2009-12-03, 16:41
Jezz_X Wrote:why would a skin need to be modded to show subtitles ? surely thats part of the video rendering engine ? or am I completely misunderstanding
Just to clarify for other people following this thread - the myth:// source pulls TV show plot information (which has been referred to as subtitles in some places since it also includes the show subtitle), if it is available in MythTV.
The problem is that some skins (like MediaStream that dteirney mentions above) will display that information, and some won't. Since myth shows can't be added to the TV library right now, you have to view the myth recordings in files mode and many skins do not have an episode view that will include this plot information.
The control I posted above displays ListItem.Plot so if there is something there, like in myth view, it will be displayed. Once myth shows can be scanned to the library (or the pvr branch is complete with a myth addon) this will pretty much be unneeded.
@dteirney
Here is a link for the feature request you mentioned above. I think this is a good ideas since it will always display the show title regardless of the skin. http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/7971