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<blockquote data-quote="dir" data-source="post: 1007957" data-attributes="member: 24485">When I browse the movie trailer lists in the iTunes section of OnlineVideos, many (most) of the videos don't have a description of the movie.&nbsp; They usually all have name, date of release, certification, genre, directors, and actors, but only about 10% have a description.&nbsp;I assume this may be because the website changes quite often and the scraper can't get it, but rather than worry about that, it would be great if I could tell OLV to get the meta data from IMDB or themoviedb or rotten tomatoes or somewhere.&nbsp;Obviously this functionality would only be useful for movies, and not all Online Videos are movies.&nbsp; But the trailers browsing facility seems to have really been stripped away from back when the Trailers plugin existed - there's no ability to have it display wallpaper/background images or retrieve additional/missing artwork and meta data. &nbsp;I used to really enjoy wasting an hour just browsing and watching movie trailers within MP, but the ease with which this could be done previously seems to have been eroded away, with no ability to download additional/missing artwork and text.&nbsp; Trailers are technically &quot;online videos&quot;, but they should be handled as a special case so that this rich experience isn't sacrificed.&nbsp;Perhaps this is a request that needs to be pointed to Latest Media Handler or Fanart Handler, though niether of those handle retrieving additional/missing text.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="dir, post: 1007957, member: 24485"] When I browse the movie trailer lists in the iTunes section of OnlineVideos, many (most) of the videos don't have a description of the movie. They usually all have name, date of release, certification, genre, directors, and actors, but only about 10% have a description. I assume this may be because the website changes quite often and the scraper can't get it, but rather than worry about that, it would be great if I could tell OLV to get the meta data from IMDB or themoviedb or rotten tomatoes or somewhere. Obviously this functionality would only be useful for movies, and not all Online Videos are movies. But the trailers browsing facility seems to have really been stripped away from back when the Trailers plugin existed - there's no ability to have it display wallpaper/background images or retrieve additional/missing artwork and meta data. I used to really enjoy wasting an hour just browsing and watching movie trailers within MP, but the ease with which this could be done previously seems to have been eroded away, with no ability to download additional/missing artwork and text. Trailers are technically "online videos", but they should be handled as a special case so that this rich experience isn't sacrificed. Perhaps this is a request that needs to be pointed to Latest Media Handler or Fanart Handler, though niether of those handle retrieving additional/missing text. [/QUOTE]

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