[mythtv-users] Fanart problem

[junos7 at gmail.com]

On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Mattias Vik <magion at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 13:40,  <junos7 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Update.
> >
> > Every entry in videometada has just a filename in fanart. When I change
> this
> > to a complete filename with path, the fanart works... Dont want to update
> > everything manually. On the settings I have the fanart folder spesified.
> >
> > Could it be a wrong parameter in jamu.conf?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Junos
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 1:13 PM, <junos7 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hey.
> >>
> >> I had the posters and fanart working nicely for a long time. I added
> some
> >> new movies and ran jamu.py again and after that the fanart pictures are
> no
> >> longer shown. The posters are working as before, though.
> >>
> >> I tried to initialize the whole thing from scratch. I deleted all
> >> fanart/banners/posters files and deleted everything from
> >> videometadata-table. Even deleted the themecache. After this I searched
> for
> >> changes in mythVideo to get all the movie-files into the db. And then I
> ran
> >> 'jamu.py -MRV', after which I ran 'jamu.py -MV'.
> >>
> >> It then retrieved the metadata. The posters are visible but no
> fanart....
> >>
> >> Im running 0.24-fixes from the github and Arclight.
> >>
> >> Mythfrontend on normal loglvl says:
> >> 2011-01-22 13:07:12.193 MythUIHelper, Error:
> >> LoadScaleImage(14161_fanart.jpg)Unable to find image file
> >> 2011-01-22 13:07:15.638 MythUIHelper, Error:
> >> LoadScaleImage(170_fanart.jpg)Unable to find image file
> >>
> >> ...though the actual picture-files are in ~/.mythtv/MythVideo/Fanart
> (with
> >> read-access). I have done apt-get install upgrade, perhaps that changed
> some
> >> dependencies..
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Junos
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
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>
> I've had exactly this same problem before, I was running Mythbuntu 9.04.
> I never really fixed it, but did a quick-and-dirty workaround... I
> wrote a little script that was run once every minute from crontab
> which updated the database and added the correct path in front of the
> filenames.
> Not a very good way to fix it, but atleast it worked.
> For me the problem started when I switched to using Storage Groups,
> but then I couldn't use external player anymore, so switched back to
> not using Storage Groups, and that's when the problem started.
> Now I'm only using the internal player and Storage Groups, and have
> never had this problem since.
>
> /Mattias
> _______________________________________________
>

Yep, fixed it for now with 'update videometadata set
fanart=concat('/home/mythtv/.mythtv/MythVideo/Fanart/',fanart)', but I guess
it's something to do with SG's. Though, I did not touch them at all, when
fanart got broken. I'm using xine for videos, so I'm not using SG's.

Cheers,
Junos
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