Revision as of 20:27, 4 April 2009

What is tmdb.pl

This perl script is intended to perform movie data lookups based on the themoviedb.org website.

Downloading tmdb.pl

If you're using MythTV 0.21-fixes, tmdb.pl does not ship with MythTV, so you will need to download the script (as a non-root user in a normal directory, such as the user's HOME directory). Do so by copying/pasting the following commands directly into a terminal window:

install -d tmdb/MythTV &&
pushd tmdb &&
svn cat http://svn.mythtv.org/svn/trunk/mythplugins/mythvideo/mythvideo/scripts/tmdb.pl > tmdb.pl &&
echo "Successfully downloaded tmdb.pl." &&
svn cat http://svn.mythtv.org/svn/trunk/mythplugins/mythvideo/mythvideo/scripts/MythTV/MythVideoCommon.pm > MythTV/MythVideoCommon.pm &&
echo "Successfully downloaded MythVideoCommon.pm." &&
chmod 755 ./tmdb.pl ./MythTV/MythVideoCommon.pm &&
popd

Installing tmdb.pl

The MythVideo scripts are typically installed in /usr/share/mythtv/mythvideo/scripts/ or /usr/local/share/mythtv/scripts/. The following code assumes they are installed in one of those two directories. If not, adjust the SCRIPTDIR as appropriate (and skip the if conditional that tries to set it automatically). To use the code below, copy/paste the following commands directly into the same terminal window you used for downloading the script, above:

if [ -d /usr/share/mythtv/mythvideo/scripts ]; then
  SCRIPTDIR=/usr/share/mythtv/mythvideo/scripts
elif [ -d /usr/local/share/mythtv/mythvideo/scripts ]; then
  SCRIPTDIR=/usr/local/share/mythtv/mythvideo/scripts
else
  echo "Unable to find script directory.  Please install tmdb.pl manually."
fi 
sudo cp -Rv tmdb/* ${SCRIPTDIR} &&
if [ -e ${SCRIPTDIR}/tmdb.pl ]; then
  echo "Successfully installed tmdb.pl script to:"
  echo "  ${SCRIPTDIR}"
  if [ -e ${SCRIPTDIR}/imdb.pl ]; then
    sudo mv ${SCRIPTDIR}/imdb.pl{,-orig}
  fi 
  sudo ln -s tmdb.pl ${SCRIPTDIR}/imdb.pl &&
  if [ -L ${SCRIPTDIR}/imdb.pl ]; then
    echo "Successfully configured MythVideo and MythWeb to use tmdb.pl."
  else
    echo "Unable to configure MythVideo and MythWeb to use tmdb.pl."
    echo "Please create a symlink called imdb.pl that refers to tmdb.pl in"
    echo "  ${SCRIPTDIR}"
  fi 
else
  echo "Unable to install tmdb.pl script.  Please install tmdb.pl manually."
fi
unset SCRIPTDIR

When you're done with the temporary copy made when downloading the scripts, you may delete the tmdb directory:

rm -r tmdb