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

[Bob Cottingham]

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