(2022-04-03, 12:57)latts9923 Wrote: @Juan Mortyme
I added Disney Plus, Netflix, etc. to the videocodec flag to give folks the option to show the streaming service icon. The studio is not necessarily Disney Plus or Netflix.
Darn it...OK, I'll take another look at the code for the webTV icon. And I'll look at adding a mediatype flag like MQ 8 displays.
Fair enough, I was a wee bit confused as to the motive behind that and while I don't agree with it I suppose others might want do it.
Just to play devil's advocate for a minute I see a couple of consequences. For anyone mucking about with the codec tag in their nfo files they should realize they are painting themselves into a corner, much like I did when I changed all my mpaa tags to CA. Now if I want to try any other skins, not that I do, but if at some point I do, I'll have to edit/mod them to get the Canadian mpaa icons to work. In this case they will be braking the video codec on other skins they may try. The other thing is one could see this as the thin edge of the wedge. After all in this day and age very little content on any network or streaming service is actually produced by that network/platform. In fact even when they are the producer it's quite common to create a new one-off production company for each new project undertaken for tax and liability reasons. Therefor one could imagine the list of requested network/platform icons growing.
Anyway, I doubt anyone will be deterred but I think it's worth pointing out potential drawbacks.
Having said that, giving users options is never a bad thing so good on you for being so accommodating.
If you are able to get the webtv and video codec to display simultaneously that could possibly be a different means to same end without changing the video codec tag. Instead add a trigger like ".dplus" or ".nflix" in the file name to display a streaming service much like ".web" does now. That might be a better way even as it stands now, this method won't break the video codec when using other skins or require a redo of the nfo file should it be overwritten? Just a little food for thought.
