Meneer Jansen wrote: > > > 2009/5/25 Duncan Webb <dun...@freevo.org <mailto:dun...@freevo.org>> > > Meneer Jansen wrote: > > Dear Freevo users, > > > > If I choose "Search IMDB for [my_movie_dvd_title]" in the menu: "Watch > > Movies --> DVD --> "E" (for the "Extra" menu) --> Search IMDB for > > [my_movie_title]" then Freevo crashes. DVD's for which I searched the > > imdb before appear with their correct picture in the menu. But I > cannot > > access the DVD imdb info anymore (because of Freevo crashing). > > > > Is their a patch for this? > > May be this is fixed in svn. > > The main problem is that BeautifulSoup, used for parsing the HTML data, > is not really maintained any more (it is but grudgingly). The last > version to work correctly is 3.0.7a but still has a few parsing errors. > > This means that we will have to find a replacement for BeautifulSoup in > a future release. > > Duncan > > > Thank you for your fast reply. Strange thing is that it used to work > just fine. What might have changed in Freevo in such a way that > 'BeautifulSoup' will not to work anymore? Or might a downgrade of > BeautifulSoup help to find a version of it that will be compatible w/ > Freevo.
Not always a problem with Freevo but problems with IMDB are caused by design changes to the IMDB pages. BeautifulSoup 3.0.7a is okay but 3.1.0 is bad. > > I'll let you know if the prob. still persists in the svn version. Do > other Freevo-ers have this problem with searching the IMDB for a DVD? > Duncan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT is a gathering of tech-side developers & brand creativity professionals. Meet the minds behind Google Creative Lab, Visual Complexity, Processing, & iPhoneDevCamp asthey present alongside digital heavyweights like Barbarian Group, R/GA, & Big Spaceship. http://www.creativitycat.com _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
