Annoucement: Getting cover art and attributes from IMDB

[chriss]

Hi *,

I added an option to get my movies tagged with IMDB. It's basically working (see pictures attached) but still needs some fine tuning I think.

Cheers,
/chriss

[chriss]

BTW, it's quite slow ATM, see attached log output (50s for 20 IMDB items).

[Zaerc]

Looks good, and 20 in 50s is still a lot faster then I can do manually.

[golgoj4]

how did you get around their tos? or did they open up a new api?

[chriss]

how did you get around their tos? or did they open up a new api?

I just tried the first IMDB PHP library I found (http://sourceforge.net/projects/imdbphp/) and it works well. 

[hari]

cool!

br, Hari

[Zaerc]

If you open a ticket I'll patch it into the 0810 branch so it could be included in the next alpha update.

[totallymaxed]

how did you get around their tos? or did they open up a new api?

I just tried the first IMDB PHP library I found (http://sourceforge.net/projects/imdbphp/) and it works well. 

Very nice! Now if we could also get IMDB used when a DVD is ID'd on insertion into a drive....

Great work.

All the best

Andrew

[tschak909]

Andrew, IMDB does not have this info, and unfortunately DVD fingerprints of the type that the EMI emits are very specific to itself and its endpoint.

This is a much tougher nut to crack than would first appear, especially since almost nobody has this information. If you'd like, I can explain the problem in more detail...

-Thom

[totallymaxed]

Andrew, IMDB does not have this info, and unfortunately DVD fingerprints of the type that the EMI emits are very specific to itself and its endpoint.

This is a much tougher nut to crack than would first appear, especially since almost nobody has this information. If you'd like, I can explain the problem in more detail...

-Thom

Hi Tom,

I understand the DVD fingerprint problem. What I am interested in is the much richer data available from IMDB about each movie. It may be that a hybrid solution is possible where we allow the DVD to be ID'd using the EMI then we use that data to query the IMDB. This would be deliver a massive improvement in the attribute data per DVD.

As far as i can see this is technically feasible. What your view?

All the best

Andrew

[tschak909]

Yes, this could be done, We might want to augment the media identifier stuff to be able to query more than one media identifier.. It seems to only work with a single media identifier device.

*hmm* too much to do.

-Thom

[totallymaxed]

Yes, this could be done, We might want to augment the media identifier stuff to be able to query more than one media identifier.. It seems to only work with a single media identifier device.

*hmm* too much to do.

-Thom

Yeah... just need to add it too the list ;-)

Your already doing more than your share Thom. Anyone else up for looking at this and then getting it into shape if it looks doable?

Andrew

[freymann]

Is there a link to the code that we can download and try?

[tschak909]

Yes, the code is in SVN. You can do a checkout from this URL:

http://svn.linuxmce.org/svn/trunk/ for the current dev sources for 0810
http://svn.linuxmce.org/svn/branches/LinuxMCE-0710 for the 0710 sources.

you'll probably need some help setting it up as the self hosted build no longer works. So contact us in the channel.

-Thom

[chriss]

Is there a link to the code that we can download and try?

Freyman, if you are referring to the IMDB code please be patient. I'm still cleaning up a few things and will prepare a patch soon.