Artwork for Live TV

[Dumyat]

Hi Folks,
I've recently started using NextPVR as my preferred choice of server for Live TV. I have all my channels configured correctly on the backend, which play with no issue in Kodi.

One thing I'm particularly interested in, is hearing from users who use the artwork feature for their TV channels and how you deal with artwork exceptions/mismatches that can often occur when downloaded from the TVDB site, ie TV Shows that are identified as Movies and vice versa.

I currently have a number of mismatches in my 'Shows' folder that I would like to fix in order for them to display correctly in Kodi. I thought it was going to be a simple case of just manually over writing the current images with the correct artwork image(s) and this would appear in Kodi, once re-started or the Guide data cleared/refreshed.  
Unfortunately, that method didn't seem to work for me, so wanted to know how other users solve this problem of mismatched artwork in Kodi?
Is there a way to refresh the old artwork with the new in Kodi?

Also, when no artwork is identified on the TVDB site and artwork is added manually, is it necessary to actually include the programme and episode details on the catalog.xml file or is the path to the artwork files sufficient?

Please accept my apologies if I've posted in the wrong section, but I couldn't find anywhere dedicated specifically for artwork, hence the reason for posting in the Windows section as that is the platform I use the most.

Any feedback would be much appreciated.
Cheers

[mvallevand]

The simplest way if you want to save time to spend a few dollars a month use Schedules Direct as your EPG source since the art is typically matched very well, the metadata is very rich, and the poster and landscape art is correct.

I think using the NextPVR.exe there is a way to do this through the Video Library, but I had issues in v5 that I haven't checked for a long time. In v4 it worked pretty well

Martin

[Dumyat]

Cheers Martin.
Yeah, I used to have a Schedules Direct subscription and remember the artwork was pretty accurate, even for live sports events as I remember.
I was previously using the Skin Helper Script for my liveTV artwork when I was using the E2/VU+ Client and downloading everything to a local directory. Have about 14GB of artwork compiled over a 4 year period, but its all filed in separate folders based on the EPG Programme Title, so would take forever transferring them into the NextPVR folder just in order to satisfy my OCD with artwork for live TV.

I take it none of the NextPVR artwork ever gets deleted/removed, unless I un-install the server?

[mvallevand]

Correct the art stays forever unless you do your own maintenance. If it take too much for live tv you can turn it off and you will just get the channel logo, Without SD it will also be a bit faster scrolling in the EPG.

Martin