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A lot has happened over the last couple of days. Thanks to C-Quel providing me with an updated tvdb scraper, i've been able to work on the data side of things. I'm happy to say that at this point, I have the Fanart data being scraped, saved, and available to the InfoLabels.
IOW at this point, in a basic state, Fanart is working! However with that said, there is a lot of cleanup and optimization that will need to be done. Since i'm unfamiliar with a lot of the code i'm working with, i'll talk to JM tonight about that. Also theres bound to be bugs :p In addition at this time the fanart support is limited to only the first returned fanart from TVDB, and local fanart is not supported.
Despite that though, the fact is we're really close and I would expect something to hit SVN within the next few days.
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sounds great man! Looking forward to it. Now if only I can get a replacement motherboard and I could actually USE xbmc for once
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Great work agathorn. Can't wait to get to work on this! Cheers.
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added: skin conditional "Fanart.HasFanart" returns true if the TV show has a fanart image available, false if not
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Yeah, I've been thinking more and more about those colors. They're not too useful now since they wash out and tend to be all light for light images and all dark for dark ones. Perhaps I should switch it to allow the artist to specify light, medium, and dark highlight colors? I could leave the current colors field and make another one, or just switch the current one to match.
One question, are you agathorn, or has anybody else, considered adding support for localized fan art, ie fanart.jpg that you put in the root of that show's folder? I have a very large database of tv shows and I try to keep everything I can local so that I'm not spending as many hours and hours redownloading all the images everytime I do a clean install of XBMC. The only thing about that is that you would probably need some way of specifying the color themes associated with the file.
