[mythtv-users] Problems with jamu video metadata grabber script

[Robert McNamara]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Greg <greg12866 at nycap.rr.com> wrote:
> On 06/15/2011 07:14 PM, Julius Roberts wrote:
>> On 16 June 2011 00:44, Greg<greg12866 at nycap.rr.com>  wrote:
>>>> I am also unable to add the metadata by hitting M in mythvideo; it
>>>> just doesn't add the metadata it, it's as if the video can't be found
>>>> on the internets.
>>>>
>>> I don't think you need Jamu for adding videos to your collection.. Once
>>> you have the video copied to your SG,bring up your frontend,then open
>>> Media Library, watch videos and browse to where you copied the
>>> video..Then hit the "M" key and choose "Scan for Changes" the new video
>>> should now be present.. Now you highlight your video and press the "W"
>>> key and if you have named the video properly it will download the
>>> metadata for the video...
>> Yes, what you have described is how it should operate when it's
>> working.  The issue i have is that it's not working :)
>>
> Then you should make sure you are running the correct version of python
> (mine is 2.6.6-2 using ubuntu).
> Also you should look in your log for any clues.. There was similar
> conversation on IRC today..This persons problem turned out to be a
> corrupt database..I would check your database health first,then logs...

And to call it out, the user had used an external script (not JAMU) to
do scanning and metadata update, but it had just inserted a bunch of
garbage into the database which prevented metadata grabbing from
working properly.  It appears the script in question wasn't equipped
to handle the XML returned by our grabbers, but it sure as heck tried,
and thus the DB was full of a bunch of raw XML.

Greg is right, to be able to go further we'd want to see a complete
(from frontend startup on) logs of the frontend... highlight an item,
INFO->Change Video Details->Retrieve Details, let it finish, and
produce logs.  Odds are on an old copy of the bindings being installed
or an old copy of the scripts being installed.

JAMU I'm less help with, I don't do python and JAMU is deprecated for
MythVideo purposes.

Robert