Low resolution fanart

[mvallevand]

Great thanks.

Martin

[QDivision]

Another small query about art...if a show has been 'seen' (an XML was created in the shows cache) by the EPG but there was no art at that time. Will NPVR attempt to search for art in future for that show next time the show is selected in EPG?

[QDivision]

Also, a point on the fallback approach...

It may be worth having a fallback disable parameter in the GET request for the times where you would prefer no artwork being returned if the requested art is not available. I.e. if requesting fanart you don't want to fallback to landscape (low Res) or poster (would be stretched) but if requesting a poster you may accept the other two?

[mvallevand]

It will not recheck for art but the NextTool utility can clean out all the empty cached catalogs.

I agree that fanart should not fallback to junk. It's one thing in the web client but when you look at a fullscreen background 65" it can be bad.

Martin

[QDivision]

It will not recheck for art but the NextTool utility can clean out all the empty cached catalogs.

I agree that fanart should not fallback to junk. It's one thing in the web client but when you look at a fullscreen background 65" it can be bad.

Martin

I was not aware of that tool, thanks for the heads up!

[mvallevand]

@QDivision note that Kodi won't re-download art for your recordings because the URL's and images are stored in the texture cache. The fix to Kodi I made will avoid that because the URL changed but you may need to delete the cache if you want to use a NextPVR based setting See https://kodi.wiki/view/Artwork/Cache for more info. Deleting the database will not delete the cached images either.

Martin

[QDivision]

Hi @sub,

The 2nd .dll you posted doesn't seem to work in conjunction with that config change (the 1st .dll worked).

I have set '<DefaultToFanartForKodi>true</DefaultToFanartForKodi>' in 'General' but the landscapes are still being sent (I have wiped Kodi image cache).

This may not matter if Martin has fixed the plugin for Nexus and I upgrade Kodi.

[mvallevand]

There will be testbuilds for Nexus as soon as the Omega build gets approved by Team Kodi. I will let you know so you can confirm.

Martin

[mvallevand]

The testbuilds for Nexus are here https://jenkins.kodi.tv/blue/organizatio.../artifacts if you want to see if it helps.

Martin

[QDivision]

Finally got around to updating Kodi and tried the test build, looks like it's solved the problem.

Thanks Martin!