[mythtv] AlbumArt on PS3 for Recorded TV has never worked. Fix Attached

Steve Glennon steve.mythtv at glennons.com
Thu Apr 15 20:56:26 UTC 2010


Raised ticket 8353 and attached an improved patch, without the  
double-escaping "fix".
Steve

Quoting Steve Glennon <steve.mythtv at glennons.com>:

> AlbumART for recorded TV has never worked in my history of using
> MythTV with the PS3.
> PlayOn showed the way to go. It has been bugging me for a while, and I
> finally got around
> to doing something about it.
>
> Here is a patch against trunk (attached) that fixes this and also adds
> setting the
> dc:date value (which makes for better presentation in PS3 info, plus
> shows up below the
> title in PS3 browse).
>
> I'm not much of a C++ guy, so forgive me if there are goobers.
> Compiles clean, works well
> (also have a fix for 0.22-fixes branch if wanted). I also fixed up
> some double-escaping
> along the way on item at id.
>
> Note that this is not DLNA compliant - they expect "albumart" for
> videoitems to be
> conveyed as an additional <res> containing the thumbnail, and they
> also desire that you
> provide a JPEG_TN, but GetPreviewImage provides only PNG as far as I  
>  can tell.
>
> Let me know if I broke protocol on updates. All I need now is a
> committer to get this
> into trunk, or a person to give me committer privileges.
>
> Regards
> Steve





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