[mythtv-users] Cover downloads from IMDB

[Ashley Bostock]

2008/8/20 Ashley Bostock <abostock at gmail.com>:
> 2008/8/20 Damian <damian at gingermagic.co.uk>:
>> Brian Phillips wrote:
>>> Bobby Gill wrote:
>>>> James, I just glanced at my V poster as well hehe, yeah it's high-res
>>>> too.
>>>>
>>>> Yes another source would be good, maybe movieposter.com or something?
>>>>
>>>> Bob
>>>
>>> If I'm not mistaken, the grabber goes to imdb.com and then goes to the
>>> "posters" page.
>>>
>>> Once on that page it looks for URLs for various sites in a "preference"
>>> order.  IMDB images are the last grabbed (if the previous URLs time out).
>>>
>>>>From line 277 of my imdb.pl there's a comment:
>>>    # look for references to impawards.com posters - they are high quality
>>>
>>> Then if it can't get a poster from that site, it tries "nexbase", then
>>> "cinemablend", then finally imdb.com.
>>>
>>> If all of them fail, it doesn't grab a poster.
>>>
>>> Brian
>>
>> So maybe it's the images on the first search that have changed? Is that
>> impawards.com?
>>
>> Damian
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>
> Looks like imdb have changed their posters page layout. Just edit you
> imdb.pl file (probably located in
> /usr/local/share/mythtv/mythvideo/scripts) and change line 282 from...
>
> my $impsite = parseBetween($response, "<a href=\"".$site, "\">".$site);
>
> ...to...
>
> my $impsite = parseBetween($response, "<a href=\"".$site,
> "\">\(Theatrical Movie Posters\)");
>
>
> That should fix the problem.
> Ash
>

Adding this additional line under 282 is also required for other movies...
$impsite = parseBetween($response, "<a href=\"".$site, "\">\(Internet
Movie Poster Awards") if ($impsite eq "");

...the above should be all on one line (looks like gmail is splitting
it on to two).

Ash