[Hound]

The Fanart icons work fine in files, but when I go into movies to browse through my movies the fancy way, only a couple fanart thumbnails load and the rest take awhile to load.

There is a significant delay before the next fanart is shown, is there anything I can do to fix to this issue?

Thanks

[Dufu]

I'm having this problem too, very annoying. I also have to wait until the fanart is loaded before I can slide to the next movie.

[coregis]

You can try converting to .dds files, another compression method which should be faster to load than jpg.

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=ThumbnailCache

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...hlight=dds

Basically you can set the switch in advancedsettings to use .dds art, supposedly it will convert automatically for new ones, but I had to convert everything myself.

I converted my userdata/thumbnails/videos/fanart folder and it helped a lot, though I never noticed that it was faster in files vs library so no guarantees.

Install Nvidia texture tools from here http://developer.nvidia.com/object/texture_tools.html

Here's a relevant post from that huge thread with a windows batch file, buried a million posts in (the zip file in the OP was never there or whatever), obviously you can do the same in bash:

open notepad and paste this code into it
Code:

ren *.tbn *.jpg
for %%x in (*.jpg) do "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\NVIDIA Texture Tools 2\bin\nvcompress.exe" -fast -bc1 %%x
ren *.jpg *.tbn

save the file as a .bat file in your fanart folder and run it from there to convert them to dds.

[Hound]

Weird, my userdata/thumbnails/videos/fanart folder is empty. I cannot seem to find where fanart thumbnails get downloaded too.

[Hitcher]

Look in your users folder.

[Hitcher]

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=78365

[Hound]

My fanart folder is all .tbns, is this normal?

[>>X<<]

My fanart folder is all .tbns, is this normal?

Yes