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General => Users => Topic started by: Afkpuz on June 21, 2008, 05:44:21 am

Title: How to set all of certain tv show to have same picture
Post by: Afkpuz on June 21, 2008, 05:44:21 am

In the older demo video of linuxmce, they show the guy setting a thumbnail for all the simpson tv shows.  So, when browsing channels with the gyroscopic remote, any time the simpsons are on, there is a tiny picture in that empty sqaure next to each show.  How can I do this?  Thanks

Title: Re: How to set all of certain tv show to have same picture
Post by: seth on June 23, 2008, 05:26:55 pm

 :)
I recently discovered how to do this. It is mostly a 2 step process:

1. Find the image you want for the show, via Amazon.com or IMDB.com and save it to a local directory on the core. So you will need to do this from the web browser in the computing link on you core.

2. From the same browser open a tab or just use the existing window, fire up mythweb http://dcerouter/mythweb.
- click the top link for recording schedules
- click the desired TV show recording
- scroll to the bottom, and there you will see a box to add an image
- add the image you downloaded from the above step. I download mine into a directory under /home/public/data/pictures/show-icons

That's it, now the next time you go to record a show, you icon will be placed in the video menu .vs the Channel Icon.

Hope that helps,

Regards,

Seth

Title: Re: How to set all of certain tv show to have same picture
Post by: Afkpuz on July 08, 2008, 11:15:21 pm

Wow thanks!  That the first time I've ever asked a question and had the answer given in 1 post without needing outside information!  Thanks!  We need more posters like you

Title: Re: How to set all of certain tv show to have same picture
Post by: wombiroller on July 09, 2008, 02:37:49 pm

Ummm - I tried this from a remote machine initially. The first image I added ABC::Lateline got associated to SBS::World News. I changed SBS::World News and it changed the ABC::Lateline image??? I also tried changing the SBS channel icon.

Now when using the TV Guide - EVERY show, not just the ones I tried to change (and the SBS channel) now has a Deep Purple icon from my music collection?!

I tried updating these via mythweb on the actual core again (using a local browse to directory) but no joy...

Anyone else noticed this bug? Have I missed something obvious?

Title: Re: How to set all of certain tv show to have same picture
Post by: tschak909 on July 09, 2008, 09:58:43 pm

have you manually been futzing with the File, Attributes, or File_Attributes table? especially deleting rows?

if so,

live with it.

you've messed up the relations to the database.

When we can come up with a fix for it, we will.

-Thom

Title: Re: How to set all of certain tv show to have same picture
Post by: wombiroller on July 10, 2008, 08:25:25 am

Hey Thom,

Actually now that you mention it, some time ago I did do the following (which fixed my problem) to remove some duplicate UPNP files.. . See: http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=2656.0 (http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=2656.0))

Quote from: tschak909 on September 28, 2007, 03:09:57 am

.....snip.....
SELECT Path from File WHERE Path LIKE '%upnp%';
did any match?

if so,
DELETE from File WHERE Path LIKE '%upnp%';

and that should get rid of them....

-Thom

Seems all threads lead back to your helpful advice  ;D

Do you think this may have caused a problem? To be honest - I don't really need/want the feature - just did it because I could.

Thanks,
Adriel.