[mythtv-users] Frequent failures in attempting to download art from thetvdb

[Paul Gardiner]

On 25/04/2018 09:22, Greg Oliver wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 3:07 AM, Paul Gardiner <lists at glidos.net 
> <mailto:lists at glidos.net>> wrote:
> 
>     On 23/04/2018 19:00, Paul Gardiner wrote:
> 
>         Hi,
>         I'm noticing more and more often now I cannot download coverart,
>         banners etc from thetvdb. If I try to manually, a list of
>         possible banners is displayed with urls, but blank space where
>         the image should be. In the logs I see "Tried to write <url>,
>         but it appears to be an HTML redirect or corrupt file (filesize
>         0). The urls work in a browser. There seems to be a long-ago
>         fixed bug related to this with themoviedb.
> 
>         I'm using v0.28.2
> 
>         Is anyone else seeing this problem?
> 
> 
>     Can anyone using 0.28.2 report ttvdb artwork download working for
>     them? At least then I know to look somewhere outside mythtv.
> 
> 
>     Cheers,
>              Paul.
> 
> 
> 
> ​https://lists.gt.net/mythtv/users/616983​


Yeah, I know of that discussion: I was part of it. Back a few weeks, a 
few of us didn't have ttvdb.py working at all. Now it is mostly working. 
It's just the downloading of artwork that fails. The download failure 
was happening a lot before I upgraded to 0.28.2, in any case.