[mythtv-users] fanart question

[Michael T. Dean]

On 09/14/2009 11:16 AM, Robert McNamara wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 7:51 AM, Brian Long wrote:
>   
>> Dumb user question, but is there a way to scale all the fanart from the
>> command-line?
>>     
>
> I'm afraid not--  the scaling *and* effects application are done at
> the same time, so the cached images need to have the effects applied
> to them and be named according to the effects used in the XML.
> Scripting this is impractical without re-implementing MythUI XML
> parsing in your script, having software that can apply all the needed
> effects, and reimplementing a fair portion of the caching logic too.
> There are long term plans to solve the problem, but this is probably
> just going to be a fact of life for .22.

Remember, also, that there's a setting:

Theme cache size
Maximum number of prescaled themes to cache.

in mythfrontend settings under Appearance settings, which would allow 
you to hold on to (each of) your (old) caches even if you switch themes 
frequently.  It will not reuse the cached images from the other theme, 
but it will prevent mythfrontend from deleting the old cache outright 
when you switch themes so that if you switch back, you have your old 
cache in place.

Mike