Re: Fwd: Schedules Direct EPG images

On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 12:13 PM
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Does xmltv pull images from Schedules Direct?
>
> https://github.com/SchedulesDirect/JSON-Service/wiki/Retrieving-Images.
>
> My EPG never has any images in it and I'm wondering if I am suppose to
> add a flag to the cmd "xmltv.exe tv_grab_zz_sdjson --days 3 --output
> C:\xmltv\guide.xml"

Previously asked and answered on the master
tv_grab_zz_sdjson_sqlite github repo.

In summary, while there is a legacy field for episode
images in the upstream data, and the code does
include the reference if provided, it is not directly
provided at this time (I don't recall if it was ever
provided, but it has not been for quite some time now).

Instead, the "reference" to image artwork has been
provided, and metadata images can be retrieved by
the application requesting the metadata getting the
entire list (potentially dozens) of possible items, and
choosing which, if any, types (potentially from banner
format to individual cast photos) as appropriate, and
retrieving them directly.  The reference to be used
to retrieve the metadata is passed along as the
dd_progid in the episode tag.