[mythtv-users] thetvdb fanart missing from Myth

[Ken Truesdale]

To recap, I have a recording that comes through in the program listings with a '/' character in it.  The slash causes the basic .24 algorithm for matching fanart names to fail since there can be no file named with a slash in it.  (basic Unix rule)  I can't play any games with Jamu because even if I get a show in the fanart directory, Myth will never match the artwork because of the slash in the name.  The only thing I can do is rename the shows that come in for recording but I've discovered that causes problems with matching previously recorded shows.  And I have to remember to do it on an ongoing basis.  

So I bit the bullet and modified the Myth code that does the matching.  For anyone that is interested, I modified mythtv/programs/mythfrontend/playbackboxhelper.cpp to add following line
    title.replace(QString("/"), QString("_"));
just before this line:
    title.replace(' ', "(?:\\s|-|_|\\.)?");
Recompile, redeploy, etc..  

Then, you need to manually get the fanart you want in the fanart directory and name it correctly including changing any '/' to a '_'. 

Note that I already had the source set up for compiling so that I could patch in Ron's Ceton patch.  Definitely not worth the trouble of getting the code just for this silly little fix.  But in case anyone else already has source code and has a recording with a slash in it and cares about fanart, this fix should do the trick.  Since it took me a while to find the right source file responsible, maybe somebody else could benefit.  (Unlikely, I know.)  

Also note that if Raymond hadn't already replied to my post explaining that .25 does things differently, then I'd do something more official-like about getting this code somewhere that it can roll forward.  But since the current matching in .24 is an evolutionary dead end, there's no point in anything more than sharing in this post.  


Ken.