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Post by Space » Mon Oct 19, 2020 12:37 am

NOTE: You can ignore this post unless you are bored, I figured out what the issue is.


I was just looking in my EPG123 log and noticed a few movies that were being looked up (I believe in thetvdb.com).

I see this:

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[10/18/2020 7:45:34 PM] [ INFO] TMDb catalog search for "My Husband's Secret Twin" from 2019 found 0 results.
[10/18/2020 7:45:34 PM] [ INFO] TMDb catalog search for "My Husband's Secret Twin" from 2018 found 0 results.
[10/18/2020 7:45:34 PM] [ INFO] TMDb catalog search for "My Husband's Secret Twin" from 2020 found 0 results.

[10/18/2020 7:45:34 PM] [ INFO] TMDb catalog search for "My Husband's Secret Life" from 2017 found 0 results.
[10/18/2020 7:45:34 PM] [ INFO] TMDb catalog search for "My Husband's Secret Life" from 2016 found 0 results.
[10/18/2020 7:45:34 PM] [ INFO] TMDb catalog search for "My Husband's Secret Life" from 2018 found 1 results.
So it didn't find the "Twin" movie but did find the "Life" one.

When I do the query on the thetvdb.com website, I DO find the "Twin" one but do not find the "Life" one (the opposite of what EPG123 found).

Also, when I look at the poster art for "Life" in WMC it is actually artwork for "Sleeper" (note that this movie stars "Kara Killmer" who also stars in the "Life" movie.) There is no poster art for "Twin" in WMC.

So I was just wondering what is going on here?

EDIT: Silly me, I just noticed that it is using TMDb, not thetvdb, I guess that is the problem... The "Sleeper" thing is still a problem though, I see when I run a query for "Life" it returns this move as well as "Sleeper" and since only "Sleeper" has poster art, I guess it incorrectly uses that.

EDIT2: OK, I am confused again. If I look at the cast for "Sleeper" on TMDb, it matches what WMC has for "Life", the cast for "Life" on TMDb is completely different. Does the cast info come from SD or is that pulled from TMDb (I thought it only got art from there). Also the one on TMDb has a release year of 1998, so is most likely not the correct movie. Perhaps the 2018 movie just has two different names? I don't know...

EDIT3: OK I checked on IMDB, and this movie does have two names "Sleeper" and "My Husband's Secret Life". Not sure why the TMDb website does not list this alternate title, but does return the movie when you query that name. Anyway, this whole post is now moot, so ignore it. I will but this at the top too... :(
Last edited by Space on Mon Oct 19, 2020 12:57 am, edited 2 times in total.
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Post by garyan2 » Mon Oct 19, 2020 12:51 am

EPG123 uses TMDB for movie art, not TVDB. Below is a search result from TMDB. "My Husband's Secret Life" is an alternate title for "Sleeper" which is why it came up in the results. IMDB will also show the alternate title for "Sleeper".
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Post by Space » Mon Oct 19, 2020 12:55 am

You are too fast, I had already edited my post. Yeah, I figured all that out. Thanks.
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