[mythtv-users] Assigning images to movies in mythvideo.

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Thursday 15 January 2004 12:33, Martin Moeller wrote:
> Hi folks.
>
> Once in a while I come across a movie without any poster in imdb or
> any other place that mythvideo searches and I need to add manually
> fetched imagery in stead. I have heard on several occasions that is
> should be possible to just drop the images 'in there', but assuming
> 'in there' is my somewhere below my Video ROOT, it doesn't seem to
> work...
>
> All I get is a window like this:
>
> MythVideo -> Video Manager -> Browse to movie -> '1' -> Select 'Cover
> Art'
>
> +=======+=======+==========+
> +       +       +          +
> +       + Image + No files +
> +       + Files + found    +
> +       +       +          +
> +=======+=======+==========+
>
> I can't see from the mythvideo code (assorted grep operations) where
> it is supposed to look and strace didn't give me much to go on
> either.
>
> Should the image be named the same as the file (sans extention, i.e.
> Madeline.avi -> Madeline.jpg?).

Due to a quirk in Qt, ".jpg" is not a valid image extension.  Try 
".jpeg" instead.

Though I thought someone had circumvented that problem... oh, well, give 
it a try anyway.

-JAC