[mythtv-users] Questions on fanart in the recordings screen.

[Robert McNamara]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Bob Cottingham <bobnvic at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Roy Lofthouse <lofty69 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Just having a look at introducing some fanart into the recordings
>> screen and I have some questions..
>>
>> Looking at the patch that introduced this feature it would appear the
>> it uses the "seriesid" field to denote what coverart is used, is this
>> correct?
>>
>> If so, does it use thetvdb.com as the source as these don't match my
>> id's (possibly a country specific issue and may need populating)?
>>
>> I tried adding a <seriesid>_fanart.jpg file into the fanart folder but
>> nothing showed up (the theme is using "fanart" as the background
>> imagetype name).
>>
>> Aside from using jamu can we update the images any other way (like
>> mythvideo uses the metadata options)?
>
> I found that I was able to get fanart to appear by naming the image
> with the program name, Like FlashForward_fanart.jpg.  With the image
> named that way in the fanart folder it appeared in the background of
> the watch recordings screen for the mythbuntu theme (only theme I
> tried it on).  This also worked for series with spaces in the title,
> but not for series with a colon, like Survivor: Samoa.  I didn't find
> a solution for that one.
>
> Bob C

That's why the SeriesID option exists.  Every series should have a
seriesID in the listings data, thus the seriesid.png should load as a
final fallback.

Robert