Maybe I'm the only one noticing this, but it seems the latest daily SVN builds are having scraper issues. The first build I compiled on or about Jan 8th indexed all my movies without issue (using IMDB). However, the latest build that I compiled (Jan 18) couldn't find about half of my movies, and manually renaming was no help. Maybe I'm doing something differenly this time, but damned if I know what it is.
Edit: Also, tv show information is pretty bad, too. I had to use 3 different scrapers to index my shows, and it still couldn't find House...
I believe that the IMDB scraper has been disabled/removed and the new default scraper for movies is themoviedb.org. I found that in the Set Content, that it was set to none, so I had to manually change it movies and then select themoviedb.org as the scraper. It picked up all my movies except for a couple Abbott & Costeello ones that I had to create NFO's for until I can add them to the database on the site.
I will have a look at this as i think this may be the fix for my issue
http://www.xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=43856
Well in part but the largest part.
If this works, sorry xbmc team, i did search for the answer but this was posted while i was typing my update :-)
yep that fixed it. using TMDb and all is well.
Yes, I'd been using TMdb, but I find it to be much less useful/complete than IMDB. I don't suppose anyone would be willing to point out how to reenable it in the source code? I searched, but couldn't find anything specific.
[Edit: Never mind. It's been pointed out to me that the code was just commented out. Easy fix.]
fasteddy Wrote:Yes, I'd been using TMdb, but I find it to be much less useful/complete than IMDB. I don't suppose anyone would be willing to point out how to reenable it in the source code? I searched, but couldn't find anything specific.
If you create NFOs containg a IMDB link in every movie folder, the scraper will work again. (magic)
It's an easy fix. Have a look at what changed in system\scrapers\video\imdb.xml
I had to restore /usr/share/xbmc/system/scrapers/video/imdb.xml from 8.10 to use the imdb scraper again.
tim_wang Wrote:I had to restore /usr/share/xbmc/system/scrapers/video/imdb.xml from 8.10 to use the imdb scraper again.
Well, as I noted above, you just need to uncomment the xml files.
Excuse me if I sound off here, but why exactly was the IMDB scraper disabled in the first place?
hikaricore Wrote:Excuse me if I sound off here, but why exactly was the IMDB scraper disabled in the first place?
legal issues, there are some other threads you might want to read.
Ah I hadn't seen any other threads besides this one when I noticed it the other day.
I've looked through them now and see what the problem is.