The latest IMDB site redesign seems to have partially broken Mythvideo's metadata lookup. Picture, title, year and user ratings are okay, but now director, plot, rating & runtime are no longer being populated.

Anyone else having this problem?

yup... unfortunately... this is true I am also having the same problems

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Which version are you running? I'm at R5C7.

I'm on R5E50

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I'm running R5D1 + 0.20 and have noticed the same problem. I took a shot at changing the imdb.pl script and have most of the information showing up, but I am by no means a Perl programmer so the following may cause permanent damage to your database! Use at your own risk, and be sure to backup the original script. My updated version of imdb.pl can be found here www.tbf-investments.com/imdb.pl (on my R5D1 systems it is found in /usr/share/mythtv/mythvideo/scripts) and my changes follow lines that start with "#+#"

I know of 1 issue with this script - It does not reliably get the Runtime value. If anyone here knows Perl and can parse the following, that would certainly be helpful (this is only one example, IMDB may be providing varying output):

The IMDB site is redesigned which causes these lookups to break. I read here:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/254076

that they're working on it. Alternatives are presented here as well. The one that seemed safest to me is to edit the imdb.pl script and change www.imdb.com references to former.imdb.com. This will only work temporarily, but there might be a imdb.pl update before the former.imdb.com site is gone.

Here are fixes:

This fixes the imdb redesign breakage:
http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/browser/trun ... format=raw

This is a patch I came up with to fix the runtime grab problem noted above, you may use it to patch the above script:
http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/attachment/t ... format=raw

Thanks for the links Russ, much appreciated!

How do you install and run patches?

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Great to know that there is a fix. I downloaded the imdb.pl file. But what do I do with it now? lol

It doesn't come with any instructions, and I don't want to bork anything up.

thanks in advance.

just replace your imdb.pl file and make sure you run chmod +x imdb.pl so it can run

Thats kinda what I figured, but where in the heck is it located?

You can do a locate imdb.pl to find it. Mine was in /usr/share/mythtv/mythvideo/scripts on R5C1.

Thank you very much, that did the trick.

Thanks!

Here the script didn't need to be patched, or patch was already applied.