[mythtv-users] Stupid question about MythDVD and ripping

[Michael Haan]

On 4/13/05, Garry Cook <garrycook at gmail.com> wrote:
> [snip]
> > Directory it was trying to rip to didn't exist.  Next question - do I
> > have to do anything special to get the IMDB functionality working?
> >
> 
> Probably not, unless you consider network setup to be special. You
> should have a working net connection on your box to fill your mythtv
> database...
> 
> For me, the IMDB functionality was not very intuitive. You'll need to
> go into Setup, in the Mythvideo area IIRC, select the movies that
> you've ripped, and then press OK or maybe spacebar on the keyboard to
> bring up a menu. From that menu you can search for the movie in IMDB.
> Sometimes they are not found, and you'll need to enter the IMDB number
> manually. For this I just ALT-TAB to a browser, go to imdb.com, search
> for my movie, and grab the number from the end of the address field.
> 
> I'm not sure where the perl scripts are that grab the IMDB data, if
> you search the docs or the list archives you should find it fairly
> quickly. If you run into issues, I would first check to be sure that
> the paths to the scripts are setup correctly. They worked for me with
> the default paths.
> 
> -- Garry
> 

Well, I did this (the manual imdb search), and had issues.  I grabbed
"tt0327162" from the url and tried it, 0327162 and 327162.  All of
them caused imdb.pl to croak complaining about a concatenation error
on line 214 and 215.  Any ideas?