Permanently switch off fetching covert art etc. from the 'net and use local sources only
Posted: Tue May 11, 2021 11:17 am
Hello,
I've got a myth box which contains media exclusively taken from 4 sources:
1. Music ripped from my CD collection.
2. Video ripped from my DVD collection.
3. Music personally created by myself (with others)
4. Videos personally created by myself (with others)
The problem I've got is that Myth keeps downloading cover art and descriptions from the net for my personal stuff which is obviously totally wrong ! e.g. A series of videos of one of my bands performing several years ago (which was split into individual songs) has been identified as episodes of "Mighty Mouse" so when you select it in Mythfrontend you get a picture of "Mighty Mouse" and, when you select a video, you then get a description of a "Mighty Mouse" episode. At first this was slightly amusing but it's now started to really bug me
What I would *really* like to do is be able to permanently switch off Myth going to the internet for cover art and descriptions and instead to always use an image file and a text description file from the same directory that contains the media files. If neither are present then a blank image and no description is fine (infinitely better than something that's randomly wrong !).
I have read the forums, plus various topis on the 'net, but am not clear on how to do this ? or indeed if it's possible ? (If it isn't I'd like to raise this as a feature request).
e.g. If I have a directory "/var/lib/mythtv/videos/2012-04-21 The Delmars, Blackpool" containing a series of video clips I'd like to be able to place the following files:
"/var/lib/mythtv/videos/2012-04-21 The Delmars, Blackpool/Cover.jpg"
"/var/lib/mythtv/videos/2012-04-21 The Delmars, Blackpool/Description.txt"
I would then like Myth to use those files (n.b. the actual file names aren't important so I don't mind what they are - as long as there's a clear standard to follow)
Like I say the current situation, whereby Myth is pulling "random" cover art and descriptions off the internet is slightly amusing. But also very irritating. I'd like to be in control and simply don't want it going off to the internet and making my collection look like a disordered mess of random crap
Obviously most people will be happy with the current situation so I'd like this to be an optional global switch which you can set which will be respected by all myth plugins etc.
Cheers.
I've got a myth box which contains media exclusively taken from 4 sources:
1. Music ripped from my CD collection.
2. Video ripped from my DVD collection.
3. Music personally created by myself (with others)
4. Videos personally created by myself (with others)
The problem I've got is that Myth keeps downloading cover art and descriptions from the net for my personal stuff which is obviously totally wrong ! e.g. A series of videos of one of my bands performing several years ago (which was split into individual songs) has been identified as episodes of "Mighty Mouse" so when you select it in Mythfrontend you get a picture of "Mighty Mouse" and, when you select a video, you then get a description of a "Mighty Mouse" episode. At first this was slightly amusing but it's now started to really bug me
What I would *really* like to do is be able to permanently switch off Myth going to the internet for cover art and descriptions and instead to always use an image file and a text description file from the same directory that contains the media files. If neither are present then a blank image and no description is fine (infinitely better than something that's randomly wrong !).
I have read the forums, plus various topis on the 'net, but am not clear on how to do this ? or indeed if it's possible ? (If it isn't I'd like to raise this as a feature request).
e.g. If I have a directory "/var/lib/mythtv/videos/2012-04-21 The Delmars, Blackpool" containing a series of video clips I'd like to be able to place the following files:
"/var/lib/mythtv/videos/2012-04-21 The Delmars, Blackpool/Cover.jpg"
"/var/lib/mythtv/videos/2012-04-21 The Delmars, Blackpool/Description.txt"
I would then like Myth to use those files (n.b. the actual file names aren't important so I don't mind what they are - as long as there's a clear standard to follow)
Like I say the current situation, whereby Myth is pulling "random" cover art and descriptions off the internet is slightly amusing. But also very irritating. I'd like to be in control and simply don't want it going off to the internet and making my collection look like a disordered mess of random crap
Obviously most people will be happy with the current situation so I'd like this to be an optional global switch which you can set which will be respected by all myth plugins etc.
Cheers.