[mythtv-users] IMDB lookup fails in MythWeb 0.21

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Mar 17, 2008, at 5:39 PM, Johnny Russ wrote:

> I am running MythTV 0.21 in Ubuntu. I love all of the improvements in
> MythWeb. When I am in the videos section of MythWeb I can see all of  
> my
> videos. There are buttons on each video for 'edit' and 'IMDB'. The  
> edit
> button seems to work fine. When I click on the IMDB button a little
> green box pops up very briefly saying '1 request pending'. But nothing
> happens other than that. There are no errors in my apache logs. I have
> tried it in IE7 and firefox. I have also tried it in Vista, XP, and
> Ubuntu, and each got the same result. The IMDB button calls a  
> javascript
> function 'imdb_lookup'. I can do IMDB lookups from the MythTV frontend
> and from the command line using the imdb.pl script. However, being  
> able
> to do it from MythWeb would be the most convenient way in my setup.  
> Any
> ideas what my problem might be?

Check your mythweb video settings.
http://<yourip>/mythweb/settings/video

Path to imdb.pl on this webserver:
This needs to point to imdp.pl that apache can read/execute

-Brad