Did this work for you mavgink? I don't really understand the bandaid solution.
I think I'm having a related problem. New episodes of TV shows from 2009 that are airing weekly are being scanned in with episode information, but the episode's are missing thumbnails. The cover for the new seasons are also missing thumbnails.
I thought maybe that all TV shows I'm scanning in would not pull in thumbnails now. But I scanned in seasons 1-2 of an older TV show (The Wire), and all the thumbnails and covers for the seasons worked fine.
I've checked thetvdb.com and thumbnails exist for shows that I'm trying to scan (True Blood, Big Bang Theory, etc). I can't seem to get the content on XBMC to pick up the existing thumbnails from thetvdb.com. Even for thumbnails that are set, and hitting Get Thumb, the remote thumb box is empty. I've checked my debug log and it looks like all the thumbs give me a 404, since it's look for the wrong xxxxxxxxxxxxx.jpg value.
Code:
11:57:44 M: 42164224 DEBUG: CApplication::OnKey: 195 pressed, action is 11
11:57:44 M: 42164224 DEBUG: CVideoDatabase::GetEpisodeId (smb://SHAREDMEDIA/Volume_1/TV/The Big Bang Theory/Season 3/The.Big.Bang.Theory.S03E05.HDTV.XviD-LOL.avi), query = select idEpisode from episode where idFile=1387
11:57:45 M: 42151936 DEBUG: CVideoDatabase::GetTvShowsByWhere query: select * from tvshowview where c00='The Big Bang Theory'
11:57:45 M: 42151936 DEBUG: Time for actual SQL query = 545
11:57:45 M: 42151936 DEBUG: Time to retrieve movies from dataset = 46
11:57:45 M: 42164224 INFO: Loading skin file: DialogVideoInfo.xml
11:57:46 M: 42164224 DEBUG: Load DialogVideoInfo.xml: 132.98ms
11:57:46 M: 42139648 DEBUG: Alloc resources: 146.14ms (133.46 ms skin load, 0.57 ms preload)
11:57:46 M: 42139648 DEBUG: XFILE::CFileSMB::Exists(smb://SHAREDMEDIA/Volume_1/TV/The%20Big%20Bang%20Theory/Season%203/The.Big.Bang.Theory.S03E05.HDTV.XviD-LOL.tbn)
11:57:46 M: 42139648 INFO: Get URL: [url]http://images.thetvdb.com/banners/episodes/80379/1175941.jpg[/url]
11:57:47 M: 42102784 ERROR: Server returned: 404 Not Found
11:57:47 M: 42131456 INFO: Loading skin file: DialogBusy.xml
11:57:47 M: 42131456 DEBUG: Load DialogBusy.xml: 96.31ms
11:57:47 M: 42131456 DEBUG: Alloc resources: 96.99ms (96.98 ms skin load, 0.00 ms preload)
11:57:47 M: 41455616 DEBUG: CApplication::OnKey: 195 pressed, action is 11
11:57:49 M: 41455616 DEBUG: CApplication::OnKey: 166 pressed, action is 3
11:57:51 M: 41455616 DEBUG: CApplication::OnKey: 11 pressed, action is 7
11:57:51 M: 41443328 DEBUG: XFILE::CFileSMB::Exists(smb://SHAREDMEDIA/Volume_1/TV/The%20Big%20Bang%20Theory/Season%203/The.Big.Bang.Theory.S03E05.HDTV.XviD-LOL.tbn)
11:57:51 M: 41443328 INFO: Loading skin file: FileBrowser.xml
11:57:51 M: 41443328 DEBUG: Load FileBrowser.xml: 32.67ms
11:57:51 M: 40910848 INFO: Get URL: [url]http://images.thetvdb.com/banners/episodes/80379/1175941.jpg[/url]
11:57:51 M: 40902656 DEBUG: Alloc resources: 13.16ms (0.00 ms skin load, 0.41 ms preload)
11:57:52 M: 40808448 ERROR: Server returned: 404 Not Found
11:57:54 M: 41369600 DEBUG: CApplication::OnKey: 169 pressed, action is 1
11:57:54 M: 41361408 DEBUG: CApplication::OnKey: 167 pressed, action is 4
11:57:55 M: 41361408 DEBUG: CApplication::OnKey: 11 pressed, action is 7
11:57:58 M: 41455616 DEBUG: CApplication::OnKey: 216 pressed, action is 51