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Any multithreaded system is a lot of work and it is very difficult to make it work good with the current plugin system, so I do not see a quick solution here. I will still keep your suggestion in mind and will take a look at the download performance some time in future.
I look forward to that.I imported 5500 entries from IMDB in a day
I started PVD about 2½ hours ago, and it has now passed 500 entries - in silent mode.
QuoteYea, but silent isnt faster, is it?
In the context of your original question, it's days faster.QuoteI dont think IMDb would care - ive never heard of IMDb ip banning someone.
Perhaps not, but HTTP error 503 occurs regularly. They probably just mean the server is busy, but it could also mean the server is telling you it's busy because it's getting too many requests from you.
Thanks for clarification Rick, I thought Silent Mode was taking the first movie found (!), that's why I was never using it.
In terms of speed, I think the script is very fast or at least fast enough.
Unless you're on 56K of course
QuoteIf there is a way to speed it up, id very much like to get a hint about it
Silent mode.
QuoteA "fix me"-list, for movies that are not recognized 100%
Use a search to display the records not updated by the Silent mode update. Since all of those will require user input, you'll be kept reasonably busy while updating those with Silent mode off.
QuoteMulti threadded IMDB fetching
That's an interesting idea for other reasons (e.g., update speed), but I would be very surprised if IMDb did not ban IP's making multiple simultaneous requests. I'm actually surprised were able to get away with what we are doing.
QuoteWhen importing, i will get a pop-up at every episode.0. Select Help - Check for updates to make sure you have the latest version of the plugin.
Did you do this?
Quotes03e14 to s03e18 and the entire season 4, got not info - rest is loaded the first time. Bug maby?
I've already commented that director and writer data seems to be missing from all episodes. I see also that E14-18 got no screen shots, although they exist on the website. I have no idea whether these would be problems with the plugin, or if the data simply doesn't exist in the archive that's made available to the plugin by the API.
QuoteIf i use silent mode, that will mean, that if it guesses wrong on a movie title - it will name it with a wrong title?
I assume you're changing the topic—this has no bearing on adding episodes or scanning media. Silent mode means no prompts. So, yes, if a plugin needs to resolve an ambiguity in a search, it can't and has to skip the record. If you want update a large number of movies, run the plugin in silent mode. When it's done, use a search, sort or grouping to isolate the one's that were skipped. Turn off silent mode and run the plugin again.
Its not episodes i dont want to see - its episodes that i dont own!
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So what do i do wrong? Must be something.
What you're doing wrong is assuming you understand how the program works or doesn't work or should work, and then not listening to the advice you're being given. I told you before there's a filter for media "owned." With that set, only the episodes that you own would be visible. How can you possibly object to that? It would only take about 1/2 second per season to delete them, but there's no good reason to do that. The information provides a complete history of the series, and might even be used if additional seasons are acquired later.
The other method—as you've discovered—is hopelessly inefficient and a PITA. While it's understandable you would want it to work this way, your inability to accept that it doesn't is not. Considering the recommended method is effective and is always going to be more efficient, it seems very unlikely any development effort will be wasted on improving it.
QuoteScanning the folder adds the episodes with no problem - but again, all seasons are present, which is not wanted.
So you're saying it works perfectly, except that it includes a season that you don't want to see. Rather than select that season and press delete, you'd rather do a completely different way which I've already explained isn't nearly as effective. Yes, you are getting kinda annoying.
Posting a screen shot of an exception notification doesn't tell us anything. If you're concerned about it, use the "send bug report" button.
One small detail Happy2k, kind off stupid but you might have not noticed it:
I have recently used these scripts (Imdb and TVDB) to update series, and I too had the problem of the episode title being displayed as #1.1, #2.2 and so on.
However I had noticed that the episode title was properly displayed in the information card (the list on the left however would still show #1.1, #2.2 etc.)
Restarting pvd made them all appear poperly.
"It adds the entire series - all episodes, even those not present in the folder i just scanned.
Of course. Adding a series has nothing to do with whether or not you have the media. You can delete episodes and entire seasons if you want. But it doesn't make much sense to me not to have a complete record of a series. Filters can be used to display only those that you want to see (e.g., those for which media exists and have not been viewed).
Like adding the first Harry Potter, and then you get all six... get the point? ". theIMDB:
PVD should be able to do a mix of the above! Why cant it automaticly add season 1+2+3 with the correct episode title?
The TVDB plugin was improved recently. The new version should only ask once for the right series title if episodes are selected.
Rick, just so you know, if I select the series record only, the episodes are not getting updated, I have to select the list of episodes to update these.
Using the method you described earlier (creating the series BEFORE scanning files) should solve this I guess, but I was doing it the other way round, scanning first (which would give me the type of list Happy2k has) then scraping the data from imdb.
Now when scraping, however, I was not asked to confirm the series name each time, but I guess this is because the series name is on all my files? (Eureka S01E05.avi for example)
Happy2k, are your files written like this: "S02E05.avi" or with the series name?
In the imdb plugins settings, you have to tick the "episodes" box and also in the "configure" menu, you need to tick "download episodes".
Rick, just so you know, if I select the series record only, the episodes are not getting updated, I have to select the list of episodes to update these.
Using the method you described earlier (creating the series BEFORE scanning files) should solve this I guess, but I was doing it the other way round, scanning first (which would give me the type of list Happy2k has) then scraping the data from imdb.
Now when scraping, however, I was not asked to confirm the series name each time, but I guess this is because the series name is on all my files? (Eureka S01E05.avi for example)
Happy2k, are your files written like this: "S02E05.avi" or with the series name?
In the imdb plugins settings, you have to tick the "episodes" box and also in the "configure" menu, you need to tick "download episodes".
QuoteIt fills in the overall series info fine, but none of the episodes are filled with any info.. why?
Generally—not for TVDb—it would take too long to download all episodes whenever a series is added. So this generally requires two steps. First, add the series. This will add episode records for whatever episodes exist, but will not add the data. So, second, select the episodes you want updated, and run the plugin.
