[mythtv-users] How to use tmdb.pl with MythVideo/MythWeb

[Andrew Burgess]

On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 12:55 -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:

> In that case, I don't see any reason why it wouldn't work.  If, as 
> mentioned in an earlier post, MythVideo actually calls tmdb.pl -D but 
> passes no inetref, the only guess I can come up with as to why MythVideo 
> is broken is the "M" in your revision number.

It the latest atrpms release, no idea what patches are in it.

> If you've applied some of the patches that Robert McNamara wrote for the 
> metadata grabbing for TV series, etc., then removed them or updated or 
> something, it might have gotten broken.

yeah, looks like it. When I link imdb.pl to tmdb.pl I get a similar
error. It looks like the movieid isn't being sent to the script 

2009-04-07 06:25:43.430 Video Data Query: Executing
"'/usr/share/mythtv/mythvideo/scripts/tmdb.pl' -D " <<<<<<<<< NOTE
2009-04-07 06:25:43.592 Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/mythtv/mythvideo/scripts/tmdb.pl", line 411, in
<module>
    main()
  File "/usr/share/mythtv/mythvideo/scripts/tmdb.pl", line 405, in main
    print metadata_search(options.metadata_search).encode("utf8")
  File "/usr/share/mythtv/mythvideo/scripts/tmdb.pl", line 357, in
metadata_search
    meta = fetch_metadata(imdb_id)
  File "/usr/share/mythtv/mythvideo/scripts/tmdb.pl", line 260, in
fetch_metadata
    movie = imdb_access.get_movie(imdb_id)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/imdb/__init__.py", line 342, in
get_movie
    movieID = self._normalize_movieID(movieID)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/imdb/parser/http/__init__.py",
line 300, in _normalize_movieID
    raise IMDbParserError, 'invalid movieID "%s": %s' % (movieID, e)
imdb._exceptions.IMDbParserError: invalid movieID "": invalid literal
for int() with base 10: ''

I'll cc Axel

> I can say that it's working for others using trunk (including 
> Robert--who has used it with his current patches).
> 
> Also, just to be sure, check your MythVideo grabber command lines 
> settings to make sure they look right (especially the data one--with -D).

Couldn't find those in any setup menu, would that be in the source?