[mythtv-users] How to disable fan art?

Hika van den Hoven hikavdh at gmail.com
Sat Sep 6 14:21:11 UTC 2014


Hoi Will,

Saturday, September 6, 2014, 4:13:17 PM, you wrote:

> On 9/6/14 8:04 AM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
>> 
>>> Change themes? 
>> 
>> 
>> Don't retrieve metadata?


> I'd prefer not to change the theme, as I'm pretty comfortable with the
> default one.   I won't know for sure until the next time a show with
> fanart is recorded, but here's what I did:

> In mythtv-setup (which sort of annoys me is a separate program, but I
> digress) I disabled the global option that allows the backend to run
> metadata jobs.   The wiki
> <http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Enhancing_Recordings_with_Metadata_Lookup#Configuring_Recordings_to_Always_Grab_Extra_Metadata>
> seems to indicate that there's an option to disable metadata lookup for
> new recordings (which seems like a more precise fix), but I couldn't
> find that option.   Perhaps it was moved or removed.

> That still left the fanart when I restarted MFE.  And I suppose that
> this is because the art was already downloaded.  I did a "locate ttvdb"
> and found a couple places where the art was downloaded:
> ~/.mythtv/themecache/MythCenter-wide.1920.1080/
> /var/lib/mythtv/{banners,coverart,fanart}

> After removing those files, the art is gone.


> -WD

I'm not sure, but I think this way the metadata lookup jubs still get
scheduled but cannot run. So your job-queue gets cluttered with jobs
waiting to run. You have to uncheck the lookup metadata in all your
rules for them not to get scheduled.

Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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