[mythtv-users] Cover downloads from IMDB

[Brian Sanders]

So I just found this thread, and applied the patch this morning.  It did
actually fix a few problems, but it seems Transformers is still low quality
compared to the others.  Anyone else seen this specific title look any
better?

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 6:23 PM, Bobby Gill <bobbygill at rogers.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Damian <damian at gingermagic.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Bobby Gill wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 7:34 AM, Ashley Bostock <abostock at gmail.com
>> > <mailto:abostock at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> >     2008/8/20 Ashley Bostock <abostock at gmail.com
>> >     <mailto:abostock at gmail.com>>:
>> >      > 2008/8/20 Ashley Bostock <abostock at gmail.com
>> >     <mailto:abostock at gmail.com>>:
>> >      >> 2008/8/20 Damian <damian at gingermagic.co.uk
>> >     <mailto: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
>> >     <http://movieposter.com> or something?
>> >      >>>>>
>> >      >>>>> Bob
>> >      >>>>
>> >      >>>> If I'm not mistaken, the grabber goes to imdb.com
>> >     <http://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
>> >     <http://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 <http://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 <http://impawards.com>?
>> >      >>>
>> >      >>> Damian
>> >      >>> _______________________________________________
>> >      >>> mythtv-users mailing list
>> >      >>> mythtv-users at mythtv.org <mailto:mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>> >      >>> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>> >      >>>
>> >      >>
>> >      >> 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
>> >     _______________________________________________
>> >     mythtv-users mailing list
>> >     mythtv-users at mythtv.org <mailto:mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>> >     http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>> >
>> >
>> > 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
>>
>> I'm very happy that there's a fix so quickly! Thanks!
>>
>> Out of interest, does anyone know how long it would take for this to
>> filter through into the Mythbuntu weekly fixes branch (is the clue in
>> the name of the branch??)? If it'll be there in a week or so, then I'll
>> let the updates fix it for me. If not, I'll dive in myself but I'm
>> scared to break something or do something that Mythbuntu doesn't expect.
>> Yes, I know I'm sounding like a wussy-geek, but the family is upset
>> every time I break Myth of a few days/weeks/months.
>>
>> Damian
>> _______________________________________________
>> mythtv-users mailing list
>> mythtv-users at mythtv.org
>> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>>
>
> Damian,
>
> Upto you, if it's not urgent just hang on until hopefully Ashley's fix has
> been included, otherwise I've uploaded the imdb.pl script right from my
> /usr/share/mythtv/mythvideo/scripts if you'd like. If you're on Ubuntu it
> should go into that path or perhaps
> /usr/local/share/mythtv/mythvideo/scripts. It's gotta be
> "/mythtv/mythvideo/scripts" at end of path either way. Just pop the script
> in there and make sure you clear youre ~/.mythtv/mythvideo/   folder of any
> .jpg's (all previous posters). Then go to the video manager and try grabbing
> the metadata again and check the posters, they should come in right.
>
> bobgill.net/imdb.tgz
>
> Bob
>
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-users mailing list
> mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>
>


-- 
"Faithless is he, who says 'farewell', when the path darkens
"you just keep on trying till you run out of cake"
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/attachments/20080821/8f272a6e/attachment.htm