[mythtv-users] MythVideo IMDB lookup fails (Myth 0.13, Debianunstable)

[Tim Harvey]

I posted a patch that fixes this against current CVS.  If anyone has a
clean 0.13 source perhaps they could verify that the patch works against
it as well (it should).  The patch is posted here:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/archive/MythTV_C2/Dev_F10/%5BPATCH%5D_IM
DB_search_fix_for_MythVideo_P101869/

Tim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-
> bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Tim Harvey
> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 8:32 PM
> To: 'Discussion about mythtv'
> Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] MythVideo IMDB lookup fails (Myth
> 0.13,Debianunstable)
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-
> > bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Isaac Richards
> > Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 7:20 PM
> > To: Discussion about mythtv
> > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MythVideo IMDB lookup fails (Myth
> > 0.13,Debianunstable)
> >
> > On Thursday 15 January 2004 10:08 pm, Tim Harvey wrote:
> > > I'll take a look at this as I was the one that submitted the patch
> to
> > > enable redirects.  I know that occasionally IMDB changes its
format
> > > which causes the need for a fix... perhaps that occurred.  My
entire
> > > patch never got applied for some reason, perhaps that is the
problem
> as
> > > well.  The rest of the patch added some ranking logic that (for me
> > > anyway) made the searches a lot more successful.
> >
> > Did I not apply all of it?  Hmm..  Got a url for the bits I didn't?
> >
> > Isaac
> 
> You patched the change I made to allow detection/following of
redirects,
> but I think you were holding off on the ranking changes I made because
a
> release was pending or something.
> 
> Both patches are at:
>
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/perl/mailarc/gforum.cgi?post=85557;searc
>
h_string=More%20accurate%2Franked%20IMDB%20searches;guest=2044688&t=sear
> ch_engine#85557
> 
> I'm pretty sure the ranking one needs to be reworked because of the
new
> keybindings system (I was using different key's to implement two
> different search methods).  I should probably instead make the
selection
> based on a database setting or something.
> 
> At any rate, I'll re-post the patch after I get the chance to fix
> whatever is currently wrong with the IMDB lookups.  I just reinstalled
> my system to FC1 linux and am currently trying to come up to speed on
> creating packages.  I would like to be able to package the dev builds
I
> do off of CVS so that I can install/remove them easily to change
> versions.  Is there any documentation on this?  Perhaps there is an
> easier approach.
> 
> Tim
> 
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