[mythtv-commits] Ticket #6336: Add fanart/banner/coverfile support to Watch Recordings

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#6336: Add fanart/banner/coverfile support to Watch Recordings
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 Reporter:  robert.mcnamara at gmail.com        |       Owner:  stuartm
     Type:  enhancement                      |      Status:  new    
 Priority:  minor                            |   Milestone:  unknown
Component:  MythTV - User Interface Library  |     Version:  head   
 Severity:  medium                           |     Mlocked:  0      
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 Now that fanart/banner/coverfile/screenshot support exists in MythVideo,
 this patch adds an "Image Hunt" function as well as the UI stuff necessary
 for fanart/coverfile/banner support in the PlayBackBox.  Because the
 metadata download stuff is a frontend functionality, this is a half-
 measure towards the best way to accomplish this.  Ultimately I'd like to
 see the scheduler do a metadata download for anything scheduled which
 doesn't have fanart/coverfile/banner, and have it set as a DB value in
 recordedprogram by the time the recording occurs.  That will require
 moving the download stuff into the backend/libraries-- maybe for .23?  In
 the meantime, here is how the image hunt works, I'm just cutting and
 pasting the comments from the code as they explain it well:

 +    // Attempts to match image file in specified directory.<BR>
 +    // Falls back like this:<BR>
 +    //   <BR>
 +    //     Pushing Daisies 5.png<BR>
 +    //     PushingDaisies5.png<BR>
 +    //     PushingDaisiesSeason5.png<BR>
 +    //     Pushing Daisies Season 5 Episode 1.png<BR>
 +    //     PuShinG DaisIES s05e01.png<BR>
 +    //     etc. (you get it)<BR>
 +    //<BR>
 +    // Or any permutation thereof including -,_, or . instead of
 space<BR>
 +    // Then, match by seriesid (for future PBB grabber):<BR>
 +    //  <BR>
 +    //     EP0012345.png<BR>
 +    //<BR>
 +    // Then, as a final fallback, match just title<BR>
 +    //<BR>
 +    //     Pushing Daisies.png (or Pushing_Daisies.png, etc.)<BR>
 +    //      <BR>
 +    // All this allows for grabber to grab an image with format:<BR>
 +    //<BR>
 +    //     Title SeasonNumber.ext or Title SeasonNum # Epnum #.ext<BR>
 +    //     or SeriesID.ext or Title.ext (without caring about cases,<BR>
 +    //     spaces, dashes, periods, or underscores)<BR>

 In about six weeks of using this code it has worked pretty flawlessly.  In
 the short term this means copying a few correctly named images for your
 favorite shows into the fanart/banner/coverfile dirs, but I hope to solve
 this as mentioned above.  In the meantime it's a nice visual feature that
 works well with fairly minimal intervention.

 This splits out part of #6158.  If this gets committed I will update that
 patch accordingly.

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