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Hi,
I use a programme to insert xmltv data into my WMC EPG. For some of the programmes the xmltv data includes images. When I scroll through the EPG in WMC, these pictures appear in a small window on the screen. Too avoid confusion I am not talking about live images, theses images are from the xmltv data. These images do not appear when I am using the XBMC epg. Is this a current limitation of the plugin or do I have to change a setting somewhere? If it matters, I am using Aeon Nox skin.
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2014-02-17, 00:20
(This post was last modified: 2014-02-17, 00:32 by scarecrow420.)
There should be support for what WMC calls the "GuideImage". If it finds one, ServerWMC will grab the "ImageUIrl" property of the GuideImage object, and will then send that back to XBMC as the "strIconPath" property on EPG entries.
There are 2 server WMC settings that can influence this however the default values of them should mean that image URL are included already.
IsIgnoringEpgImages needs to be set to false
UseImageList will cache images per program title and use the same image again whenever this program is found even if WMC didnt have the image associated
But I dont think these would be your problem, as it's unlikely that you edited the config file by hand and changed these settings.
At a guess I wonder whether your data doesnt actually have the "ImageURL" filled out on the WMC side, therefore we dont find anything to send across. Other thing could be whether the skin you're using actually uses the image data if it's present...
To debug this, we need to get a verbose log of "GetEntries" callback. Edit the config file and change LogReplyMessages to true then restart ServerWMC. Load XBMC (which will kick off GetEntries calls for each channel) then upload the ServerWMC log to pastebin. This will show us what field is getting sent across as the imageURL (if anything is). From there we can know what to do next
If you have heaps of channels/recordings then you might want to set LogReplyMessages back to false again otherwise your log files will have heaps of verbose stuff in them for all of the auto refreshed channel/recordings/EPG queries
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I assume that when this program inserts images they show up in wmc's guide right? If so, check a program in xbmc that doesn't have an image and see if it doesn't have an image in wmc.
Like scarecrow says, we wrote the add-on so that the standard program images that wmc uses are exported to xbmc. These images are web urls. If the images your program gets are stored locally, and assuming swmc is finding them (and I assume it would if wmc is using them), it will just export the file paths to xbmc. If your client is remote these paths won'g work. Is the client a remote machine?
It would be good to get info about this, because if that's the problem we could export these images to external clients like we do with channel icons. Its just that up to now we have only worried seen web urls.
What's the program btw?
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The program images don't show up for me either. I see enlarged images of my channel logos instead of a program image. Do you know what skins the program images are compatible with? No skins I've tried (Confluence, Xperience1080, Xperience1080++, Arctic, AeonMQ5) work with this feature.
All of my images work in WMC.
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Wait, what I have been posting is wrong. Although images are passed to xbmc for the guide programs, I don't know of a skin that displays them - at least I know that confluence does not.
These same images are used for recordings and confluence does display these. I got off track because the OP is using a different database of images to fill the guide.
So really you should be checking your recording images against wmc to test whether they are being displayed. Or find a skin that does display guide images.
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Interesting...
So I still use MCE Buddy to strip out commercials and rename my files so that they get added to my TV shows database. They are only in my recordings folder for a few hours so I'll never see this function.
So does anyone know of a skin that displays these images in the EPG?
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2014-12-13, 03:02
(This post was last modified: 2014-12-13, 03:03 by User 188441.)
(2014-02-17, 00:20)scarecrow420 Wrote: There should be support for what WMC calls the "GuideImage". If it finds one, ServerWMC will grab the "ImageUIrl" property of the GuideImage object, and will then send that back to XBMC as the "strIconPath" property on EPG entries.
It seems strIconPath is not stored in Kodi's EPG database so i compiled a version of the client plugin that stores the EPG image URL in strPlotOutline. Is this something you guys can fix in a future update? or do we have to wait for Kodi Dev to implement striconPath into the database. I also noticed original airdate is not stored in epgdb.
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2014-12-13, 05:16
(This post was last modified: 2014-12-13, 05:18 by User 188441.)
(2014-12-13, 04:46)scarecrow420 Wrote: So to confirm you are saying that XBMC doesn't seem to do anything with the StrIcon field that we populate? How does putting it in strPlotOutline help? Or did you also hack up the XBMC/skin side to display that as well? Are your changes on github?
Correct on both accouts, nothing is done with the StrIcon field and since the skin i use does not use PlotOutline i'm using to hold the epg image. Here is my change on
github
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Ii am confused too. Is this s a bug that was introduced in helix?
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Maybe its something i was doing wrong because i have never been able to get the guide image to display in any version of XBMC. Out of curiosity i would like to who has EPG images working without modifying the serverwmc client.
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Where you have an image in the above pics I have the station call sign
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