[mythtv-users] Validity of Season 0 metadata artwork

Karl Newman newmank1 at asme.org
Sun Nov 24 08:04:28 UTC 2013


On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Mark Perkins <perkins1724 at hotmail.com>wrote:

> Quick query regarding shows that have 'special' episodes as listed as
> Season 0 in TVDB.
>
> I never seem to get any artwork automatically in my frontends (either
> FE/BE combo or standalone FE) for Season 0 shows. I seem to be able to
> manually pull Coverart / Fanart / Banners for these shows through the
> metadata selection screens however even then it does not translate onto the
> FE display. Seasons 1 onwards seems to work consistently with no troubles
> at all. Is this something seen by others or do I have more local config
> problems?
>
> I know it is technically a separate element - but I noticed that the user
> job script myth_make_x264.pl seemed to be treating anything with Season =
> 0 differently to Season > 0 (ie with the naming convention) and wondered
> whether this was because MythTV itself did the same thing and assumed
> Season = 0 is not a valid Season number.
>

I think for Myth, Season=0 implies that it's a movie, so it hits tmdb
instead of ttvdb.

Karl
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