[mythtv-users] tmdb.pl failing to search for most movie titles

[ken]

Greg Grotsky wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Robert McNamara 
> <robert.mcnamara at gmail.com <mailto:robert.mcnamara at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 1:56 PM, ken <dinoshifty at mailshack.com
>     <mailto:dinoshifty at mailshack.com>> wrote:
>     > Hi
>     >
>     > After updating to 0.22 I am trying to update all video metadata,
>     however
>     > tmdb.pl <http://tmdb.pl/> is failing to find results for
>     approximately 95% of all searches.
>     > It will however fetch metadata if I enter the imdb number manually.
>     > Is anyone else experiencing similar problems.
>     >
>     > Thanks
>     > Ken
>
>     TMDB has been having trouble for the weekend, but the fact that you're
>     able to get info w/ an IMDB # means it's likely your titles are not
>     close enough to the actual film.  Not saying that they are, but if
>     your titles were something like...
>
>     $Title x264 xvid dvd l0l etc. etc.
>
>     Then that's not going to work.  The title field needs to be the actual
>     title of the film.
>
>  
>  
> I've found that tmdb.pl <http://tmdb.pl> finds most of my album 
> infomation... there are a few titles that I have problems with but I 
> use imdb.pl <http://imdb.pl> as a supplement to getting the movie's 
> id.  I'm trying to get my script to work with tmdb.pl <http://tmdb.pl> 
> but with one of my titles (my most favorite DVD) it breaks!  "Use of 
> uninitialized value" error:
>  
> $ /usr/local/share/mythtv/mythvideo/scripts/tmdb.pl <http://tmdb.pl> 
> -D 0092086
> Use of uninitialized value $releasedate in substr at 
> /usr/local/share/mythtv/mythvideo/scripts/tmdb.pl <http://tmdb.pl> 
> line 150.
> Title:¡Three Amigos!
> Director:
> UserRating:0.0
> Writers:
> Cast:
> Genres: Comedy Film
> I haven't looked at the script yet...
>  
> -Greg
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The problems that I had been experiencing must have been related to 
issues on the TMDB website at the time as everything is working as it 
should now.
I am now in the process of updating my entire database using the jamu 
script and is working well.

Ken