Have been reading about something called IMdB which I think is supposed to add movie actors & movie ratings to the DigiGuide downloads. My XML2TV downloads are missing this information on all movies.
Does anyone know...
* What the IMdB is?
* Where do I get it?
* How do I use it?
* Is it already part of the XMLTV? I have seen some remarks in the XMLTV BAT file referring to it.
IMdB = Internet Movie Database
It also makes its data available for use under various Ts&Cs but it seems that this osrt of use is fine.
You can download their data by following the links from
http://www.imdb.com/interfaces#plain.
I copied mine from the Germany site.
The files are huge ...
XMLTV2DG supports some of them ... you can download whichever of the set that you want.
actors.list.gz
actresses.list.gz
directors.list.gz
genres.list.gz
ratings.list.gz
(just save them as they are - do not try to open them)
You also need to check that xmltv is being run with a -i parameter ... e.g. if you downloaded the files above into c:\imdb then you would put
-i=c:\imdb
somewhere in your xmltv2dg command line ... I think that there is a comment about it in the shared.bat
It will make XMLTV2DG run very slowly as it prepares to process the data and will use a lot of disk space.