Comments on: Updated imdb.pl for getting hi-res movie posters

By: colin

colin — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:17:52 +0000

@J personally I have stopped using this script and now use the one from http://code.google.com/p/fill-mythvideo-metadata/ - it’s far superior.

By: J

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:30:13 +0000

pretty good, one issue, the director field is no longer working

By: anon

anon — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:43:11 +0000

Thank you! I updated my imdb.pl getMoviePoster subroutine with your code and it can now get movie posters from impawards.com.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Wed, 27 May 2009 00:33:29 +0000

another thing I’m noticing now after using this script for a while. if you try to d/l the poster of a movie not on http://www.impawards.com it throws an error, and downloads a crappy resolution from imdb. anyway to just skip the error? and/or d/l a higher res from imdb?

By: Dennis

Dennis — Tue, 26 May 2009 23:49:56 +0000

is there a way to select which poster it grabs from http://www.impawards.com?
they have some really nice posters, but it always just grabs the first on listed, some movies have multiple posters and sometimes i want a different looking one. thanks for the great tweak tho!
I love it!

By: colin

colin — Tue, 26 May 2009 12:18:55 +0000

@ Thomas it should still work… at least I have been using it without issue but I will check again next time I’m in front of my backend.

Have you checked your log files for anything suspicious when searching for meta data?

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 26 May 2009 11:50:22 +0000

Hi, just updated my imdb.pl script with the one from your blog. I’m still not getting Hi-res covers when fetching from IMDB. Doesn’t it work any more?

By: colin

colin — Tue, 12 May 2009 08:14:12 +0000

@Uzair The rating issue seems to be apparent in the IMDB script supplied with MythTV too. I’ll check it out when I get a moment. As for the “misses the move” issue - the script will only download data / display options for a move that is returned from an IMDB search based on the video’s filename. If your movie is named incorrectly or IMDB can’t find a match then you get the option to enter an IMDB number directly. I’m not sure there’s is much that can be done about this.

Thanks the comments.

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 12 May 2009 07:22:54 +0000

Thank you so much for this! I’m building my own mythbox and really wasn’t impressed with the script for getting posters. The quality sucked! I haven’t tried the script yet but will shortly.

By: Uzair

Uzair — Tue, 05 May 2009 02:35:03 +0000

Thanks but this needs updating. It does not pull all data. Misses on user ratings, and sometime totally misses the movie and one has to supply the imdb # to pull the data.