[mythtv-users] Problem with thumbnails in Watch Recordings

[Michael Rice]

On 5/14/07, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> > I imagine the correct behavior would be to "refresh" the page after
> > the preview image was available but that doesn't seem to happen.
> >
>
> It does in SVN trunk (and will in 0.21).  I have no idea about
> 0.20-fixes, but I'm pretty sure it does.

Is that a recent change?  I am building and running 0.20-fixes (13315
I think which is only a few weeks old).  If so any idea what file that
would be in?  I could patch my copy.

> > Another possibility would be to generate the image at some other time
> > automatically (before it is needed).
> >
>
> This is done in SVN trunk (and will be in 0.21).  It might be done in
> 0.20-fixes (but I don't remember).  If not, you can just make a cron job
> to request the MythWeb "Recorded Programs" page at an appropriate time
> each day.

A once a day cron job isn't real appealing since the newest recordings
are the ones I look at the most and these would still be missing the
thumbnail most of the time.