2010-01-15, 05:02
Therms Wrote:I posted a solution for this a few posts before yours. My Apple Trailer Downloader script can be set to run as a scheduled task in windows or a cron job in Linux.
It will download trailers at whatever resolution you desire, only download new trailers, only download trailers since a certain date, all sorts of stuff like that.
Then you just set HTE to use the local scraper instead of the Apple scraper.
Yes, thanks so much for that
I had seen your script, and planned to get stuck into using it but only once I had established that the reason why apple's trailers were no longer streaming nicely wasn't down to some problem with my internet connection.
It's really frustrating - they used to stream flawlessly. Anyone have any insight into what's going on at Apple's end and if/when they'll get they're act together?
Anyway in light of the other situation I have a few Q's.
First for Nuka: If the apple streaming situ stays as it is, what are the trailer DL plans for the HTE script?
Second for Therms:
i) Is the rolling update feature working in your script yet? If not, for now will we need to manually change the "mdate" or "tdate" setting every so often to always get the newest trailers?
ii) Does the "downlimit" parameter only govern how many trailers are downloaded each time, or the total size of the /trailers folder? Ie. do we have to manually delete watched trailers for now?
iii) Any chance you could share a sample .bat file for your script that can be run as a scheduled task in Windows?
Thanks you so so much to both of you (and everyone else involved in HTE's greatness!) I was really sad when the trailers started buffering into hell, but now thanks to your efforts I am so happy that I can be up and running again