[mythtv-users] Validity of Season 0 metadata artwork

[Raymond Wagner]

On 11/24/13 03:04, Karl Newman wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Mark Perkins <perkins1724 at hotmail.com
> <mailto: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 <http://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.

Season and Episode both equal to zero implies a movie.  Season set to
zero and Episode set to something else is valid for a television special.