2013-01-07, 17:38
(2013-01-06, 23:57)Montellese Wrote: This is more of a problem on how or rather when XBMC retrieves the details for an item. When you view it in the GUI, it gets the details directly from the plugin and has it available when you queue it. Through JSON-RPC there's only the filename/stream URL and it doesn't look up the information. IMO there should be some logic to retrieve those details before adding the item to the playlist but I'm not sure if that's even possible with plugins right now (i.e. retrieving details for a single item).
True, the best thing would be if xbmc can resolve the information itself but I think that this is never going to work if you just pass a http url because xbmc cannot associate it to any plugin and has therefore no chance to get the thumbnail. On the other side if you queue a youtube video using a youtube:// url there is already some logic to resolve the thumbnail properly (when adding to the queue thumbnail and label are blank, but when playback starts the proper information is resolved)