2011-01-17, 12:56
MarcosQui Wrote:If I decided to put the logo on the side was to reclaim the space that was not used, I think a much better solution than having to cut the cover or deform it thenIf one use the actual Blu-ray, HD-DVD and DVD cover art for titles, the logo needs to go on the top to prevent cutting the cover art for Blu-ray and HD-DVD titles.
Here's how my collection looks in Media Center / My Movies. No cover art is cropped and the aspect ratio is preseved for all title types.
And here is how titles show up in xbmc (default Aeon65 "Wall" view):
Notice how the "1" in 2001 is missing, for example, in the xbmc view. This would get even worse by putting the logo on the side for non-DVD titles.
So my vote would be for case logos on the top for Blu-ray/HD-DVD and nothing for DVD in order to preseve all cover art and not distort the aspect ratio.
Btw, I manage my collection using the My Movies Collection Manager. It has a very complete and accurate web service back end that is far superior to the imbd database.
It would be awesome if you could read the "Type" tag from the mymovies.xml file in each movie folder, if available, to determine the which cover type to use. Xbmc already looks for and parses that file to metadata info, if present.
The 3 tags are as follows:
<Type BluRay3D="False" BoxSet="False">Blu-ray</Type>
<Type BluRay3D="False" BoxSet="False">HD DVD</Type>
<Type BluRay3D="False" BoxSet="False">DVD</Type>