[mythtv] XMLTV with imdb

[Florian Winterstein]

Ok, but can you select movies to record by category right now?

On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 20:26:53 +0100
Torbjörn Jansson <torbjorn.jansson at mbox200.swipnet.se> wrote:

> You can use tv_imdb already.
> 
> Just configure the tv grabber and download the xml file, then just process
> the xml file with tv_imdb and you will get a new file that you can send to
> mythfilldatabase.
> I use a smal shell script that looks something like this:
> 
> tv_grab_sn --days 14 --output file1.xml
> tv_imdb --imdbdir /the/dir --output file2.xml file1.xml
> mythfilldatabase --file 1 -1 file2.xml
> 
> I know I coud probably use pipes, but its good to have the files incase
> tv_imdb fails.
> Before tv_imdb will work you have to download and create the imdb database,
> this takes a realy long time on my athlonxp 1600+ with 256Mb memory, it eats
> loads of memory in the last stage.
> I tried tv_imdb on my windows computer and the tv_imdb process used around
> 700Mb 
> 
> The problem with mythtv and tv_imdb is that mythtv uses only the first
> category in the xml file and that one is usualy not very usefull.
> So I think mythtv needs to support multiple categories.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org 
> > [mailto:mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Florian 
> > Winterstein
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 7:43 PM
> > To: mythtv-dev at mythtv.org
> > Subject: [mythtv] XMLTV with imdb
> > 
> > I just saw the IMDB plug-in for XMLTV. I was thinking about 
> > adding adding support for it to mythtv.
> > This would for example allow a more sophisticated program 
> > finder for genre or IMDB user ranking.
> > Has anybody information about the quality of tv_imdb.
> > Any opinions?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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