[mythtv-users] imdb problems in 0.17

[Steven]

Johan Heikkilä wrote:

>>>Then I patched imdb.pl with the patch
>>>on the mailing list some time ago. Now it works when I run the script
>>>from the command line (as mythtv user), but it still does not work in
>>>MythTV (with the same parameters).
>>>Any ideas?
>>>      
>>>
>>are you sure myth is running the same (patched) file you are
>>executing at the command line ;)  ?
>>
>>--
>>Anthony Vito
>>anthony.vito at gmail.com
>>    
>>
>
>Thanks for trying to help. Yes I am sure. When I rename the file
>imdb.pl on the frontend Myth complains that it can't find the file. Is
>there a way to debug what's going on?
>
>I have a separate frontend (Running fedora Core 2 and Mythfrontend
>0.17) and a backend with Fedora Core 3, mysql and mythbackend 0.17.
>The video files are located on the backend and mounted with nfs to the
>frontend. Everything works fine except the imdb lookup. I have a very
>slimmed down frontend distribution (~940 MB) but the perl modules
>listed in imdb.pl are installed (obvious when command line is
>working).
>
>This is the result when running from command line (example):
> ./imdb.pl -dM A.I.
># query: 'A.I', options: ''
># request: 'http://www.imdb.com/find?q=A.I;'
>0212720:Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001)
>0192959:Ai (1955)
>0270823:Ai (1962)
>
>When running the search through the frontend it is reporting (verbose)
>2005-03-25 05:14:24.203 Movie Search: Executing
>'/usr/share/mythtv/mythvideo/scritps/imdb.pl -dM A I'
>2005-03-25 05:14:28.030 #query: 'A%20I', options: ''
># request: 'http://imdb.com/find?q=A%20I', options: ''
># no results
>
>2005-03-25 05:14:28.031 GetMovieList returned 0 possible matches
>
>  
>
are you using the same user on the the command line than the one that is 
running myth?
Try it with a movie that doesn't have .'s and or spaces in the title 
(A.I <>A%20I)