TV EPG IMDB feature not working (1 Viewer)

[doveman]

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The majority of times I try to get IMDB info for a film using the context menu from TV EPG, it says "No info found". On the occasions it does identify the film, it only gets a picture, the cast and the year, but no synopsis, etc. This would be a really useful feature if it worked, allowing me to see the synopsis and the score to help me decide whether I want to watch a certain film. Considering how well MovingPictures, MyFilms, IMDB+, etc work, maybe the EPG IMDB feature could be made to use the grabbing engine from one of those.

I tested on about 8-9 different films around 01:25-01:27. I think only three films were found and those had the problem as described above.

 

[ltfearme]

Have you tried doing an update of the scrapers in Videos configuration?

 

[doveman]

Have you tried doing an update of the scrapers in Videos configuration?

I do normally do that when I install/update MP but I don't know if I did recently, so I'll try that and see if it helps, thanks.

 

[elliottmc]

https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/mediaportal-1-2-0-beta-540/imdb-lookup-mytv-98559/

I need to mantis this.

Last time this was reported, no dev offered any comments. The trouble is, the devs have real lives and don't have the chance to fix everything. Would be good if a community dev could look into this!

Mark

 

[doveman]

I didn't really expect it to as you've already confirmed this is a bug, but thought I should report that I did try updating the scrapers and it hasn't helped.

 

[elliottmc]

0003807: IMDB search from TV EPG does not work reliably - MediaPortal Bugtracker

 

[tomtj]

Thanks for reporting this elliotmc. I'm new to MP and I was thinking it was something I was doing wrong.