IMDB Low Quality Covers
I guess this is directed specifically to pisani who wrote the imdb-bulk-update.pl script.
I just installed Mythdora 10.21 (easy as always) and thought I'd update some of the videos I didn't have metadata for (the rest I ported over from my old installation). The bulk script (v1.14.2) all seems to work ok except for one thing. The covers it downloads are very small and thus low quality. Some are ok though. Running from a command line:
A good one:
http://www.cinemablend.com//images/reviews/1614/_11570590807399.jpg
A not so good one:
http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BNDE5NjQzMDkzOF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwODI3ODI3MQ@@._V1._SX100_SY140_.jpg
The majority are the second lower quality images. All the small low quality ones come from the second server. Is there anyway to force the cinemablend server? It seems the link is coming from the data returned and not explicitly determined by the script itself.
Is this just how it is these days or can we fix it?
Hmmm.. I see that the last
Hmmm.. I see that the last two numbers SX and SY are the resolution. Changing them and a higher quality cover is downloaded.
How do you get it to
How do you get it to download the higher quality images?
Is there a wiki for the imdb bulk lookup script?
When I run it from in Mythdora tools I get a white pop up screen that never does anything.
The only option I have is to close the pop up window.
How do you use the script?
I didn't resolve the
I didn't resolve the problem. The URL for the image is appearing to come from the posters thumbnail and is generated by the website itself. So unless some special regex matching is done and the URL is tweaked I don't know how to make it download better covers.
OT: The script can be set up to run automatically for most situations through the Mythdora tools menu. It runs from the command line. Just execute it with -h and it should display some help.
The low resolution covers
The low resolution covers are a known issue. This is actually caused from the imdb.pl script that my script wraps. In 0.22 imdb.pl is being replaced by tmdb.pl and that script doesn't use imdb.com at all. So the poster resolution should be good. Oddly enough.. I've never noticed an issue in my own collection so I'm not sure what explains the difference.