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docwra
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My 2 pence....
Local artwork -> Kodi Core
Metadata site artwork -> Kodi scrapers
Additional artwork/management/selection -> Artwork Beef
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Feature Request: Is it possible to prefer another file extension of antworks local storaged?
For e.g. logo.gif insteand of logo.png, poster.gif instead of poster.jpg, fanart.gif instead of fanart.jpg
Especially for Movies and also Moviesets?
In kodi itself we can choose .gif's manually without addons, works fine! But always when reloading Arts via Addon all is gone and got falling back to .jpg and .png.
In web there are some threats for animated arts and also on pinterest and giphy there are huge data of animated Arts.
Average every tenth movie of my db there are animated arts local storaged.
Would be nice if there would be a way to automate it to load it in kodi. These arts are very cool but always load in manually into kodi is very sad thing.
Thanks for reply of my request.
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So I'm not sure what's going on but all Add-ons and Skins attempting to grab from Fanart.TV are not working for me. One weird part about it is that it can see and read from the site, but the logos and art it pulls is invisible (also invisible in the GUI when trying to select it)
It'll even download the Logo, but it too is invisible... Has anyone else come across this?
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Thanks for the advancedsettings.xml
I was wondering if this should be included in the basic kodi install though. Surely people will want to pick up these types of files be default?
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Using advancedsettings.xml to configure what art is fetched locally is just my initial approach to configurable art for music. Avoiding it being hard coded into core is a huge step forwards, but using advancedsettings.xml has weaknesses. It is not a best place to set default behaviour, and some devs want to deprecate advancedsettings.xml completely.
Thinking aloud an actual setting would possibly be better long term, something that an addon (or skin) could set even? Then again, only advanced users would want control of this flexibility. Or for now a non-empty default value in Cadvancedsettings, but that becomes a hard coded thing again by the back door (just not as hard to change as burried in other code would be).