[mythtv-theming] Random fanart

[Eric Smith]

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Robert McNamara <robert.mcnamara at gmail.com
> wrote:

>
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> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Eric Smith <erictsmith at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I have created ticket 9597 http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/9597 with a
>> patch to support random fanart, coverart, and banners.  It currently only
>> supports the front end mythvideo directory settings.  At first glance, the
>> ability to fetch a random file from a storage group did not seem obvious so
>> I decided to stick with the old directory settings for now.  I will look
>> further into that if the devs don't want to continue to support the old
>> settings.
>>
>
> Hi Eric,
>
> Thanks for the effort on the patch-- I've added my comments to the ticket.
>  In order to get committed, it's going to need to support storage groups
> (and likely *only* storage groups is acceptable as we're likely to be SG
> only by .25).  Also need support for all the artwork imagetypes, and to use
> variables consistent with everywhere else in the frontend (ie, we never
> refer to it as "bannerart").  Even after all of that is said and done, it
> will also need a stamp of approval from Stuart Morgan as well as the code is
> ultimately his.
>
> Robert
>


Thanks for the comments Robert.  I assumed storage groups would likely be a
requirement.  I'll take another shot at it this weekend and see what I can
come up with.
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