Foreign Cover Art

[FidgetyRat]

Lately, alot of the DVDs I import are getting foreign covers, ranging from italian, to russian, etc.

I didn't see anywhere in BMT to set a default language. Am I missing something or is this just going to always happen?

Kind of funny at first, but now just getting annoying.

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by FidgetyRat

Lately, alot of the DVDs I import are getting foreign covers, ranging from italian, to russian, etc.

I didn't see anywhere in BMT to set a default language. Am I missing something or is this just going to always happen?

Kind of funny at first, but now just getting annoying.

BMT doesn't allow you to change the language for themoviedb, so it just uses "en" for english. What I'd do, is check to see what the fanart looks like on themoviedb, and see if it's matching what you are seeing in bmt. Also, if you post some move names, I can do more testing on those specific movies.

[FidgetyRat]

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you, was away for the weekend.


In my current collection, the following movies are foreign covers.

1) The boy in the striped pijamas (Looks like italian)
2) She's out of my league (Possibly russian?)
3) The soloist (Italian again)

The others seem ok. I tried re-importing these, but same effect. Next I'll just try deleting the covers from the server and then trying again. What is odd, is that in the past these covers were fine. I changed hard drives and had to do a re-import, so I started over with BMT and this second time is when the foreign versions showed up.

[Fuzzy]

Originally Posted by FidgetyRat

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you, was away for the weekend.


In my current collection, the following movies are foreign covers.

1) The boy in the striped pijamas (Looks like italian)
2) She's out of my league (Possibly russian?)
3) The soloist (Italian again)

The others seem ok. I tried re-importing these, but same effect. Next I'll just try deleting the covers from the server and then trying again. What is odd, is that in the past these covers were fine. I changed hard drives and had to do a re-import, so I started over with BMT and this second time is when the foreign versions showed up.

Super old thread, I know, but was this bug ever addressed? I still get a ton of foreign language posters from tmdb (more of a problem now that tmdb is the primary metadata source).

[Fuzzy]

It looks like, after perusing the code and the tmdb api, that even though you request the english metadata, the results still include all available fanart. I think you then have to only download the posters that have iso_639_1="en".

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by Fuzzy

It looks like, after perusing the code and the tmdb api, that even though you request the english metadata, the results still include all available fanart. I think you then have to only download the posters that have iso_639_1="en".

Whenever i look at the results coming back, I rarely see any language tag on the images.

<image type="poster" url="http://d3gtl9l2a4fn1j.cloudfront.net/t/p/w92/uLGaJ9FgPWf7EUgwjp9RTmHemw8.jpg" size="thumb" width="92" height="138" id="4ea5d65f9dc3d83c3b0009eb"/>
<image type="poster" url="http://d3gtl9l2a4fn1j.cloudfront.net/t/p/w154/uLGaJ9FgPWf7EUgwjp9RTmHemw8.jpg" size="w154" width="154" height="231" id="4ea5d65f9dc3d83c3b0009eb"/>
<image type="poster" url="http://d3gtl9l2a4fn1j.cloudfront.net/t/p/w185/uLGaJ9FgPWf7EUgwjp9RTmHemw8.jpg" size="cover" width="185" height="278" id="4ea5d65f9dc3d83c3b0009eb"/>
<image type="poster" url="http://d3gtl9l2a4fn1j.cloudfront.net/t/p/w342/uLGaJ9FgPWf7EUgwjp9RTmHemw8.jpg" size="w342" width="342" height="513" id="4ea5d65f9dc3d83c3b0009eb"/>
<image type="poster" url="http://d3gtl9l2a4fn1j.cloudfront.net/t/p/w500/uLGaJ9FgPWf7EUgwjp9RTmHemw8.jpg" size="mid" width="500" height="750" id="4ea5d65f9dc3d83c3b0009eb"/>
<image type="poster" url="http://d3gtl9l2a4fn1j.cloudfront.net/t/p/original/uLGaJ9FgPWf7EUgwjp9RTmHemw8.jpg" size="original" width="1000" height="1500" id="4ea5d65f9dc3d83c3b0009eb"/>
<image type="poster" url="http://d3gtl9l2a4fn1j.cloudfront.net/t/p/w92/4CCteRB3QkmPWebLMfEfMxfHpEJ.jpg" size="thumb" width="92" height="135" id="50927c7e19c29502cc000510"/>
<image type="poster" url="http://d3gtl9l2a4fn1j.cloudfront.net/t/p/w154/4CCteRB3QkmPWebLMfEfMxfHpEJ.jpg" size="w154" width="154" height="227" id="50927c7e19c29502cc000510"/>
<image type="poster" url="http://d3gtl9l2a4fn1j.cloudfront.net/t/p/w185/4CCteRB3QkmPWebLMfEfMxfHpEJ.jpg" size="cover" width="185" height="272" id="50927c7e19c29502cc000510"/>
<image type="poster" url="http://d3gtl9l2a4fn1j.cloudfront.net/t/p/w342/4CCteRB3QkmPWebLMfEfMxfHpEJ.jpg" size="w342" width="342" height="503" id="50927c7e19c29502cc000510"/>
<image type="poster" url="http://d3gtl9l2a4fn1j.cloudfront.net/t/p/w500/4CCteRB3QkmPWebLMfEfMxfHpEJ.jpg" size="mid" width="500" height="736" id="50927c7e19c29502cc000510"/>
<image type="poster" url="http://d3gtl9l2a4fn1j.cloudfront.net/t/p/original/4CCteRB3QkmPWebLMfEfMxfHpEJ.jpg" size="original" width="1000" height="1471" id="50927c7e19c29502cc000510"/>
<image type="poster" url="http://d3gtl9l2a4fn1j.cloudfront.net/t/p/w92/fVxG2moTyJ8KWWztZrZNAK0ya03.jpg" size="thumb" width="92" height="135" id="508a405a760ee355b70005a4"/>
<image type="poster" url="http://d3gtl9l2a4fn1j.cloudfront.net/t/p/w154/fVxG2moTyJ8KWWztZrZNAK0ya03.jpg" size="w154" width="154" height="227" id="508a405a760ee355b70005a4"/>
<image type="poster" url="http://d3gtl9l2a4fn1j.cloudfront.net/t/p/w185/fVxG2moTyJ8KWWztZrZNAK0ya03.jpg" size="cover" width="185" height="272" id="508a405a760ee355b70005a4"/>
<image type="poster" url="http://d3gtl9l2a4fn1j.cloudfront.net/t/p/w342/fVxG2moTyJ8KWWztZrZNAK0ya03.jpg" size="w342" width="342" height="503" id="508a405a760ee355b70005a4"/>
<image type="poster" url="http://d3gtl9l2a4fn1j.cloudfront.net/t/p/w500/fVxG2moTyJ8KWWztZrZNAK0ya03.jpg" size="mid" width="500" height="736" id="508a405a760ee355b70005a4"/>
<image type="poster" url="http://d3gtl9l2a4fn1j.cloudfront.net/t/p/original/fVxG2moTyJ8KWWztZrZNAK0ya03.jpg" size="original" width="1000" height="1471" id="508a405a760ee355b70005a4"/>
<image type="poster" url="http://d3gtl9l2a4fn1j.cloudfront.net/t/p/w92/qo9BVO7Filumw9PW93IFRZvaNgm.jpg" size="thumb" width="92" height="129" id="5038931319c29556ce010529"/>
<image type="poster" url="http://d3gtl9l2a4fn1j.cloudfront.net/t/p/w154/qo9BVO7Filumw9PW93IFRZvaNgm.jpg" size="w154" width="154" height="216" id="5038931319c29556ce010529"/>
<image type="poster" url="http://d3gtl9l2a4fn1j.cloudfront.net/t/p/w185/qo9BVO7Filumw9PW93IFRZvaNgm.jpg" size="cover" width="185" height="260" id="5038931319c29556ce010529"/>
<image type="poster" url="http://d3gtl9l2a4fn1j.cloudfront.net/t/p/w342/qo9BVO7Filumw9PW93IFRZvaNgm.jpg" size="w342" width="342" height="481" id="5038931319c29556ce010529"/>
<image type="poster" url="http://d3gtl9l2a4fn1j.cloudfront.net/t/p/w500/qo9BVO7Filumw9PW93IFRZvaNgm.jpg" size="mid" width="500" height="703" id="5038931319c29556ce010529"/>
<image type="poster" url="http://d3gtl9l2a4fn1j.cloudfront.net/t/p/original/qo9BVO7Filumw9PW93IFRZvaNgm.jpg" size="original" width="713" height="1002" id="5038931319c29556ce010529"/>
<image type="poster" url="http://d3gtl9l2a4fn1j.cloudfront.net/t/p/w92/ymsidZ7aHgDkR8fRH5DEOYrCxhk.jpg" size="thumb" width="92" height="133" id="514ec8e5760ee35aae22eb05"/>
<image type="poster" url="http://d3gtl9l2a4fn1j.cloudfront.net/t/p/w154/ymsidZ7aHgDkR8fRH5DEOYrCxhk.jpg" size="w154" width="154" height="223" id="514ec8e5760ee35aae22eb05"/>
<image type="poster" url="http://d3gtl9l2a4fn1j.cloudfront.net/t/p/w185/ymsidZ7aHgDkR8fRH5DEOYrCxhk.jpg" size="cover" width="185" height="268" id="514ec8e5760ee35aae22eb05"/>
<image type="poster" url="http://d3gtl9l2a4fn1j.cloudfront.net/t/p/w342/ymsidZ7aHgDkR8fRH5DEOYrCxhk.jpg" size="w342" width="342" height="496" id="514ec8e5760ee35aae22eb05"/>
<image type="poster" url="http://d3gtl9l2a4fn1j.cloudfront.net/t/p/w500/ymsidZ7aHgDkR8fRH5DEOYrCxhk.jpg" size="mid" width="500" height="725" id="514ec8e5760ee35aae22eb05"/>

In fact on the ones that I just tried, I never see that attribute at all So, if I only pull images that define a language attribute, then in many cases, I'll never get any images at all.

[Fuzzy]

Originally Posted by stuckless

Whenever i look at the results coming back, I rarely see any language tag on the images.

<image type="poster" url="http://d3gtl9l2a4fn1j.cloudfront.net/t/p/w92/uLGaJ9FgPWf7EUgwjp9RTmHemw8.jpg" size="thumb" width="92" height="138" id="4ea5d65f9dc3d83c3b0009eb"/>
<image type="poster" url="http://d3gtl9l2a4fn1j.cloudfront.net/t/p/w154/uLGaJ9FgPWf7EUgwjp9RTmHemw8.jpg" size="w154" width="154" height="231" id="4ea5d65f9dc3d83c3b0009eb"/>
<image type="poster" url="http://d3gtl9l2a4fn1j.cloudfront.net/t/p/w185/uLGaJ9FgPWf7EUgwjp9RTmHemw8.jpg" size="cover" width="185" height="278" id="4ea5d65f9dc3d83c3b0009eb"/>
<image type="poster" url="http://d3gtl9l2a4fn1j.cloudfront.net/t/p/w342/uLGaJ9FgPWf7EUgwjp9RTmHemw8.jpg" size="w342" width="342" height="513" id="4ea5d65f9dc3d83c3b0009eb"/>
<image type="poster" url="http://d3gtl9l2a4fn1j.cloudfront.net/t/p/w500/uLGaJ9FgPWf7EUgwjp9RTmHemw8.jpg" size="mid" width="500" height="750" id="4ea5d65f9dc3d83c3b0009eb"/>
<image type="poster" url="http://d3gtl9l2a4fn1j.cloudfront.net/t/p/original/uLGaJ9FgPWf7EUgwjp9RTmHemw8.jpg" size="original" width="1000" height="1500" id="4ea5d65f9dc3d83c3b0009eb"/>
<image type="poster" url="http://d3gtl9l2a4fn1j.cloudfront.net/t/p/w92/4CCteRB3QkmPWebLMfEfMxfHpEJ.jpg" size="thumb" width="92" height="135" id="50927c7e19c29502cc000510"/>
<image type="poster" url="http://d3gtl9l2a4fn1j.cloudfront.net/t/p/w154/4CCteRB3QkmPWebLMfEfMxfHpEJ.jpg" size="w154" width="154" height="227" id="50927c7e19c29502cc000510"/>
<image type="poster" url="http://d3gtl9l2a4fn1j.cloudfront.net/t/p/w185/4CCteRB3QkmPWebLMfEfMxfHpEJ.jpg" size="cover" width="185" height="272" id="50927c7e19c29502cc000510"/>
<image type="poster" url="http://d3gtl9l2a4fn1j.cloudfront.net/t/p/w342/4CCteRB3QkmPWebLMfEfMxfHpEJ.jpg" size="w342" width="342" height="503" id="50927c7e19c29502cc000510"/>
<image type="poster" url="http://d3gtl9l2a4fn1j.cloudfront.net/t/p/w500/4CCteRB3QkmPWebLMfEfMxfHpEJ.jpg" size="mid" width="500" height="736" id="50927c7e19c29502cc000510"/>
<image type="poster" url="http://d3gtl9l2a4fn1j.cloudfront.net/t/p/original/4CCteRB3QkmPWebLMfEfMxfHpEJ.jpg" size="original" width="1000" height="1471" id="50927c7e19c29502cc000510"/>
<image type="poster" url="http://d3gtl9l2a4fn1j.cloudfront.net/t/p/w92/fVxG2moTyJ8KWWztZrZNAK0ya03.jpg" size="thumb" width="92" height="135" id="508a405a760ee355b70005a4"/>
<image type="poster" url="http://d3gtl9l2a4fn1j.cloudfront.net/t/p/w154/fVxG2moTyJ8KWWztZrZNAK0ya03.jpg" size="w154" width="154" height="227" id="508a405a760ee355b70005a4"/>
<image type="poster" url="http://d3gtl9l2a4fn1j.cloudfront.net/t/p/w185/fVxG2moTyJ8KWWztZrZNAK0ya03.jpg" size="cover" width="185" height="272" id="508a405a760ee355b70005a4"/>
<image type="poster" url="http://d3gtl9l2a4fn1j.cloudfront.net/t/p/w342/fVxG2moTyJ8KWWztZrZNAK0ya03.jpg" size="w342" width="342" height="503" id="508a405a760ee355b70005a4"/>
<image type="poster" url="http://d3gtl9l2a4fn1j.cloudfront.net/t/p/w500/fVxG2moTyJ8KWWztZrZNAK0ya03.jpg" size="mid" width="500" height="736" id="508a405a760ee355b70005a4"/>
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<image type="poster" url="http://d3gtl9l2a4fn1j.cloudfront.net/t/p/w92/qo9BVO7Filumw9PW93IFRZvaNgm.jpg" size="thumb" width="92" height="129" id="5038931319c29556ce010529"/>
<image type="poster" url="http://d3gtl9l2a4fn1j.cloudfront.net/t/p/w154/qo9BVO7Filumw9PW93IFRZvaNgm.jpg" size="w154" width="154" height="216" id="5038931319c29556ce010529"/>
<image type="poster" url="http://d3gtl9l2a4fn1j.cloudfront.net/t/p/w185/qo9BVO7Filumw9PW93IFRZvaNgm.jpg" size="cover" width="185" height="260" id="5038931319c29556ce010529"/>
<image type="poster" url="http://d3gtl9l2a4fn1j.cloudfront.net/t/p/w342/qo9BVO7Filumw9PW93IFRZvaNgm.jpg" size="w342" width="342" height="481" id="5038931319c29556ce010529"/>
<image type="poster" url="http://d3gtl9l2a4fn1j.cloudfront.net/t/p/w500/qo9BVO7Filumw9PW93IFRZvaNgm.jpg" size="mid" width="500" height="703" id="5038931319c29556ce010529"/>
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In fact on the ones that I just tried, I never see that attribute at all So, if I only pull images that define a language attribute, then in many cases, I'll never get any images at all.

I don't know what exact api's you are using to get the list, but looking here:
http://docs.themoviedb.apiary.io/
/3/movie/{id}/images
includes a iso_639_1 property on each result - sometimes null, but most times properly populated. (it is proper that if the image has no text - like most backgrounds - for it to not have a language tag, in which case, it will be null).

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by Fuzzy

I don't know what exact api's you are using to get the list, but looking here:
http://docs.themoviedb.apiary.io/
/3/movie/{id}/images
includes a iso_639_1 property on each result - sometimes null, but most times properly populated. (it is proper that if the image has no text - like most backgrounds - for it to not have a language tag, in which case, it will be null).

Thanks it would appear that they have created a new 3.x api (I'm using the 2.x api). So, this is going to be a few weeks effort to move to a new api. If the 3.x api supports better information about the images (ie correct languages), then I'll schedule some time over the next couple months to make this happen.

[Fuzzy]

Originally Posted by stuckless

Thanks it would appear that they have created a new 3.x api (I'm using the 2.x api). So, this is going to be a few weeks effort to move to a new api. If the 3.x api supports better information about the images (ie correct languages), then I'll schedule some time over the next couple months to make this happen.

It appears the new API is JSON only, no more XML so that may actually make it easier to implement.

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by Fuzzy

It appears the new API is JSON only, no more XML so that may actually make it easier to implement.

Well... easier if I were doing it from scratch... but given that I already have an implementation in XML... it means that I can't reuse any of that code in migrating from 2.x to 3

But, yeah, nice to be using a json api, since it is a little easier to work with... just sucks that I have to start from scratch

[Fuzzy]

at least with the movie id's remaining the same, you could just alter a few key areas at a time (like the image part.. :-)

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by Fuzzy

at least with the movie id's remaining the same, you could just alter a few key areas at a time (like the image part.. :-)

True... but I've been wanting to restructure this for awhile now Plus, in moving to the new v3 api, I'll look at bringing down actor fanart, as well.

I actually found where someone has created a full java api for the v3 api and I'm tempted to just use it... but it'll add a alot more jar dependencies... so I'm trying to weigh the pros and cons...

[Fuzzy]

With Sage's plugin architecture, I can't see much in the way of cons - aside from maintainability. Is the v3 API wrapper jar open sourced, and would you have the ability to make improvements/changes to it if the core author disappeared? If not, and for as little as there REALLY is interaction with the api - it might not be worth the risk.

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by Fuzzy

With Sage's plugin architecture, I can't see much in the way of cons - aside from maintainability. Is the v3 API wrapper jar open sourced, and would you have the ability to make improvements/changes to it if the core author disappeared? If not, and for as little as there REALLY is interaction with the api - it might not be worth the risk.

Yeah, it's an open source api... and it would make interacting with themoviedb very easy. It's just about 5 or 6 new jar files

[Fuzzy]

Originally Posted by stuckless

Yeah, it's an open source api... and it would make interacting with themoviedb very easy. It's just about 5 or 6 new jar files

With that much, it seems like it's a lot more than just wrapping up the JSON calls. It probably handles authentication, and other things required to write changed to TMDB as well - something that isn't really needed in your use case. All you really need to do is grab the JSON data from HTTP requests, and interact with it directly as objects, copying from the JSON object, to the appropriate SageTV API object.

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by Fuzzy

With that much, it seems like it's a lot more than just wrapping up the JSON calls. It probably handles authentication, and other things required to write changed to TMDB as well - something that isn't really needed in your use case. All you really need to do is grab the JSON data from HTTP requests, and interact with it directly as objects, copying from the JSON object, to the appropriate SageTV API object.

Yeah, the api is more full featured (which isn't a bad thing), but, you are right, I just need the simple json data stream. Also their api uses a bunch of jars so that they can automatically convert the json data into model objects, (ie, Movie, Actor, Image, etc) so that they don't deal with json directly. Whether or not I use thier api... I'll certainly study it

[Fuzzy]

There are some pretty simple json jars out there that will wrap the json easily (I've played with json-simple, and it is VERY simple to use (named well, i suppose).

Of course, it might be worth looking at the json plugin that is already in the repository (I think slugger made it). You can likely leverage that directly from phoenix (obviously, adding the dependency), and that way, you aren't likely adding anything that isn't already on most servers out there. (I'm not sure if he's got his json source available - but if you could get it from him, it would certainly simplify things - it's a dependency on many common plugins - including the web interface.

EDIT: looks like the <identifier>json</identifier> plugin is in fact the json.jar from json.org - so javadocs are available there - and that way it's properly namespaced to org.json - should be able to use it - it's not as featured as json-simple, or others, but it is enough for the minimal object manipulation you'll be doing. (download -> parse to an object -> iterate through and add copy values out via sagetv api -> destroy object)

EDIT2: i just noticed he also has a gson plugin in the repository - which may be a better json library to use - and also already in the repository.

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by Fuzzy

There are some pretty simple json jars out there that will wrap the json easily (I've played with json-simple, and it is VERY simple to use (named well, i suppose).

Of course, it might be worth looking at the json plugin that is already in the repository (I think slugger made it). You can likely leverage that directly from phoenix (obviously, adding the dependency), and that way, you aren't likely adding anything that isn't already on most servers out there. (I'm not sure if he's got his json source available - but if you could get it from him, it would certainly simplify things - it's a dependency on many common plugins - including the web interface.

EDIT: looks like the <identifier>json</identifier> plugin is in fact the json.jar from json.org - so javadocs are available there - and that way it's properly namespaced to org.json - should be able to use it - it's not as featured as json-simple, or others, but it is enough for the minimal object manipulation you'll be doing. (download -> parse to an object -> iterate through and add copy values out via sagetv api -> destroy object)

EDIT2: i just noticed he also has a gson plugin in the repository - which may be a better json library to use - and also already in the repository.

Yeah, I've used gson quite a bit (and it's already pulled in as a part of Phoenix), so I'll most definitely use that if I'm having to manage the json objects directly.

[HokiePerogi]

Any updates on this update? Foreign poster downloads continue to plague me.

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by HokiePerogi

Any updates on this update? Foreign poster downloads continue to plague me.

I don't really think the cover art issue will ever be resolved. I did try to pull in another api for fetching, but I ended up backing it out, since it brought in other challenges.