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savyna · 2009-03-29, 18:58

Hi all,

I used IMDB under Set Content to scrape movie information. It was hopelessly inaccurate even though I had patiently gone through all my movies and renamed them exactly as they appear on IMDB. Wrong thumbs, wrong artwork etc. I would say that 60% was accurate and the rest not.

From searching through the forums, the consensus seems to be that tmdb is the best scraper going. However, I don't have this as an option in my Set Content menu. IMDB is the default and it has a number of other options but not TMDB.

i have run updates on the XBMC Atlantis (bf1) and the Launcher 2.3 from the Downloads menu. I am running the XBMC on the Apple TV. How can I get TMDB as an option?

Please help. There was an earlier thread on this by Gary from the UK (I'm in the UK too), but it was unresolved.

**spiff** · 2009-03-29, 19:46

tmdb is not available in that build.

you can grab the scraper from http://trac.xbmc.org/browser/branches/li...o/tmdb.xml but no guarantee that it does not use features that isn't available in your version

beforeseven · 2009-03-29, 19:54

You can also upgrade your version using the builds available here: http://xbmcsvnosx.blogspot.com/

I always found the IMDB scraper to be extremely accurate though, so I would suggest your problem lies elsewhere, probably with the naming of your files/folders.

savyna · 2009-03-29, 20:55

Thanks Spiff,

Now for what should be a very dumb question for you: I downloaded tmdb.xml from your link and double clicked on it. It gave me some sort of a game called 'Big Bang 4 In a Row'. Now very confused. What should I be doing?

**spiff** · 2009-03-29, 21:15

you copy it to the directory where the other scrapers are....

savyna · 2009-03-30, 10:33

spiff Wrote:you copy it to the directory where the other scrapers are....

Since the xml is on my Mac and the other folders are on my Apple TV, how do I do this? Some sort of Terminal function?

savyna · 2009-03-30, 10:38

beforeseven,

I downloaded aTV Helper v1.1b from your link and tried to install it. It asked me for the ATV IP address which I provided. It then opened up a terminal which at one point asked for a frontrow password. I entered the password 'frontrow' upon which the program shut down. There was no reboot of the ATV happening as stated in the readme.

Please help.