[mythtv-users] Remote frontend not displaying coverart, fanart, etc...

Ash Bostock abostock at gmail.com
Sat Jan 23 23:08:29 UTC 2010


On 23 January 2010 03:37, scram69 <scram69 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Ash Bostock <abostock at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a frontend/backend combo machine which displays coverart, fanart,
> > etc... correctly in mythvideo and the recordings screen.
> > However when using my mac remote frontend machine none of the images are
> > displayed.
> >
> > Checking the frontend logs I get many error lines such as...
> >
> > Error loading image to scale, from file:
> > myth://Coverart@192.168.0.225:6543/American Chopper Season
> 6_coverart.jpg
> >
> > Is there something I can do to fix this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ash
> Unfortunately, the only thing you can do is convert all of your .jpg's
> to .png's.  With Qt4, jpeg support became a plugin; the mac frontend
> does not include that plugin.
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Thanks for the answer. So is that just something that the myth dev's haven't
coded for yet? or is it a limitation on the osx packager script? or is it
that trolltech don't include the jpeg plugin on the mac?

I'm assuming there's not a trivial fix to resolve it?

Ash
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