[mythtv-users] Cover downloads from IMDB

Damian damian at gingermagic.co.uk
Wed Aug 20 09:01:08 UTC 2008


Brian Phillips wrote:
> Bobby Gill wrote:
>> James, I just glanced at my V poster as well hehe, yeah it's high-res
>> too. 
>>
>> Yes another source would be good, maybe movieposter.com or something?
>>
>> Bob
> 
> If I'm not mistaken, the grabber goes to imdb.com and then goes to the
> "posters" page.
> 
> Once on that page it looks for URLs for various sites in a "preference"
> order.  IMDB images are the last grabbed (if the previous URLs time out).
> 
>>From line 277 of my imdb.pl there's a comment:
>    # look for references to impawards.com posters - they are high quality
> 
> Then if it can't get a poster from that site, it tries "nexbase", then
> "cinemablend", then finally imdb.com.
> 
> If all of them fail, it doesn't grab a poster.
> 
> Brian

So maybe it's the images on the first search that have changed? Is that 
impawards.com?

Damian


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