[mythtv-users] Cover downloads from IMDB

Bobby Gill bobbygill at rogers.com
Wed Aug 20 18:18:28 UTC 2008


On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 7:34 AM, Ashley Bostock <abostock at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2008/8/20 Ashley Bostock <abostock at gmail.com>:
> > 2008/8/20 Ashley Bostock <abostock at gmail.com>:
> >> 2008/8/20 Damian <damian at gingermagic.co.uk>:
> >>> Brian Phillips wrote:
> >>>> Bobby Gill wrote:
> >>>>> James, I just glanced at my V poster as well hehe, yeah it's high-res
> >>>>> too.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Yes another source would be good, maybe movieposter.com or
> something?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Bob
> >>>>
> >>>> If I'm not mistaken, the grabber goes to imdb.com and then goes to
> the
> >>>> "posters" page.
> >>>>
> >>>> Once on that page it looks for URLs for various sites in a
> "preference"
> >>>> order.  IMDB images are the last grabbed (if the previous URLs time
> out).
> >>>>
> >>>>>From line 277 of my imdb.pl there's a comment:
> >>>>    # look for references to impawards.com posters - they are high
> quality
> >>>>
> >>>> Then if it can't get a poster from that site, it tries "nexbase", then
> >>>> "cinemablend", then finally imdb.com.
> >>>>
> >>>> If all of them fail, it doesn't grab a poster.
> >>>>
> >>>> Brian
> >>>
> >>> So maybe it's the images on the first search that have changed? Is that
> >>> impawards.com?
> >>>
> >>> Damian
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> >>
> >> Looks like imdb have changed their posters page layout. Just edit you
> >> imdb.pl file (probably located in
> >> /usr/local/share/mythtv/mythvideo/scripts) and change line 282 from...
> >>
> >> my $impsite = parseBetween($response, "<a href=\"".$site, "\">".$site);
> >>
> >> ...to...
> >>
> >> my $impsite = parseBetween($response, "<a href=\"".$site,
> >> "\">\(Theatrical Movie Posters\)");
> >>
> >>
> >> That should fix the problem.
> >> Ash
> >>
> >
> > Adding this additional line under 282 is also required for other
> movies...
> > $impsite = parseBetween($response, "<a href=\"".$site, "\">\(Internet
> > Movie Poster Awards") if ($impsite eq "");
> >
> > ...the above should be all on one line (looks like gmail is splitting
> > it on to two).
> >
> > Ash
> >
>
> Patch (imdb.pl.patchv2) is attached to this ticket...
> http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/5633
>
> Ash
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Fantastic Ashley, it works! Thanks so much! Just had to rm * from
~/.mythtv/MythVideo and redownload 'em, they're coming in nice and high
quality now.

Thanks!
Bob
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