[mythtv-users] Arclight not showing fanart for one specific tv show

[Robert McNamara]

On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Brian J. Murrell <brian at interlinx.bc.ca> wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-11-14 at 19:12 -0800, Robert McNamara wrote:
>> Please don't file a bug.  In addition to not being one,
>
> How do you figure it's not a bug?  Clearly if literals are being matched
> as special characters, they need to be escaped before being matched.
> Not escaping them and failing the match is a bug.  That said...

I disagree.  Sorry.  As *I* said, a perfectly matching system is
possible by naming the artwork by seriesid.  Having it also make an
attempt to match title is a best effort convenience measure.  I'm
trying to explain that if any such ticket were opened, I'll close it
invalid.  I'm attempting to further explain that a better solution is
on the way.  The image hunt code was, and has always been, a stopgap
measure to get the artwork into the PBB.  It is code destined to be
torn out and thus I will not make any further enhancements to it as I
consider it wasted effort.

>> as the image
>> hunt is a "best effort" process,
>
> It could be even better if special characters in the literal data were
> expressed to the matching algorithm as such.  But again, that said...

Please stop "that said"ing.  I am happy to explain to you what the
future plans are.

>> the image hunt will be replaced with
>> assigned images to recording rules in the next release or two.
>
> Assigned?  How?

Assigned per-recording rule.

>> Adding any enhancements to the current image hunting algorithm isn't
>> something I foresee happening.
>
> Well, that's fair enough if something better is under way, indeed.
>
>> If you want to have a "sure thing"
>> match to the image hunt, name the imagery by seriesid, not title.
>
> Is this some kind of "special circumstances" per-incident hack you are
> referring to, like overriding titles in the jamu.conf or are you
> referring to some other tighter coupling (and not "best effort" title
> match) between the seriesid and the metadata sites that jamu (or Mythtv)
> is getting it's information from?
>
> IOW, can you expand on what the future holds in terms of coupling
> metadata to seriesids other than "best effort" matching on titles?
>

Already explained above.  Artwork will be coupled to recordings like
in mythvideo.  It'll be automatically populated for new recordings
based on their recording rule.

Robert