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brian.phillips at gmx

Aug 7, 2008, 8:53 AM

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Anyone else having recent troubles with imdb-bulk-update.pl?

My imdb.pl was hanging and I couldn't figure out why. It would just sit
there getting info for several different movies (some worked, some didn't).
Here's an example of the hang:

bdogg[at]atv:~/imdbupdater$ ./imdb-bulk-update.pl -Host 192.168.0.101 -N
============================================================================
=
Searching for IMDB movieID for 1006_20071222180000.mpg
============================================================================
=
Searching for IMDB movieID for bourne_supremacy.iso

^C
bdogg[at]atv:~/imdbupdater$

So I tried doing it with a single movie using just imdb.pl. It grabbed the
data just fine, but when I tried to grab the movie poster it hung as well.

bdogg[at]atv:~/imdbupdater$ /usr/share/mythtv/mythvideo/scripts/imdb.pl -d -P
0372183
# looking for movie id: '0372183'
# request: 'http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372183/posters'
# found nexbase poster page:
http://nexbase.net/photo-gallery/BourneSupremacy%2CThe/BOURNE_5

^C
bdogg[at]atv:~/imdbupdater$

So I went into imdb-bulk-update.pl and commented out line 517 (a call to
"covergrab()") so it wouldn't try and grab the poster file and just grab the
data. It then grabbed all the movies it was hanging on (this hang happened
to several movies). It grabbed the data only though so I'll have to get the
image files manually.

My versions are:
bdogg[at]atv:~/imdbupdater$ /usr/share/mythtv/mythvideo/scripts/imdb.pl -v
IMDB Query (v1.3.4) by Tim Harvey, Andrei Rjeousski

And imdb-bulk-update.pl is version 1.12.

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brian.phillips at gmx

Aug 7, 2008, 8:55 AM

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Re: Anyone else having recent troubles with imdb-bulk-update.pl? [In reply to]

Brian Phillips wrote:
> My imdb.pl was hanging and I couldn't figure out why. It would just
> sit there getting info for several different movies (some worked,
> some didn't). Here's an example of the hang:

I should mention some movies that worked and some that didn't.

Worked:
Oceans Eleven (2001)
Oceans Thirteen
Bourne Identity
Bourne Ultimatum

Didn't work:
Oceans Twelve
Bourne Supremacy

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i.adore.my.64 at gmail

Aug 7, 2008, 11:07 AM

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Re: Anyone else having recent troubles with imdb-bulk-update.pl? [In reply to]

2008/8/7 Brian Phillips <brian.phillips[at]gmx.net>:
> Brian Phillips wrote:
>> My imdb.pl was hanging and I couldn't figure out why. It would just
>> sit there getting info for several different movies (some worked,
>> some didn't). Here's an example of the hang:
>
> I should mention some movies that worked and some that didn't.
>
> Worked:
> Oceans Eleven (2001)
> Oceans Thirteen
> Bourne Identity
> Bourne Ultimatum
>
> Didn't work:
> Oceans Twelve
> Bourne Supremacy

How long did it hang? I know that I've often tried to retrieve imdb
movie details, and it will sometimes fail to get the poster, but only
after a minute or two of hanging there. It looks locked up, but
always comes back in time. Later attempts to get the data again are
often successful - but not always.

Cheers.

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