[mythtv-users] Validity of Season 0 metadata artwork
Raymond Wagner
raymond at wagnerrp.com
Sun Nov 24 11:20:06 UTC 2013
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.
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