[Milhouse]

Does this look right? Am I close?

Yes, that looks fine. You might also want to add "--readonly" which would stop it from trying to download any remote artwork (assuming you have any remote - ie. internet based - artwork urls in your library).

Tips when running mklocal.py for the first time:

#1: Try using a single movie, ie. "texturecache.py jd movies avatar" until you get it working correctly - it saves time
#2: View the output of mklocal.py before running it through "texturecache.py set" (removing the --output argument will cause the change details to be written to the console)
#3: Add --verbose if you don't get the expected results, then try to understand what mklocal.py is doing and maybe why it is failing
#4: Only once you're happy with the proposed changes should you run the changes through "texturecache.py set"
#5: If you still don't get the expected results, upload the full console output to pastebin and paste the url here. The output from "texturecache.py jd ..." would also be useful.

This seems to be an error in the script, but I could be wrong.

Code:

C:\>texturecache.py imdb movies @imdb.fields=plot,plotoutline,votes,rating,top250,runtime,country,genre,director?,writer,year | texturecache.py set

I think this is some sort of cut and paste error - note the "?" after director. When I try your string (copying & pasting directly from the forum) I get the following error in the texturecache.log (which you can enable with @logfile=):

Code:

2015-01-09 15:35:39.671399:MainThread: libMovies.JSON SOCKET REQUEST: [{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "params": {"sort": {"order": "ascending", "method": "title"}, "properties": ["title", "art", "imdbnumber", "plot", "plotoutline", "votes", "rating", "top250", "runtime", "country", "genre", "director\u200b\u200b", "writer", "year"], "limits": {"start": 0, "end": 400}}, "method": "VideoLibrary.GetMovies", "id": "libMovies"}]

Note the unicode rubbish that has been appended to "director".

Clean up your command line, and try again.