[mythtv-users] .23 and language for thetvdb grabber [answered]

[Nicolas Will]

On Sun, 2010-03-28 at 13:41 -0400, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> On 3/28/2010 04:40, Nicolas Will wrote:
> > I am trying to temporarily change the language setting for TheTCDB
> > grabber, from default EN to FR.
> >
> > I used to be able to go to the setting menu with the command lines
> and
> > add "-l fr".
> >
> > This possibility has disappeared. I can select the grabber type, but
> not
> > edit its command line.
> >    
> 
> MythVideo now has a statically defined grabber format, so you can no 
> longer edit each individual command line.  Part of that specification 
> states that all grabbers must accept a '-l <lang>' input, even if it 
> just gets ignored.  The language sent to the grabber is defined by
> the 
> language specified for the frontend.  If you want to change the
> language 
> use by the grabbers, you must change that used by the entire rest of
> the 
> frontend.
> 
> Note that grabbers may fall back to using English if there is no data 
> available in your specified language for the requested video. 

Many thanks. I temporarily changed the global language, grabbed the
French stuff, and went back to English.

Nico