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<blockquote data-quote="RoChess" data-source="post: 816209" data-attributes="member: 18896">Re: AW: FilmInfo+ - A german movie details scraper with auto groupingI'm originally Dutch myself, and have visited Germany on many occasions in the Hanover and Bielefeld regions as a kid, even got some classes at school for it, but I've never felt comfortable with German language to be fluent. Think it was because as a kid I was super excited to watch big Hollywood movies on German TV (well before Dutch TV would air them) to realize there was no English audio for me to use and everything was dubbed. Still I can get the gist of it and then indeed use Google Translate to do the rest.&nbsp; English however I was drawn too at a very early age and started disabling Dutch subtitles around age of 12 via TeleText feature (we're talking 80ties here) for any English spoken content.As for IMDb+ now doing German, it was never meant to ruin the awesome work that Merlyn has done with his FilmInfo+ scraper, but it didn't feel right adding support for all the other IMDb+ languages and then leave German out on purpose due to FilmInfo+. I think they actually can co-exist very well together because I'll never add the automatic system that Merlyn created and there are obvious negative effects to doing it manually. The IMDb+ plugin that distributes everything automatic does help a lot and allows more flexibility as well.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RoChess, post: 816209, member: 18896"] [b]Re: AW: FilmInfo+ - A german movie details scraper with auto grouping[/b] I'm originally Dutch myself, and have visited Germany on many occasions in the Hanover and Bielefeld regions as a kid, even got some classes at school for it, but I've never felt comfortable with German language to be fluent. Think it was because as a kid I was super excited to watch big Hollywood movies on German TV (well before Dutch TV would air them) to realize there was no English audio for me to use and everything was dubbed. Still I can get the gist of it and then indeed use Google Translate to do the rest. English however I was drawn too at a very early age and started disabling Dutch subtitles around age of 12 via TeleText feature (we're talking 80ties here) for any English spoken content. As for IMDb+ now doing German, it was never meant to ruin the awesome work that Merlyn has done with his FilmInfo+ scraper, but it didn't feel right adding support for all the other IMDb+ languages and then leave German out on purpose due to FilmInfo+. I think they actually can co-exist very well together because I'll never add the automatic system that Merlyn created and there are obvious negative effects to doing it manually. The IMDb+ plugin that distributes everything automatic does help a lot and allows more flexibility as well. [/QUOTE]

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