2011-03-17, 09:34
I have been on this for two days now. Searching the net, reading all the wiki's, trying endlessly different methods but can't find anything that will fix this.
Bottom line, I can't get my locally stored movie covers to be used in XBMC. IT just continues to scrape and use its own. Setup is like this.
- XBMC 10.1 (just updated the other day)
- Aeon Showmix 2.7 (also just updated the other day from the forum)
- Windows 7
- Every movie is in it's own folder with folder.jpg
From what I've read, XBMC looks for moviename.tbn first and if it finds nothing, it looks for folder.jpg and if it finds nothing, it scrapes it online.
I use starkcovers. That renames my folder.jpg's into folder.png's so I put an advancedsettings xml into my userdata folder.
Still nothing. It doesn't pick up the folder.png files. So I used a renamer and made them all folder.jpg's thinking that for some reason, the advancedsettings xml didn't work but still nothing. XBMC refuses to pick them up and continues to scrape it's own cover online.
Did some more reading. Shut down XBMC and deleted the thumbnail folder and the movie database folder. Noticed all the .tbn's in the thumbnail folder so it was scraping when I have locally stored metadata.
Loaded XBMC back up, imported and nothing. No covers, backdrops, nothing. Removed source, re-added and everything came back except the movie covers are still not being used locally and it's scraping online.
Ideally, I want XBMC to read my folder.png's but I can handle if I have to use a renamer all the time and make the folder.jpg's but I can't even get that to work.
Any idea's? I checked the logs and seems XBMC was loading my advancedsettings xml but given XBMC is not even using my folder.jpg images, I can understand why the xml didn't work as it just continues to scrape.
Thanks
Bottom line, I can't get my locally stored movie covers to be used in XBMC. IT just continues to scrape and use its own. Setup is like this.
- XBMC 10.1 (just updated the other day)
- Aeon Showmix 2.7 (also just updated the other day from the forum)
- Windows 7
- Every movie is in it's own folder with folder.jpg
From what I've read, XBMC looks for moviename.tbn first and if it finds nothing, it looks for folder.jpg and if it finds nothing, it scrapes it online.
I use starkcovers. That renames my folder.jpg's into folder.png's so I put an advancedsettings xml into my userdata folder.
Code:
<advancedsettings>
<dvdthumbs>
<remove>folder.jpg</remove>
<add>folder.png</add>
</dvdthumbs>
</advancedsettings>
Still nothing. It doesn't pick up the folder.png files. So I used a renamer and made them all folder.jpg's thinking that for some reason, the advancedsettings xml didn't work but still nothing. XBMC refuses to pick them up and continues to scrape it's own cover online.
Did some more reading. Shut down XBMC and deleted the thumbnail folder and the movie database folder. Noticed all the .tbn's in the thumbnail folder so it was scraping when I have locally stored metadata.
Loaded XBMC back up, imported and nothing. No covers, backdrops, nothing. Removed source, re-added and everything came back except the movie covers are still not being used locally and it's scraping online.
Ideally, I want XBMC to read my folder.png's but I can handle if I have to use a renamer all the time and make the folder.jpg's but I can't even get that to work.
Any idea's? I checked the logs and seems XBMC was loading my advancedsettings xml but given XBMC is not even using my folder.jpg images, I can understand why the xml didn't work as it just continues to scrape.
Thanks