Tomkun Wrote:I also have a few ideas, but have no idea how easy they would be to implement.

The script can already decide if it thinks a game may or may not be a sequel, so based on that, can it not check the number and base the result on that? i.e, if it detects a number in the title, ignore anything that doesn't contain that number, or contains a different number?

Would it not also be possible to check alternate titles? On Mobygames for example, most games alternate titles are listed and very often, they are listed without any sub-title.

I appreciate that neither of these scenarios are perfect and would still have mismatches, but I think there would be fewer than there are now.

By the way malte, I don't want you to think that I am picking holes in your script - this is far and away the best script I use in XBMC currently.

ghostelement Wrote:Have you guys checked out my site? thegamesdb.net

You can scrape from it, and it uses the same API as thetvdb. There are some issues with the database format right now, but I'm getting everything ironed out. I'm shooting for content with maximum quality and accuracy.

grassmunk Wrote:I'm in the chat now and wimpy is the one who made the synopsis site so I'm trying to get ahold of him to see how one would go about scraping from the site.


Edit: Welp, its not recommended to scrape from there (unfortunately). But it would be unfortunate if that information wasn't available to use.

Tomkun Wrote:Perhaps if the gamesdb people talk to the ressurection xtras people, they could work some kind of sharing system out? Would be nice as the ressurection xtras team have obviously worked hard to get as much stuff as possible.

mcborzu Wrote:Can you check out my progress on "The Carmichael", RC2 fixed the view change but while half way thru skinning I can't switch views, an error pops up and I can't figure it out?

git://github.com/bartowski/thecarmichael.git

ghostelement Wrote:Who would I contact from their team? I'm happy to work something out.

malte Wrote:There is another control with id="2" in your includes.xml (a videowindow). When I comment out this control the change view button works again. I need the id 2 because it is defined by XBMC. Would be good if you could change the id in the includes.xml.

BTW: Great skin! Will have a hard time to decide which one to take as default

ghostelement Wrote:Who would I contact from their team? I'm happy to work something out.

wimpy Wrote:I'm the creator of the Xtras synopsis database/site so I guess I'm the one to talk to about this. The database contains information on alot of systems covered by the Xtras team up over the last couple of years.

The site is not 100% scrapable atm, but let me know how I can help out.

On a sidenote; I don't like communities pointing towards two different sites trying to do the same. (read: thegamesdb and the thevideogamesdb in this case). I would be like having two different imdb.com sites doing the same thing and relying on both sites having the same information. I won't indulge in that notion any more than I just did, so I'll just close this sidenote with a "Perhaps you should try to work something out together".