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English => Support => Topic started by: JVD on July 23, 2011, 10:10:06 pm

Title: moviemeter script
Post by: JVD on July 23, 2011, 10:10:06 pm

As IMDB is missing a lot of images, or the quality is rather poor I wandered if it is possible to change the moviemeter plug-in so it also imports the image used there.
It wouldn't be that difficult. When the URL you download the info from is : http://www.moviemeter.nl/film/50207
the image can be found on http://www.moviemeter.nl/images/covers/50000/50207.jpg.
The image URL always start with 'http://www.moviemeter.nl/images/covers/' followed by the thousands of the last part of the page URL + '/' + last part of page URL + '.jpg'

Can this be incorporated in the plug-in.

Thanks in advance.

Title: Re: moviemeter script
Post by: rick.ca on July 23, 2011, 11:17:59 pm

I haven't checked many, but the posters at MovieMeter seem to be 200 pixels wide—not of much use other than as a thumbnail. Although still not great, the IMDb plugin should normally get one considerably better (right now, it seems to be broken). That's probably not relevant to you if MovieMeter is your primary source. But you should be able to get a much better quality poster using some other source...

MovieMeter:
(http://www.moviemeter.nl/images/covers/50000/50207.jpg)

IMDb:
(http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTk1NTE2MzgyMF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNzIyNzM2MQ@@._V1._SX350_SY500_.jpg)

TMDb:
(http://cf1.imgobject.com/posters/4ab/4d8188827b9aa128890004ab/the-cutting-edge-3-chasing-the-dream-original.jpg)

Title: Re: moviemeter script
Post by: JVD on July 24, 2011, 08:47:34 am

It is not my preferable option. But the older movies at imdb are mostly unclear or don't have images at all.

Title: Re: moviemeter script
Post by: rick.ca on July 24, 2011, 09:31:38 am

I wasn't recommending IMDb for posters. There are better sources than either MovieMeter or IMDb. But if MovieMeter has poster that generally cannot be found elsewhere, perhaps you could provide examples.

Title: Re: moviemeter script
Post by: JVD on August 05, 2011, 05:53:26 am

Here are a few examples
First i give the imdb URL and then the moviemeter URL

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112802/
http://www.moviemeter.nl/film/29617

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0936468/
http://www.moviemeter.nl/film/49262

And I think in percentages, the movies on moviemeter hasn't got an image in imdb at about more then 30%

With kind regards

Title: Re: moviemeter script
Post by: rick.ca on August 05, 2011, 07:19:06 am

Dard Divorce illustrates my point...

MovieMeter
(http://www.moviemeter.nl/images/covers/49000/49262.jpg)

Amazon DE
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51xvaOU6ezL._S300S500_.jpg)

And there's an even better one at MoTech Posters (http://www.motechposters.com/title/dard-divorce-2007-v/), that would have to be added manually.

Perhaps Dare to Love illustrates yours—MovieMeter has posters not available elsewhere. They're poor quality, but better than nothing.

But I note both of these are bad direct-to-video movies. The fact MovieMeter may have bad posters to go with them doesn't make a strong case for updating the plugin. I'm sure that doesn't mean nostra won't do so when he has time, or the plugin needs to be updated for some other reason. You're right, modifying it do so should not be difficult. But I wouldn't expect it to be considered a high priority.