Show artwork method

[psycik]

"http://%s:%d/service?method=recording.artwork&sid=%s&recording_id=%s"

Should I get a result from this when running against 3.3.8? And what will it return if the show does not have art?

I just seem to get a 404 every time I try it from a browser.

[sub]

Yes, that should work. You may need to ensure you've got the latest patches from the sticky post in the support thread.

If it's not working for you, check you can see the recording artwork in NextPVR itself. You could also check for "StreamArtwork()" in the web.log to ensure it's being called.

Yes, it'll return a 404 if not found.

[mvallevand]

Is it possible that it only looks in Media\Shows for art?

Martin

[sub]

It is looking for the png/jpg in the of the same name, or folder.jpg, or showname.jpg/.png in media\shows.

[psycik]

So would I assume if there's a file The.tonight.show-banner.jpg the I'd want the recording.banner method?

[sub]

It wouldn't currently return that, but would return a The.tonight.show.jpg for your The.tonight.show.ts file. I can add a method=recording.banner for the next release if you need it.

[psycik]

No I prefer the artwork ones.

So I've just tried a manual request and received a 404 with this in the web.log:

Code:

2015-04-03 09:12:45.261    [DEBUG][68]    Got Web Request (192.168.1.41): /services    method=recording.artwork&sid=plex&recording_id=25885
2015-04-03 09:12:45.261    [DEBUG][68]    method=recording.artwork
2015-04-03 09:12:45.261    [DEBUG][68]    parameters:
2015-04-03 09:12:45.261    [DEBUG][68]       method: recording.artwork
2015-04-03 09:12:45.261    [DEBUG][68]       sid: plex
2015-04-03 09:12:45.261    [DEBUG][68]       recording_id: 25885
2015-04-03 09:12:45.261    [DEBUG][68]       client_ip: 192.168.1.41
2015-04-03 09:12:45.261    [DEBUG][68]       host_callback: morgoth:8866
2015-04-03 09:12:45.261    [DEBUG][68]       physical_path: C:\Users\Public\NPVR\web\
2015-04-03 09:12:45.261    [DEBUG][68]       user_agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2272.101 Safari/537.36
2015-04-03 09:12:45.261    [DEBUG][68]       range:
2015-04-03 09:12:45.261    [DEBUG][68]       requested_path: /services
2015-04-03 09:12:45.261    [DEBUG][68]       verb: GET
2015-04-03 09:12:45.261    [ERROR][68]    System.Web.HttpException (0x80004005): File does not exist.
   at System.Web.StaticFileHandler.GetFileInfo(String virtualPathWithPathInfo, String physicalPath, HttpResponse response)
   at System.Web.StaticFileHandler.ProcessRequestInternal(HttpContext context, String overrideVirtualPath)
   at System.Web.DefaultHttpHandler.BeginProcessRequest(HttpContext context, AsyncCallback callback, Object state)
   at System.Web.HttpApplication.CallHandlerExecutionStep.System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Execute()
   at System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep step, Boolean& completedSynchronously)

When i look on the media\shows folder I physically created a "Best Bits.jpg" (renamed a banner file).


According to my config.xml I'm on 3.3.8 *Nextpvr.exe is dated 26/10/2014. And it doesn't look like it's chucking out my request - but can't find what its supposed to be looking for.

[sub]

As a first step, are you seeing the artwork in NextPVR's Recordings screen?

[psycik]

When looking at a recording to play? No.

I've got to go out for a bit - am I better to look at a later version as a first step?

[sub]

3.3.8 should give you this. I can't remember if you need the most recent patches from johnsonx42's sticky thread to get it working via the method=recording.artwork though.

For common shows, usually US/UK source shows, the recording service will automatically download artwork and name it appropriately. In this case, usually clicking enter on a show in the TV Guide before recording is enough to see if their is artwork available - a couple of seconds after the popup is shown, the artwork will appear on the left of the popup if it was available. The same artwork will downloaded when recording.

If you're making the artwork yourself, you've obviously got to get the file names right. If you've got a file called "The Saint_20150403_10001100.ts", then the same directory can have a "The Saint_20150403_10001100.jpg" or "The Saint_20150403_10001100.png", or the directory can have a "folder.jpg" or "folder.png". Alternatively a "The Saint.jpg" or "The Saint.png" could be in "C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Media\Shows".