[mythtv-users] Anyone working on a Movie Trailers plugin? Considering writting one

[Michael Knoll]

How can this script be used within MythTV?  Is there an area to enter
in the movie you want?  Is it to get the trailer for a movie you have
in the mythvideo section?

I think I'm going to work on a more browsable trailer plugin.  One
that mines the list of avaliable trailers, and allows you to browse
and play them.  Make it extensible to handle any of these trailers
sites.

I was thinking of using MythNews as a skeleton for this, any other ideas?

Mike

On 6/19/05, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> Michael Knoll wrote:
> 
> >I've been considering writting a movie trailers plugin for MythTV.  I
> >noticed on http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/NewVersion there's items in
> >the change log for movie trailers, but I don't see any such feature in
> >MythTV .18.  Am I missing it and about to work on something that's
> >already been done?
> >
> >
> There's now a script in contrib called trailer.pl.  It goes to the Apple
> website and searches for trailers.  Works pretty well, although there's
> some room for improvement.  (I tried to download 109 trailers using IMDB
> numbers pulled from the database and got 78 of them with the script.  I
> was able to manually download 20 of them, several of which were missed
> due to small differences in Apple's pages.  The rest seem to be
> unavailable from Apple.)
> 
> By default the script simply outputs the URL, but there are a couple
> lines at the end that can be uncommented to have the script download the
> video (and name it using the IMDB number).
> 
> Mike
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