[mythtv-users] Cover downloads from IMDB

Damian damian at gingermagic.co.uk
Wed Aug 20 20:39:27 UTC 2008


Bobby Gill wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 7:34 AM, Ashley Bostock <abostock at gmail.com 
> <mailto:abostock at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     2008/8/20 Ashley Bostock <abostock at gmail.com
>     <mailto:abostock at gmail.com>>:
>      > 2008/8/20 Ashley Bostock <abostock at gmail.com
>     <mailto:abostock at gmail.com>>:
>      >> 2008/8/20 Damian <damian at gingermagic.co.uk
>     <mailto: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
>     <http://movieposter.com> or something?
>      >>>>>
>      >>>>> Bob
>      >>>>
>      >>>> If I'm not mistaken, the grabber goes to imdb.com
>     <http://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
>     <http://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 <http://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 <http://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
>      >
> 
>     Patch (imdb.pl.patchv2) is attached to this ticket...
>     http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/5633
> 
>     Ash
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> 
> Fantastic Ashley, it works! Thanks so much! Just had to rm * from 
> ~/.mythtv/MythVideo and redownload 'em, they're coming in nice and high 
> quality now.
> 
> Thanks!
> Bob

I'm very happy that there's a fix so quickly! Thanks!

Out of interest, does anyone know how long it would take for this to 
filter through into the Mythbuntu weekly fixes branch (is the clue in 
the name of the branch??)? If it'll be there in a week or so, then I'll 
let the updates fix it for me. If not, I'll dive in myself but I'm 
scared to break something or do something that Mythbuntu doesn't expect. 
Yes, I know I'm sounding like a wussy-geek, but the family is upset 
every time I break Myth of a few days/weeks/months.

Damian


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