Quote:I've got plenty of fan art but it still is driven to squish the posters/art into unreadable spaces... anyone else on an ATV2 able to replicate this?
When you check 'prefer posters' all that does is it sets the internal scraper (when not using locally stored info) to look for posters rather than banners for your TV shows.
When XBMC scrapes your local media, it will always look for the file "folder.jpg" and store that image as the thumbnail... it does not pay any attention to files named 'banner' or 'poster'.
So here is where it can get confusing. Every skin author has their preference as to what the default image should be. For the default skin Confluence, the author prefers banners, so his skin assumes that 'folder.jpg' is a banner, and displays it as a banner sized image. If 'folder.jpg' is a poster, it stretches it to fill the space. But, there is an option in the skin to use posters. In that case, the skin ignores 'folder.jpg' and looks for the file 'poster.jpg'.
Conversly, Jeroen would seem to prefer posters. So this skin assumes that 'folder.jpg' is a poster, and adjusts that image to fit in a poster sized space. If it happens to be a banner, then it squishes it to fit the space. But, there is an option to use banners, so if this is selected, 'folder.jpg' is ignored and 'banner.jpg' is used.
I know this is a bit a an oversimplification, but it gives you the idea. The real take away from this discussion is that you need to look at the file 'folder.jpg' in your media directories and make sure they are posters if you want to use ReFocus (i'm assuming they are not). You can change them manually, or you could use the new 'artwork downloader' script to download the posters (it gives you the option use a banner or poster for 'folder.jpg').
Now here is the real pain. in order to get this to show up in your library, you are going to need to 1) go to the info screen for each show and do a refresh using locally stored data, 2) delete that source from XBMC, then re-add it and let it scrape everything from scratch. (if anyone has a better way to accomplish this, please let me know).
Maybe someday the developers will change it where XBMC doesn't use 'folder.jpg' but instead stores both the banner and the poster image. But, this is likely low on the priority list (or may be painful change, since it would require a change to the underlying database structure used by the library, as well as a change to every tv show scraper out there).
Hope this helps.