[mythtv-users] Searching imdb.pl is really slow

AeroPeek aeropeek at gmail.com
Mon Jun 27 14:06:41 UTC 2005


Hey,

I have a 2MBit ADSL connection so I don't think this is the problem... 
Look at this: 

[mythtv at htpc ~]$ time /usr/share/mythtv/mythvideo/scripts/imdb.pl -M "Mallrats"
0113749:Mallrats (1995)

real    0m0.877s
user    0m0.092s
sys     0m0.018s

[mythtv at htpc ~]$ time /usr/share/mythtv/mythvideo/scripts/imdb.pl -P 0113749
http://www.impawards.com/1995/posters/mallrats_ver1.jpg

real    0m1.727s
user    0m0.100s
sys     0m0.013s

[mythtv at htpc ~]$ time wget
http://www.impawards.com/1995/posters/mallrats_ver1.jpg
--17:03:18--  http://www.impawards.com/1995/posters/mallrats_ver1.jpg
           => `mallrats_ver1.jpg'
Resolving www.impawards.com... 216.92.30.49
Connecting to www.impawards.com[216.92.30.49]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 109,183 [image/jpeg]

100%[====================================>] 109,183       96.30K/s

17:03:19 (96.10 KB/s) - `mallrats_ver1.jpg' saved [109,183/109,183]


real    0m1.537s
user    0m0.003s
sys     0m0.009s
[mythtv at htpc ~]$



On 6/27/05, Fedor Pikus <fpikus at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/26/05, AeroPeek <aeropeek at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I'm running MythTV 0.18.1 (frontend and backend) on FC3.
> > When I'm searching for a movie in a command line using the imdb.pl
> > script everything works really fast, for example:
> > As you can see, the total time for searching the movie ID, the data
> > and the poster is less than 4 seconds, but when I'm searching within
> > the frontend the search time can get to 45-60 seconds, and somethims
> > even longer...
> > Doe's anyone ever encountered this problem? any ideas of how fixing it?
> 
> Frontend also downloads the cover art or movie poster, so your
> comparison is not exactly accurate. I have the same long waits. I
> suspect that the delay is on IMDB end, it does not take THAT long to
> shove the jittle jpeg through my cable connection.
> 
> >
> > Thanks!
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> 
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