[mythtv-users] MythVideo IMDB lookup fails (Myth0.13, Debianunstable)

[Tim Harvey]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-
> bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Mottishaw
> Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2004 12:47 AM
> To: 'Discussion about mythtv'
> Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] MythVideo IMDB lookup fails
> (Myth0.13,Debianunstable)
> 
> You truly are a god :) thx again... Works like a charm (against cvs).
> 
> On another note, now that searching works, can I "complain" about it?
> hehe

yes of course... otherwise things wouldn't improve.  Constructive
feedback is always welcome :)  

> 
> A couple search examples
> 
> 1. Scratch (0143861) my file is called "Scratch - The Movie.avi" and
it
> comes up with no results
> 2. Jackass (0322802) my file is called "Jackass The Movie CD1.avi" and
> it comes up with no results
> 3. any movie with something like dvdrip.xvid at the end comes up with
> nothing..
> 
> Is it possible that if it came up with no results it could try more
> generic queries.. the first word or two for example.

What's happening here is that doing a search with those titles shows
only 'approximate matches' from imdb.com.  Goto www.imdb.com and enter
in those titles exactly and you'll see what I mean.  They changed the
search results a bit and I only choose to grab 'exact matches' and
'partial matches'.  I will look at making it smarter or perhaps also
grabbing the 'approximat matches', but I'll wait until I've moved the
search into a perl script.  I'm hoping to submit this patch for review
tonight or tomorrow.

Incidentally, in the examples you gave it's the 'The Movie' in the first
example and the 'CD1' in the 2nd that really blows your search for you.
Those words really are not part of the title of those movies.  If you
place this 'non title' information within '()'s those words will be
stripped from the search and your problem should be solved:

Scratch (The Movie).avi
Jackass The Movie (CD1).avi
('the movie' really is part of that one's title, just not 'CD1')

I make a point to put any comments etc that are not part of the title in
()'s in all my movie filenames.  It also tends to make them more
readable when your just staring at a directory listing.

I have quite a collection of movies (I won't even say how many) so I
will tweak the searching in my next patch by ranking/rating the search
results so that matches are more intelligent or at least more probable
matches are at the top of the list.  Currently by the way, if there is
only 1 match returned by IMDB, you don't even get a selection list... it
just takes that as the match.

Tim

> 
> jeff
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Tim Harvey
> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 10:39 PM
> To: 'Discussion about mythtv'
> Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] MythVideo IMDB lookup fails (Myth
> 0.13,Debianunstable)
> 
> 
> 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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