[mythtv-users] Mythweb - MythVideo on the web

jondz jondz at dca.net
Fri Apr 1 07:50:37 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 02:45, jondz wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 00:10, Sammo wrote:
> > MythVideo is great, I really like the feature to search IMDB for
> > posters and movie information.
> > 
> > Is it possible to search IMDB from within MythWeb? Currently I can
> > click on "Edit Video Info" to manually enter info (but can't even
> > manually add poster images).
> > 
> > If it's not possible to do that in the current MythWeb, is there a way
> > to do it remotely through ssh? I know there's the
> > mythtv/mythvideo/scripts/imdb.pl file which retrieves the info etc,
> > but I don't know how to put it into the Myth databse.
> > 
> > If all the above fails, what would be the fastest way to get movie
> > info/images for a large number of videos?
> > 
> > Thanks mythtv-users for all your support!
> 
> I recall doing this, ftp or sftp an image thru where
> mythtv directory stores the video images; then 
> on the MythVideo utilities right arrow, then
> select the image on one of the options there.  
> I sortof recall putting movie 
> info thru mythweb but assigning the image on mythvideo
> (or maybe both can be done on mythweb?).
> 
> Sorry can't be more specific as I've got the disk crash
> and trying to recover my mythtv box...


More to this, (reading my sql text dump) if you can't recall
where the video artwork are located, check out (in mysql)

   select * from settings where value = 'VideoArtworkDir'

jondz



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