[mythtv-users] Feature Request: Differentiate TV Shows From Movies
Karl Dietz
dekarl at spaetfruehstuecken.org
Wed May 21 04:08:29 UTC 2014
On 21.05.2014 05:34, Mark Perkins wrote:
>> Yes this works. I 'E', then set the Title to Danger Man, and set the
>> Season and Episode, Save and have it fetch the metadata, and sure enough
>> it gets the storyline, director, date, and other info. But it does not
>> get the correct image appropriate to the episode, which thetvdb has. It
>> always shows McGoohan's picture. This is far better than it was, but I
>> don't understand why it doesn't fetch the episode image?
>
> Someone else will confirm but I don't think MythTV handles episode level artwork, only season level artwork. I don't think episode artwork is in the recording screens either.
MythTV, at least for recordings, will create its own preview image. It
will not pull in the episode images from external services.
Regards,
Karl
PS: I think it would be nice if we did support the episode image in
addition to our own snapshots and bookmark images. Giving themers up to
three different kinds of "program images".
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