At the moment I am finding that I can't get pictures for most TV episodes. The TVDB plugin doesn't yet import them, and most IMDB episode entries have no pictures.
I would like thumbnails for all my TV episodes, and I think the best way to ensure this is to have an option to automatically use the Master TV show picture against each episode (i..e use the picture/poster found for the TV show itself.)
So the option would specify "TV episodes use TV show picture if no episode picture is available"
If this is selected:
- Each TV episode is automatically populated with the picture stored against the TV show definition itself.
- This happens when the TV Show master definition is created, or updated:
- On creation: After fetching the photo for the Master TV show definition, it would then populate this picture to every episode definition that it has just created
- On edit/update: Every time the Master TV show definition picture changes, it would then scan each episode - if any does not have a picture, it writes the Master TV show picture to them
- On edit/update: It should NOT overwrite any episode that does have a picture. i.e. if a user has manually added a picture, or a plugin has found one for a given episode, this should not be overwritten by the Master TV show picture
This will ensure that every episode has a picture, defaulting to the Master TV show picture if no specific one can be found for that episode.
Thanks in advance
Tom