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jarpublic at gmail

Nov 6, 2009, 3:49 PM

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How to choose alternate fanart/coverart

On themoviedb and thetvdb there are usually multiple options available
for much of the fanart, coverart, etc. Is there some way within
mythvideo or with Jamu to select an alternate image for the artwork?
Or is the first one that comes up the only one available? If this is
not possible within mythtv, is the only current option to manually
replace the relevant files? Also if this isn't currently an option is
it slated for .23?

I seem to remember reading somewhere that random artwork was
supported. I think I recall reading that Robert had done this with
Graphite. Is this just for menu backgrounds? Or could I put multiple
different fanart images for a given show and have a random one used
each time I navigated to that show? How would I go about doing this if
it is possible?
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r.d.vaughan at rogers

Nov 6, 2009, 4:52 PM

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Re: How to choose alternate fanart/coverart [In reply to]

Johnny,
For TV Series MythVideo has the ability to grab different graphics
for different seasons. When multiple graphics are available the top
rated (rated by users of TVDB) are chosen in the order of the highest to
lowest rated. For instance if there are multiple fanart graphics a
different fanart graphic is assigned to different seasons. E.g. "24
Season 1_fanart.jpg" and "24 Season 2_fanart.jpg" would be the first and
second highest rated fanart graphics for the TV Series 24.

Jamu does not download different graphics for any one type. What is
downloaded is more random although the fan art and series poster are the
top rated.

Until the release of a new TMDB v2.1 api the selection of multiple
fan art graphics for movies is not available. When the v2.1 api is
available the grabber for TMDB will need to be upgraded to the new api
and be changed to return multiple graphic links. This has been talked
about for 0.23.

Doug
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