[enkil]

Hello,

The IMDB scraper is no longer parsing movie informations for me. If I refresh the movie information for, e.g. "Rambo" (which it parsed just fine a few weeks ago), it is querying IMDB but it doesn't parse any information from IMDB (cover is empty, plot is empty, everything is empty). The only information I get is the path to the file.

SVN Revision: 18334 (VDPAU-branch)
Distribution: Gentoo
Architecture: x86
Install method: Gentoo ebuild
debug.log: http://pastebin.com/f2c0732b7

On some movies, it doesn't even find the right page at IMDB. For example, I downloaded the 1080p trailer for Quantum of Solace and saved it in a folder "Quantum.Of.Solace.1080p" . The scraper is unable to find any information on IMDB at all. XBMC asks me to manually specify the movie name. If I add a Movie.nfo with the IMDB-url in it, I get the same behaviour as with Rambo.

Edit: See my post #5 for the relation to a curl-update

[vladi]

same issue here on gentoo amd64 here is my log as well. http://pastebin.com/m67ed1c99

[volenin]

If I'm not mistaken, the access to IMDB is no longer provided since it violates IMDB copyright policy. I guess the IMDB is still listed as an 'information source' in that menu, but don't think it does anything now. I might be wrong though...

Vlad

[mkortstiege]

The IMDb scraper was re-enabled and seems to be working fine.
Both flicks are getting scraped correctly here using a 32bit Ubuntu installation. You guys are using some kind of Proxy service?

[enkil]

I'm not using any proxies. The TMDB and TVDB scrapers are working fine for me, for some reason it's just the IMDB scraper.
If I use the scrap.exe tool in the svn-repo and run it through wine like that:

Code:

wine scrap.exe imdb.xml "Quantum.Of.Solace"

GetSearchResults returns a proper list of movies and GetDetails seems fine, too. The only error the scrap.exe gives me is this:

Code:

GetMoviePlot returned :
Error: Unable to parse GetMoviePlot.xml

Any idea what I could try to help track down the issue?

Edit: I was going through my logs and noticed that I updated to curl-7.19.4 a couple of days ago. I downgraded to curl-7.19.3 and recompiled xbmc. The IMDB scraper is working again with this old version of curl. However, curl-7.19.3 has a vulnerability and is therefor no longer available through gentoo's default package repositories, see: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20090303.html
Should I open a ticket on trac to report a bug with xbmc and curl-7.19.4?

[mkortstiege]

Scrap.exe is known not to be working correctly as its completely unmaintained. There are some curl related fixes that hit svn lately. Mind trying those before posting a new bug report?

[enkil]

The curl-related patches haven't been committed to the vdpau-branch yet. I'll wait for motd2k to merge linuxport into the vdpau-branch and see if this solves the issues.

Edit: motd2k has merged in a revision of linuxport with the curl-related fixes. Seems to be working again with curl-7.19.4!