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<blockquote data-quote="RoChess" data-source="post: 1028396" data-attributes="member: 18896">IMDb.com makes constant changes to their website. If you take a look at the changelogs I maintain for IMDb+ it is pretty much a nightmare. Everything still works for IMDb+, but perhaps the default imdb scraper broke down again from a recent 'update'.&nbsp;Once a movie gets imported with a scraper-script a permanent link is created, so that any refresh of movie data is done by that one. For this reason there is the &quot;Force IMDb+&quot; option inside the IMDb+ plugin, so you can ensure that all movies use IMDb.com for their info (provided they have an IMDb tt-ID reference).&nbsp;If you indeed adjusted everything to use MySQL or MS-SQL, then you have a robust multi-user compatible setup. SQLite while easier to program for is not as robust. It can still be perfect for multi-user usage, but it has to be properly coded, every 'write' query needs to be anticipating that the data might be locked by another client, and such security checks are not in place, causing data to then corrupt. The workarounds currently in use via 3rd party plugins work well though, and MediaPortal2 was (re)written with multi-user in mind.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RoChess, post: 1028396, member: 18896"] IMDb.com makes constant changes to their website. If you take a look at the changelogs I maintain for IMDb+ it is pretty much a nightmare. Everything still works for IMDb+, but perhaps the default imdb scraper broke down again from a recent 'update'. Once a movie gets imported with a scraper-script a permanent link is created, so that any refresh of movie data is done by that one. For this reason there is the "Force IMDb+" option inside the IMDb+ plugin, so you can ensure that all movies use IMDb.com for their info (provided they have an IMDb tt-ID reference). If you indeed adjusted everything to use MySQL or MS-SQL, then you have a robust multi-user compatible setup. SQLite while easier to program for is not as robust. It can still be perfect for multi-user usage, but it has to be properly coded, every 'write' query needs to be anticipating that the data might be locked by another client, and such security checks are not in place, causing data to then corrupt. The workarounds currently in use via 3rd party plugins work well though, and MediaPortal2 was (re)written with multi-user in mind. [/QUOTE]

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