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Need help troubleshooting movie set art. - badbob001 - 2018-06-17 I can't get my movie sets to show custom poster in kodi 17.6. I have done the following:
https://kodi.wiki/view/Movie_artwork#Movieset_Fanart RE: Need help troubleshooting movie set art. - DanCooper - 2018-06-17 (2018-06-17, 01:22)badbob001 Wrote: I sync the movies in moviesets.You have to sync the movieset, not the movie. (2018-06-17, 01:22)badbob001 Wrote: Does it matter that my movie sets don't have a tmdb collection id? I don't care about scraping movie set info but just want it to use the poster I add manually.No, it's not important and only needed in Ember to scrape the movieset images and informations from TMDb. (2018-06-17, 01:22)badbob001 Wrote: So is it normal to not see anything about the movieset poster in the .nfo file?Yes. Kodi can't handle movieset images, so it's not needed to save the path in the movie NFO. To show the movieset images in Kodi you need the Kodi Interface or an addon like MSAA or AB in Kodi. But the KI in Ember is the easiest way. (2018-06-17, 01:22)badbob001 Wrote: So is the "Kodi MovieSet Artwork Folder" info stored only in the kodi database and not in any nfo file? If I'm using mysql, can I look at the database to confirm this setting is in place?No. The KI and the Kodi addons save the path to the image in the Kodi database like all other images for movies and tv shows. (2018-06-17, 01:22)badbob001 Wrote: On kodi wiki, it mentions that I can just put a movieset-poster.jpg in the folder of each movie. Does that really work?Only with the Kodi addons that are listet on the wiki page. RE: Need help troubleshooting movie set art. - badbob001 - 2018-06-17 I still can't figure out how to get movieset posters to work through EMM, so I set the movieset poster from within kodi itself:
In EMM, when editing a movieset, what is the purpose of the Poster tab? It's unclear where those posters go and what is changed in kodi. Perhaps it's only to support certain addons. RE: Need help troubleshooting movie set art. - DanCooper - 2018-06-18 Please read this tutorial: Link Write again if you've still problems. RE: Need help troubleshooting movie set art. - badbob001 - 2018-06-18 Followed the tutorial more closely with a new movieset but still no luck. Below is what I have and the process tired, which results in the movieset having a generic poster (shows video camera icon). Well, at least it's not using the cover of one of the movieset movies. Following EMM settings in place. Note that _MovietSetArt folder under the Movies folder so network access to the folder is not an issue. Can the underscore in "_MovietSetArt" be an issue? Not sure if the following is needed since the tutorial seems to mix settings needed for MSAA. Note that the path is different format from the one used in the Kodi Interface, per tutorial screenshots. Process when adding
Quote:11:05:38.970 T:17268 DEBUG: CWebServer[8080]: request received for /jsonrpc Checked results on an android instance in case it's a display issue on window instance, but same results. RE: Need help troubleshooting movie set art. - badbob001 - 2018-06-18 Interesting observation: For a movie within the movieset with a generic icon, I fix a typo in the movie's title and then the movieset now has the poster of that movie. I sync the movieset itself and now the movieset icon is back to the generic icon. So does updating a movie break the custom movieset poster? Not a big issue but just have to remember to sync movies again afterwards. RE: Need help troubleshooting movie set art. - DanCooper - 2018-06-18
Summary: If Ember does not know that there is an image then he can't send Kodi a path to that image. RE: Need help troubleshooting movie set art. - badbob001 - 2018-06-18 Thank you! I got it! The missing piece was to not manually place the movieset posters in the shared folder but to add them through the movieset poster tab. What confused me was this part of the tutorial: Quote:You can choose between the standards for the Kodi Interface and the Kodi Addon "MSAA". The two standards use matching and different file names. Also, DiscArts are not supported by MSAA. An overview of the used file names can be found here: LinkThe link to the file names info made me think that I actually have to worry about that detail when it doesn't really matter. RE: Need help troubleshooting movie set art. - DanCooper - 2018-06-18 Ember recognize only file names that are enabled in the "File Naming" settings. There also is an option to set custom file names that are complete deviant from all known standards. The KI can sync ANY path/file name of images to Kodi. The only condition is that you've added the file names to Ember and he recognized it (green flag). The KI simple replace the Ember source (or folder) path with that path you've mapped in the KI Host settings. So long Kodi has the access rights for this path it can show the image in Kodi... even it's "smb://movies/Avatar/my-really-bad-named-poster.jpg". Ember only saves one path to an image in the own database and the preferred on is "Kodi defaults => Kodi Interface => Kodi Addons => Expert File Naming". So usually the default Kodi or Kodi Interface file name will be synced to Kodi. |