[lviperz]

So it appears the problem is with the mythtv addon. I disabled the artwork option as you suggested. I did have to manually find the correct artwork for all of my recordings, but once I did the random pvr artwork background and thumbnail started working correctly. I'll get with the mythtv addon developer for more on this.

However, I did also notice the recent recordings and tv channels are not working. The recent recordings is showing the wrong items as recent. It's looking at the oldest recordings and only listing those. The channels widget is blank.

I am not suprised, somehow there are always some suprises with the mythtv pvr. I already have some workarounds in the code because their output is never the same as the other pvr backends. So in this case I guess this is the same.
Can somebody provide me access to their mythtv setup so I can once-and for all adjust the code to support that backend ?

What do you need for access? Maybe I can help.

I did just post a question about the files without the extension in the mythtv addon forum.
UPDATE from post in mythtv addon forum: http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=...pid2542667

Others skins work right with fanart. If this skin transforms images then it should handle the type using magic number or header. Images in addon cache use type jpeg or png.

I also noticed if I turn off your skin helpers from doing pvr art and only use the fanart from the addon I get the correct artwork for the recordings. So I'm assuming the addon isn't passing all of the correct metadata for automatic lookup.