Faster alternative to MovieDB?
DaSal
Junior Member Posts: 30 Joined: Sep 2008 Reputation: 0 |
2009-09-29 16:54
Post: #1
Does anybody know of a faster alternative to themoviedb.com? As much as I like the site, for some reason it's incredibly slow for me. Looking up and downloading the fan art for a single movie can take around 2 minutes just because it takes ages to load at every step.
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vdrfan
Team-XBMC Developer Posts: 2,787 Joined: Jan 2008 Reputation: 7 Location: Germany |
2009-09-29 19:45
Post: #2
There's no alternative afaik.
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mason
Senior Member Joined: Sep 2008 Reputation: 0 Location: Germany |
2009-09-30 14:55
Post: #3
there is a solution, why dont you donate a few bux towards travisbelle since he is struggling keeping this thing alive as a one person show with a lot of traffic since xbmc got popular
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fekker
Posting Freak Joined: Oct 2008 Reputation: 30 |
2009-10-02 23:16
Post: #4
themoviedb is pretty much the only site with the amount of information and availability via a quick and easy to use api that's out there.
He's got information on how to donate on the site. ![]() XBMC Flicks - Netflix for XBMC http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=87552 XBMC Guide for adding Movies/Media Universal Media Manager - http://universalmc.sourceforge.net/ Media Info Plus -(old product) http://sourceforge.net/projects/movieinfoplus/ |
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shaitanfree
Junior Member Joined: Feb 2008 Reputation: 0 |
2009-10-14 09:13
Post: #5
Try our new Scraper, very speed and there are thousands Fanarts in our database.
More information http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?p=4...post418203
(This post was last modified: 2009-10-14 09:20 by shaitanfree.)
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szsori
TheTVDB.com Admin Joined: Aug 2006 Reputation: 1 Location: Milwaukee, WI |
2009-10-27 07:31
Post: #6
As a note, if anyone is disappointed with the speed of a scraper, donating is generally the solution. Bandwidth costs money, and sites that XBMC use end up needing a LOT of bandwidth. Alternative sites will pop up, but they'll face the same issues in a short amount of time if they become popular. They also spread community support out, which means the best content is often spread across multiple sites. Instead of constantly switching sources, just pick the one that suits your needs best and then support it.
EDIT: Don't click my link below based on this... if you read this and want to donate, give it to MovieDB. Contribute to TheTVDB.com - The Online TV Database |
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