[mythtv-users] Feature Request: Differentiate TV Shows From Movies

[Mark Perkins]

> On 21 May 2014, at 1:40 pm, "Karl Dietz" <dekarl at spaetfruehstuecken.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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Yes, I guess I was specifically thinking of 'artwork' as the downloaded variant not the mythpreviewgen screenshot / snapshot - my apologies.

So yes myth does handle some episode level artwork at least in the recordings screens.