[mythtv-users] movie grabber

[jam at tigger.ws]

> On 21 May 2020, at 12:44 am, Roland Ernst <rcrernst at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 7:00 AM Blue <jam at tigger.ws> wrote:
> Hi
> this is a non trivia; question around the guts of metagraber on 31.
> 
> I have been playing lots to get an osx frontend working, I’ve built an ubuntu backend machine, built from source and downloaded the mythtv packages.
> I’ve also built for opensuse-Tumbleweed and downloaded packman builds.
> 
> During this, because some metadata is populated, download DID work but my current testing, even when I delete metadata and i->change video detail->retrieve deta, failes with a failed message immediatly.
> 
> Running the grabber from CL gives a nice xml dump that looks correct including art url that works.
> I’ve looked at the code, but it is too hard for me to follow.
> 
> How can I trouble shoot? In particalar some thing is causing ‘return with ok=false’ immediatly. 
> Thanks
> James
> 
> PS 
> i->change video detail->retrieve deta does not log any activity
> but scan does a mythmetadata grab and I see bla bla movie DATE
> 
> When I run that grab from CL it fails, without DATE it succeeds
> 
> 
> A few questions:
> Do you use the frontend running osx or opensuse to grab metadata?

Just tried thanks a million, I can live with this

OSX frontend does not work.
SuSE frontend does work

> Did you configure the frontend build for python2 or python3?

python 3.8 (as is the SuSE build)

> What does the following command return on the frontend:
> {{{
> head -n1 /usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/ttvdb.py
> }}}
> Substitute the path to your needs.

[sandypit] /home/jam [1000]% /usr/local/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/ttvdb.py
Usage: ttvdb.py usage: ttvdb -hdruviomMPFBDS [parameters]
 <series name or 'series and season number' or 'series and season number and episode number'>

For details on using ttvdb with Mythvideo see the ttvdb wiki page at:
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Ttvdb.py

ttvdb.py: error: ! No series or series season episode supplied

[sandypit] /home/jam [1001]% /usr/local/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/ttvdb.py -t
Everything appears to be in order

> Is the following code snippet taken from
> "mythtv/programs/mythmetadatalookup/main.cpp:71"
> compiled in?
> {{{
> #ifdef Q_OS_MAC
>     QString path = QCoreApplication::applicationDirPath();
>     setenv("PYTHONPATH",
>            QString("%1/../Resources/lib/python2.6/site-packages:%2")
>            .arg(path)
>            .arg(QProcessEnvironment::systemEnvironment().value("PYTHONPATH"))
>            .toUtf8().constData(), 1);
> #endif
> }}}

I'll need to do some spelinking
<quote>
	• Q_OS_MACOS is defined when you are on an macOS system.
Note: Q_WS_MAC is no longer defined in Qt 5.
</quote>

It may be Q_OS_MAC worked before 5.14 but no longer does

> You may find similar occurrences in
> "mythtv/programs/mythfrontend/main.cpp:1872"
> and
> "mythtv/programs/mythbackend/main.cpp:99"
> 
>           QString("%1/../Resources/lib/python2.6/site-packages:%2")

Thanks, you've given me lots, now I'll be active
James