[mythtv] Ticket #6159: Add Screenshot as additional metadata type to videometadata

[Robert McNamara]

On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Bill Stewart <wstewart at hgrace.com> wrote:
> Robert,
> Patch is looking good, definitely something I think that is needed and in
> the right direction to support TV series properly.  Eventually I would like
> to see Tv series handling like xmbc, and this is something I had planned to
> attack in the distant future, but it seems you are further ahead than I am
> with such a feature patch
>
> In your latest update you say "this is NOT the way things are going to end
> up working the supplemental patch is *only* for purposes of testing the
> fanart capabilities".
>
> Could you clarify what you have in mind?
>
> Do you have other plans for the patch?  Such as improving tv episode
> handling?
>
>
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Hi Bill,

I know that Anduin has been working on generalizing the download of
metadata media in MythVideo, and my basic understanding is that this
will allow for multiple grabber scripts using a compatible interface.
Thus, my quick hack to have tmdb download the fanart by creating a
whole reproduction of the existing Poster download code is the wrong
way to ultimately go about it-- How it will ultimately work will be
much, much nicer based on what I've heard so far.  It will/should also
address your desire to treat parts of MythVideo differently (eg TV
versus Movies).  So, presuming the DB/Metadata/UI portion of my patch
is applied, it should more or less set up the structure for Anduin to
do what he likes with the downloading/selection of Media.  I'm sure he
can speak more intelligently to that than I can, and I don't want to
go too far in speaking for him.

I merely wanted to provide an adequate disclaimer on the secondary
patch-- And it's a good thing I did, I just discovered a bug in it so
there will need to be a second revision of it :)

Robert