[mythtv-users] Frequent failures in attempting to download art from thetvdb

[Ashu Desai]

On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 11:14 AM Paul Gardiner <lists at glidos.net> wrote:

> On 28/04/2018 16:47, Ashu Desai wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 1:01 PM Paul Gardiner <lists at glidos.net
> > <mailto:lists at glidos.net>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi,
> >     I'm noticing more and more often now I cannot download coverart,
> >     banners
> >     etc from thetvdb. If I try to manually, a list of possible banners is
> >     displayed with urls, but blank space where the image should be. In
> the
> >     logs I see "Tried to write <url>, but it appears to be an HTML
> redirect
> >     or corrupt file (filesize 0). The urls work in a browser. There
> >     seems to
> >     be a long-ago fixed bug related to this with themoviedb.
> >
> >     I'm using v0.28.2
> >
> >     Is anyone else seeing this problem?
> >
> >
> > I apologize if you already solved this - but i just had the same problem
> > on my 0.29 and I am on CentOS 7. I found out that my default - the  tvdb
> > api was NOT installed. When I go to mythfrontend / artwork - it shows
> > tmdb for the movies as one of the source but nothing for TV or for Games.
> >
> > Since I don't care for games, I didn't really research for it - but I
> > found this link:
> >
> > https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/TheTVDB_API_v2
> >
> > I had to install python-pip, then do an upgrade like the link says. And
> > then
> >
> > pip install --tvdb-api
> >
> > That fixed it for *me*
> >
> >
> > IF you are seeing the same issue of "no" source for TV - this should
> help.
>
> Yes, doing exactly that has sorted out tv metadata for several people,
> but the problem I'm reporting in this thread, is failure to download the
> banners etc, after an initial successful fetch of the metadata. Are you
> now able to download artwork for many of the tv series you have. Only a
> very few work for me.
>
>
Sorry - I don't have that issue - since I don't record TV shows - my
backend is a VM and unable to get my tuner card to work with a VM (maybe a
USB or IP based one would be better?)
But not going to hijack your thread. Sorry for the wrong answer...


> Just to make it clear again: I can fetch metadata, the metadata has
> correct artwork urls, but mythfrontend fails to download from those urls.
>
> Cheers,
>         Paul.
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