it
in future versions.
The log-files could be also helpful.
Also let me know if something is not working as expected even though no error is shown. Except the erratic behaviour is already listed in the FAQ.
Check the homepage and/or twitter-account for new importfiles and upload them into Scenerixx.
As soon as you downloaded a new version of Scenerixx, just unpack the archive into a new folder and start the new version. The old directory of the old version can be deleted. Do NOT delete the directories "scenerixx" and ".scenerixx" in your home directory since they contain the database / configuration.
Scenerixx itself does not provide an uninstall-functionality. If you want to get rid of it, just delete the following three folders:
In case you configured some export directory or a "profile picture"-directory you might want to delete those too.
Scenerixx creates in your user directory a directory named "scenerixxdata" which contains the HSQLDB database. You can just copy this directory if you want to have a backup.
Scenerixx creates in your user directory a hidden directory named ".scenerixx" which contains some configuration and log-files (under "var/log"). Usually you won't need to have a look into these (except for troubleshooting).
Scenerixx recognizes following extensions for pictures: jpg, jpeg, gif, bmp, webp and png.
Recognized movie extensions: avi, mp4, mp7, mkv, mpeg, mpg, asf, divx, mov, f4v, flv, wma, mwv, m4v, iso, vid, rmvb, rm and mpe.
Some performers are long enough in the industry that they change visibly over the time. Either via operation or whatever. Have a look at
Eden Adams for example.
That's why you can specify data about the body for each person several times. You can specify a time span which is not used currently but
might be used in the future to select the right data for scene details if the date of shoot is known automatically.
Use the differentiator if a value is in between two values and it is hard to decide which one it is.
E.g. if a body part is between "big" and "huge" you could choose either "big" with the "more" (+)
differentiator or "huge" with the "less" (-) differentiator.
At the moment you cannot use differentiators as a search criteria.
If you want to skip a certain part within a scene you can use an ignore bookmark.
E.g.: A scene is 20 minutes long. And from 8:25 till 8:45 the scene is interrupted with
some kind of story line or something like that, that you don't want to see. If you add an ignore
bookmark to the scene with those exact times, the part will be skipped.
Note: at the moment it's not possible to skip within the video manually. As soon as you do
the ignore bookmarks are getting ignored :-/
You can provide a date on each movie/scene. This date is used to calculate the age of the persons. It's not always possible to find the exact date of the
shooting. Usually if only production dates are stated I subtract two or three weeks and use the resulting month and year. So those dates should be taken
with a grain of salt. The terms "date of shoot" and "production date" are therefore used quite broadly and interchangeable here, even though it's not correct.
Also be aware of compilations where scenes are not necessarily were shot in the same year. In those cases you can provide on each
scene a different date.
If you by accident associated mediumfiles in the wrong order to a movie you fix it either by removing the mediumfiles from the movie (in the context-menu of the movie) or
you search for the mediumfiles in the " Medium Files"-window and change the value of "position" on every.
It's not a bug, it's a feature ;-) Seriously, over the time I was fed up seeing the same picture again and again while developing this application. Therefore I show with each start another (female) person.
There are different entities which have a secret-flag, namely: Movies, Bookmarks, Persons and Playlists. If the secret-flag is set, those entities
will only show up after you unlocked them (in the menu Scenerixx/ Unlock Secret Items). That allows you to let someone else browse your collection without
worrying that the other one will see something you don't want him to see (homevideos of your wife, pictures of your hot neighbour, whatever).
The data that you provide in "Reminds me of" (at the person and scene entity) will always be treated as a secret.
WARNING: Secrets are only hidden in the application itself. If someone has access to the database they can see those secrets. Secrets are also not encrypted, even if you provide a password.
Secret items (movies & bookmarks) are tracked in a separate history playlist. What you should be aware of: If you start a movie which is not secret, it will be added to the normal history playlist. After making the movie a secret movie the history entry in the normal playlist remains! It will not be automatically converted to the secret history playlist. You can still delete it from the normal history playlist manually if you want.
If a person is marked as secret and will be associated to a scene of a public movie the person will be shown in this scene.
If you want to associate a picture to the person drag&drop a picture file from the " MediumFiles"-window to a person in the " Persons"-window.
You might need to move one of the windows by clicking on their tab and drag it somewhere else so that you can see both windows at the same time.
If a picture is associated like this to a person the " Person Details"-window will always show this picture.
As an alternative you can define a directory in the options which will be searched for a corresponding file. The filename needs to start with the persons name.
E.g. if you have a person named "Sasha Grey" the program will search this folder recursively to see if it finds a file which starts with this name. Files that would be found:
As you see, capitalization is ignored. Extensions can be .jpg, .jpeg, .png and .gif.
You can also include the string "nsfw" in the filename. In this case this file is preferred when the session is unlocked.
E.g.
Is the session locked, "Sasha Grey.jpg" would be shown, is the session unlocked "sasha grey outside - nsfw.jpg". Except a picture was associated to the person
in which case the associated picture will be shown.
Names that wouldn't work (because they don't match the name):
This won't work with persons who share the same name. In this case you need to associated the picture by yourself to the person to show the right picture.
On a last note: it can happen that the wrong image is shown if a name is very short and is contained in another name. E.g.:
Here it can happen, that the picture "Katja Kassin.jpg" is displayed even though we are on the detail page of "Kat".
Since Scenerixx 2.0.0 you can specify in the options another directory. The sub directories must be named like the persons, e.g.:
profileRootDir
|-Aurora Snow
|-Bobbi Starr
|-Jessa Rhoades
Inside each sub directory you can save as many pictures as you want and Scenerixx will display in random order a picture from one of the directories as the profile picture.
NOTE: it's not sufficient to set "Random profile picture directory" alone you must also specify a "Profile picture directory" even though it might not be used.
It's the same as a profile picture. Just save the studio along along with the other profile pictures (or in a separate sub-directory). If Scenerixx finds a picture that has the same name as a studio it will get displayed in the studio details window.
Sometimes audio and video are not in sync. VLC offers the possibility to correct this behaviour. You can specify a value (positive or negative) in milliseconds to let VLC play your file correctly again. You can set this value either in the MediumFile-Window or in the Details-Window. In both cases the value is stored so that VLC will always pick up the value if you are starting the file from within the application so you don't have to be bothered with out-of-sync audio the next time anymore.
Note: this works quite good when the audio is behind. If the video is behind (you start a file and the video starts normally but there are some seconds cut off the audio-stream so that the audio is quite ahead of the video) VLC might run into some problems. A few milliseconds adjustment is fine. But I had problems when the audio was several seconds ahead of the video. In those cases VLC played just a few seconds and suddenly stopped. So, there might be nothing wrong with your provided value, but with VLC itself.
Scenerixx tracks the hashes of deleted files. If a previously deleted medium file is added again to the index this medium file is marked with a dedicated icon. The wizard ignores such files. Little drawback: if you delete a duplicate the remaining file still gets marked.
I know that a lot of information exists on the internet (iafd, data18, freeones, etc.) so why not scraping those sites?
First of all: if those sites change there layout, the scraper will be broken. Second: most sites do not allow a scraping. It's as simple as that.
I know that Scenerixx can become quite unresponsive when you have already several hundred thousands movies in the database and you are creating new movies
the movie tab is reloaded quite often (because of saving an entity, creating new ones, etc.). This got better in the past but it's still not completely fixed.
Maybe you want to re-arrange the layout because of reasons. You can maxime/minimize a tab by double-clicking on it. If you drag& drop a tab you can place it somewhere else. You can also close tabs if you don't need them at the moment. If you closed a tab by accident you can open it via the menu again.
If you want to get in touch with me drop me a line at [email protected] or contact me via twitter: https://twitter.com/scenerixx
If you are using MySQL you need to make sure that UTF8 is passed as encoding into the connection string. See use MySql.
This piece of information was missing in the documentation up to version 1.2.0.
Ratings usually have a heart as a suffix and ratings a star. Not all fonts that are used by the look & feels support those characters. Since Scenerixx 3.3.0 some fallback characters will be shown.
If VLC is installed as a snap Scenerixx detects VLC as installed but is not able to open any movies.
I was also not able to make it work to pass a filename from the command line to VLC. So as a workaround you need to install VLC as
non-snap version at the moment.
I once had the problem that VLC was not starting anymore from within. The log showed something like this:
13:02:59.506 FINE [xxx.scenerixx.scenerixxmodule.windows.movie.MovieListTopComponent]: VLC Stdout: [0000560d1bf8efa0] [http] lua interface: Lua HTTP interface 13:02:59.507 FINE [xxx.scenerixx.scenerixxmodule.windows.movie.MovieListTopComponent]: VLC Stdout: [0000560d1bfe30d0] main interface error: no suitable interface module 13:02:59.507 FINE [xxx.scenerixx.scenerixxmodule.windows.movie.MovieListTopComponent]: VLC Stdout: [0000560d1bef6670] main libvlc error: interface "default" initialization failed 13:02:59.508 FINE [xxx.scenerixx.scenerixxmodule.windows.movie.MovieListTopComponent]: VLC Stdout: [0000560d1bf8efa0] [http] main interface error: socket bind error: Address already in use 13:02:59.508 FINE [xxx.scenerixx.scenerixxmodule.windows.movie.MovieListTopComponent]: VLC Stdout: [0000560d1bf8efa0] [http] main interface error: socket bind error: Address already in use 13:02:59.508 FINE [xxx.scenerixx.scenerixxmodule.windows.movie.MovieListTopComponent]: VLC Stdout: [0000560d1bf8efa0] [http] main interface error: cannot create socket(s) for HTTP host 13:02:59.508 FINE [xxx.scenerixx.scenerixxmodule.windows.movie.MovieListTopComponent]: VLC Stdout: [0000560d1bf8efa0] [http] lua interface error: Error loading script /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/vlc/lua/intf/http.luac: lua/intf/http.lua:336: Failed to create HTTP host
It might be that you need to switch the log level to 'finest' to see the log.
My solution was to execute
vlc --reset-config
on the terminal. I have no clue how this happened. And it only happened once in six years. So probably you won't need it anytime soon.
You want to help? Great! Create some scenerixx-files and send them to me. Let me know if you encounter a bug. Or if you are missing a feature (also if it's already listed in the roadmap section so I can triage them) or a predefined value. Spread the word. Tell it to your friends and/or mention it on any social media platform. Don't hesitate to report even small typos. Or just drop me a line saying "hi", so that I know if people are using this software or not.
You want to donate something (other than data)? Awesome: You can send me some Bitcoins to: 1EsvZXaeAmDxpRFVaGo7JysAVvFbgZGaUZ