[mythtv-users] Feature request: Actors' names in OSD

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 01:51:09AM -0700, Yeechang Lee wrote:
> Often when watching a TV show or a movie I see an actor and think,
> "Hey, what's her name?" or "Isn't he that guy that . . ."
> 
> Right now I have to exit playback then pull up the Program Details
> screen to see who's in the cast. I'd love to be able to, instead, have
> a third OSD screen (after the timebar and the title/description) that
> shows the 'Actors' and 'Guest Star' lines from Program Details.

And, while someone's writing that, how bout hotlinking them so we can
plug in a search URL template to look them up at, say, iMDB.

Cheers,
-- jra
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