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2009-06-25, 10:04
If you are using Ember or anything else to get trailers from TMDB can we please all start adding trailers to it from youtube. Its a community site and at the moment theres a staggering amount of movies without trailers linked to them.
It honestly takes about a minute to find a trailer on youtube, preview it for quality, find the coresponding tmdb page and add it, you dont need to be a member of tmdb or anything to add trailers, its really simple!
This will help everyone that uses the site, emm, mips (when it has the function) and xbmc in general (who knows, they may add native trailer options themselves when tmdb has a decent enough collection of them)
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Also please add trailers of good quality and official ones.
Most of the popular movies do have trailers now.
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There is a ticket open for additional trailer sites but there is no guarantee with these sites that the trailer will stay up or have the same URL over a period of time.
Youtube clips never change, that's why they are standard. Now with HD capabilities I don't really see any reason to use other sites.
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2009-06-26, 05:51
(This post was last modified: 2009-06-26, 05:55 by garvani.)
Have to wait for zagtome to reply about the ability to add trailers from sites other than youtube to tmdb. At the moment you cant. But if the videos hosted on other sites were flv's or mp4s then there is hope. Youtube has a large amount of trailers and most are in good quality.
It would be fantastic if tmdb could pull the trailer off youtube and host it itself instead of linking it but they prolly go through enough bandwidth a month with out hosting 10mb trailers for each and every movie they have! In the meantime, if a trailer is broken it only takes one person, 2 minutes to find a new link and add it to tmdb.
Theres a couple of other sites that can be used for getting trailers but they arnt that great. The main thing with other sites is they are not easily searchable for EMM, MIP or even xbmc. They have to be searchable via imdb number for a 100% guarantee of getting the right trailer.
We should all be supporting tmdb anyway, its an awesome site, so could we all help out and make it the place for trailers! I have personally added 30+ trailers, and will add more over the weekend.
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Is there a benefit to TMDB over IMDB? There are tons of scrapers and I just use IMDB b/c it's the only one I've heard of before. The same goes for TV shows and music, is one better than the other?
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scraper is awesome, thanks guys
I'm loving the trailer links being added automatically, but. . .
is there a way to update the existing library so the scraper only "adds" the trailers??
I know I can rescrape my entire library, but I changed so many fanart pics and thumbs, it would be a pain to do all that over
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2009-09-14, 19:09
(This post was last modified: 2009-09-14, 19:16 by stacked.)
We probably should find another source for trailers. dtrailer.com is great but it isn't so reliable. Their trailers are bad quality and the stream speeds for the trailers are slow (15-30KB/s). The only thing they're good for is that they have a huge database of trailers for old and new movies. Does anyone know of a better alternative?
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