[mythtv-users] Mythvideo (metadata)

[Greg Oliver]

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Robert McNamara
<robert.mcnamara at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Jos Hoekstra <joshoekstra at gmx.net> wrote:
>>  Op 11-10-2010 15:50, Tom Gerrard schreef:
>>>>
>>>> My metadata downloads have stopped working for some reason. I have been
>>>> running trunk for several years, and have always been able to work out my
>>>> problems,but this one has me stumped..
>>>>  I started noticing that some rips I did of the TV series The Unit
>>>> wouldn't
>>>> work and the frontend log showed that no results were found.. I naming
>>>> scheme The Unit s01e01.mkv
>>>> 2010-10-09 16:39:03.687 Running Grabber:
>>>> /usr/local/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/ttvdb.py -l en -M The Unit
>>>> 2010-10-09 16:39:04.438 No results found for The Unit 1 1
>>>
>>> For what it's worth I seem to have the same problem, after updating
>>> from the JYA trunk repo to the mythbuntu nightly trunk builds a few
>>> days ago (to fix the generation of screenshots on recordings).  The
>>> command written to the log does work correctly when run by hand,
>>> however a LAN trace does not show it accessing the internet when I hit
>>> the 'W' key.  I had a quick browse through the code and can't see any
>>> way of troubleshooting further without modifying metadatadownload.cpp
>>> &  compiling from source.
>>>
>>> My software versions are the same as yours, did you have any luck fixing
>>> it?
>>>
>>> Tom
>>
>> Got the exact same problem using the last trunk-build here, there doesn't
>> seem to be a file at the location specified so I downloaded tmdb.py which
>> seems to work in it self but not when called form mythfrontend.
>>
>> Using it via frontend gives this:
>> 2010-10-11 16:45:15.155 Running Grabber:
>> /usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Movie/tmdb.py -l nl -M spider
>> 2010-10-11 16:45:16.582 No results found for spider 0 0
>>
>> Manually:
>> /usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Movie/tmdb.py -l nl -M spider
>> 9613:Spider (2002)
>> 40039:Spiders (2000)
>> and so on....
>
> This is output from old python bindings.  Current bindings and
> metadata scripts output XML, and MythVideo will detect no results
> without properly installed bindings.  As I mentioned earlier in this
> thread, this appears to be a pervasive issue with Ubuntu and
> Ubuntu-derived packages.  I believe this issue is caused by having
> both an old and a current copy of the bindings installed on the
> system, the older being picked up first.
>

The latest mythbuntu did not install either of the grabbers - I
grabbed them both from cvs..  It also does not have the mythpython
file mentioned.  Using the grabbers from cvs appears to work although
it is my test system, so not as much use..

-Greg