Movie poster quality is poor.

vilkas · Post by **vilkas** » 2017-07-13 17:25:37

Hello all,

Thank you for AMC, it is wonderful.

I hope to get help with the image quality of my movie poster that is imported from IMDB. The end product I receive after importation is a small thumbnail. I have already selected the option under imagekind to import the bigger movie poster, but I still end up with the small thumbnail.
IF i visit the IMDB site and click on the move thumbnail image, it links me to a large good quality picture. Is there anyway to import that picture automatically??
Or am I going about this wrong? My goal is to have a good quality movie poster image and not the low quality thumbnails to view in my catalogue.
Thank you for any advice.
The test movie I am using for IMDB is American Pie.

-V

Post by **antp** » 2017-07-13 20:07:49

Hi,
It seems to work fine here, I get a large picture
Which version of the IMDb script do you have? (displayed in the info box at the bottom)
Current is 3.89; if you have an older one you can upgrade it by running the "update scripts" script.

vilkas · Post by **vilkas** » 2017-07-14 00:41:25

Thanks for the prompt reply.

I am glad to hear it is working properly. Maybe I have something checked/unchecked somewhere that is limiting me to the thumbnail only.

I am using IMDB 3.83. I ran the "update scripts" script, and it is still 3.83. Is the 3.89 a typo? Or do I need to investigate how to update to that version?

My imagekind is set to "3", whatever that is worth.

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Post by **antp** » 2017-07-14 05:38:40

I confirm the 3.89, and we fixed image problems previously, so it must be it: when you run "update scripts", after a few seconds it will display a list of new scripts available, pick "imdb" and click ok; once done, close that, reopen the script window, and it should be good.
If not there is still a possibility to do that update manually, but I don't see why the automatic one wouldn't work.
You can find the scripts for download there: http://update.antp.be/amc/scripts/
(In case you need additional directions for manual update, which version of Windows are you using?)

vilkas · Post by **vilkas** » 2017-07-16 01:25:26

Updating to 3.89 solved the problem.
Oddly, it took numerous tries to get it to update. I would run the automatic script, chose imdb, then I would close the window (and sometimes the whole AMC program). After about 5-6 attempts, it finally updated to 3.89.
Thank you very much for your help :-)

Using win 7 64 bit.

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