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

[scram69]

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Ash Bostock <abostock at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

Don't know.  My best guess would be an issue with osxpackager.pl.
It's purely an OS X frontend issue.
>
> I'm assuming there's not a trivial fix to resolve it?

Again, I don't know.  I suppose at some level of knowledge/familiarity
with the code it is trivial...