[mythtv-users] Anyone else having recent troubles with imdb-bulk-update.pl?

Brian Phillips brian.phillips at gmx.net
Thu Aug 7 15:53:56 UTC 2008


My imdb.pl was hanging and I couldn't figure out why.  It would just sit
there getting info for several different movies (some worked, some didn't).
Here's an example of the hang:

bdogg at atv:~/imdbupdater$ ./imdb-bulk-update.pl -Host 192.168.0.101 -N
============================================================================
=
Searching for IMDB movieID for 1006_20071222180000.mpg
============================================================================
=
Searching for IMDB movieID for bourne_supremacy.iso

^C
bdogg at atv:~/imdbupdater$


So I tried doing it with a single movie using just imdb.pl.  It grabbed the
data just fine, but when I tried to grab the movie poster it hung as well.


bdogg at atv:~/imdbupdater$ /usr/share/mythtv/mythvideo/scripts/imdb.pl -d -P
0372183
# looking for movie id: '0372183'
# request: 'http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372183/posters'
# found nexbase poster page:
http://nexbase.net/photo-gallery/BourneSupremacy%2CThe/BOURNE_5

^C
bdogg at atv:~/imdbupdater$


So I went into imdb-bulk-update.pl and commented out line 517 (a call to
"covergrab()") so it wouldn't try and grab the poster file and just grab the
data.  It then grabbed all the movies it was hanging on (this hang happened
to several movies).  It grabbed the data only though so I'll have to get the
image files manually.

My versions are:
bdogg at atv:~/imdbupdater$ /usr/share/mythtv/mythvideo/scripts/imdb.pl -v
IMDB Query (v1.3.4) by Tim Harvey, Andrei Rjeousski

And imdb-bulk-update.pl is version 1.12.



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