2015-05-09, 12:47
Hi All
I'm running Kodi 14.2 on Ubuntu, and have TV Show video sources configured that are available on a NAS drive.
I use Emby (formerly Media Browser) to organise and scrape the media including season folder images and episode thumnails. The path to all of these are stored in the NFO by the Emby NFO saver.
Kodi however doesnt appear to honour the image files stored in that file. Example below.
As you can see, the images are stored in a metadata subfolder of the season.
The same applies to a season folder. Example of a season.nfo below:
My question is whether Kodi should be able to read these images or not? Could the format of the SMB path to the file be any part of the problem? The ubuntu/kodi machine has the smbclient installed and even has the folder mapped via fstab.
I'm able to get Kodi to show the images by moving the episode thumb out of the metadata subfolder and appending -thumb to the end of it. I'm also able to get it to display season folders by moving the folder.jpg file to the root of the TV series and saving it in seasonxx-poster.jpg format. However, that just seems to be working around the problem. It would be much cleaner to leverage the paths in the NFO file (not to mention I have no way to programatically move and rename all the files etc).
Thoughts?
I posted a similar thread on the emby side. Trying to figure out if its an NFO saving thing on the emby side or an NFO reading thing on the Kodi end.
Thanks
Ken
I'm running Kodi 14.2 on Ubuntu, and have TV Show video sources configured that are available on a NAS drive.
I use Emby (formerly Media Browser) to organise and scrape the media including season folder images and episode thumnails. The path to all of these are stored in the NFO by the Emby NFO saver.
Kodi however doesnt appear to honour the image files stored in that file. Example below.
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<episodedetails>
<plot>An armorless Iron Man fights A.I.M.'s latest creation, the Technovore, while A.I.M. goes up against Captain America, Black Panther, and War Machine in an effort to steal the armored avenger's armor.</plot>
<outline />
<lockdata>false</lockdata>
<dateadded>2012-04-10 19:52:11</dateadded>
<title>Alone Against A.I.M.</title>
<originaltitle>Alone Against A.I.M.</originaltitle>
<director>Boyd Kirkland</director>
<writer>Kevin Burke & Chris Wyatt</writer>
<credits>Kevin Burke & Chris Wyatt</credits>
<rating>7.5</rating>
<year>2012</year>
<imdbid>tt1968895</imdbid>
<tvdbid>4299933</tvdbid>
<language>en</language>
<votes>20</votes>
<runtime>23</runtime>
<art>
<poster>\\192.168.15.9\Media\Animation\Avengers - Earths Mightiest Heroes\Season 02\metadata\Avengers - Earths Mightiest Heroes S02E02.jpg</poster>
</art>
<episode>2</episode>
<season>2</season>
<aired>2012-04-07</aired>
<DVD_episodenumber>2</DVD_episodenumber>
<DVD_season>2</DVD_season>
<fileinfo>
<streamdetails>
<audio>
<codec>aac</codec>
<micodec>aac</micodec>
<language>eng</language>
<scantype>progressive</scantype>
<channels>2</channels>
<samplingrate>48000</samplingrate>
<default>True</default>
<forced>True</forced>
</audio>
<video>
<codec>h264</codec>
<micodec>h264</micodec>
<bitrate>773196</bitrate>
<width>852</width>
<height>480</height>
<aspect>16:9</aspect>
<aspectratio>16:9</aspectratio>
<framerate>23.97604</framerate>
<language>eng</language>
<scantype>progressive</scantype>
<default>True</default>
<forced>False</forced>
<duration>23</duration>
<durationinseconds>1356</durationinseconds>
</video>
</streamdetails>
</fileinfo>
</episodedetails>As you can see, the images are stored in a metadata subfolder of the season.
The same applies to a season folder. Example of a season.nfo below:
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<season>
<plot />
<outline />
<lockdata>false</lockdata>
<dateadded>2014-06-07 08:25:17</dateadded>
<title>Season 01</title>
<originaltitle>Season 01</originaltitle>
<art>
<poster>\\192.168.15.9\Media\Animation\Batman - The Brave and the Bold\Season 01\folder.jpg</poster>
<fanart>\\192.168.15.9\Media\Animation\Batman - The Brave and the Bold\Season 01\backdrop.jpg</fanart>
</art>
<seasonnumber>1</seasonnumber>
</season>My question is whether Kodi should be able to read these images or not? Could the format of the SMB path to the file be any part of the problem? The ubuntu/kodi machine has the smbclient installed and even has the folder mapped via fstab.
I'm able to get Kodi to show the images by moving the episode thumb out of the metadata subfolder and appending -thumb to the end of it. I'm also able to get it to display season folders by moving the folder.jpg file to the root of the TV series and saving it in seasonxx-poster.jpg format. However, that just seems to be working around the problem. It would be much cleaner to leverage the paths in the NFO file (not to mention I have no way to programatically move and rename all the files etc).
Thoughts?
I posted a similar thread on the emby side. Trying to figure out if its an NFO saving thing on the emby side or an NFO reading thing on the Kodi end.
Thanks
Ken
