2013-09-18, 10:37
Hi there
I'd like to download art to go with my movies and tv shows, and use that art instead of whatever is getting picked up.
I have the Confluence skin on a Pi running Raspbmc, wired connection samba share from a headless Ubuntu server.
I have all my movies in a single folder at the moment, and I read that I could save a picture as moviename.jpg and keep it in the same folder, and it would work just fine. It has not worked for me yet. I've also tried putting a single movie in its own folder with its own fanart.jpg, and got nothing there either.
My method for getting movie art to the media folders has been to go find a picture I like, on Google or IMDB or wherever, copy the link to FindingNemo.jpg (or whatever), ssh in and wget that image to the movie directory. Then I rename to whatever the movie file name is, reboot the Pi, and cry that it didn't work.
I'm not sure if:
A) This is not a possible thing on the pi over Samba. I read a few contradictory things.
B) I've got a setting wrong on the Pi somewhere. I know I saw a choice of Banners or Posters somewhere, but I can't find it now. I also know there's something about scraping, but I don't know if the jpg in the samba directory would over rule that, or how to set that.
C) I've got the wrong files/wrong names/wrong layout.
Also possibly important, I do not currently have .nfo files. I'm happy to create by hand, if a test would be helpful.
I'd like to download art to go with my movies and tv shows, and use that art instead of whatever is getting picked up.
I have the Confluence skin on a Pi running Raspbmc, wired connection samba share from a headless Ubuntu server.
I have all my movies in a single folder at the moment, and I read that I could save a picture as moviename.jpg and keep it in the same folder, and it would work just fine. It has not worked for me yet. I've also tried putting a single movie in its own folder with its own fanart.jpg, and got nothing there either.
My method for getting movie art to the media folders has been to go find a picture I like, on Google or IMDB or wherever, copy the link to FindingNemo.jpg (or whatever), ssh in and wget that image to the movie directory. Then I rename to whatever the movie file name is, reboot the Pi, and cry that it didn't work.
I'm not sure if:
A) This is not a possible thing on the pi over Samba. I read a few contradictory things.
B) I've got a setting wrong on the Pi somewhere. I know I saw a choice of Banners or Posters somewhere, but I can't find it now. I also know there's something about scraping, but I don't know if the jpg in the samba directory would over rule that, or how to set that.
C) I've got the wrong files/wrong names/wrong layout.
Also possibly important, I do not currently have .nfo files. I'm happy to create by hand, if a test would be helpful.