What is it about?
Only exclusive for movies there is a own container for directors available in Kodi.
In most skins (also the Kodi standard skin) there is a place to show a director thumb in the views intended. But it will either display nothing or a simple fallback image.
With this addon and the addition of one single line of code in a .xml of your skin, you can make visible directors thumbnails in your skin.
Showcase on Aeon MQ7 (Kodi skin i use most)
Showcase on Estuary (Kodi standard skin)
I am a bit surprised that in all the kodi years nothing has been implemented in such a native way. I searched a lot in the forum, some members who are familiar with coding wrote down some thoughts in some threads to implement it, but never ever heard anything about it, and also never such a thing was released in that way.
However, i have to mention there is sure another way to implement director thumbs. But it needs SkinHelper and runs via webservice, which means that internet connection is always necessary and also slower.
Look here https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid...ctor+thumb and here https://github.com/kodi-community-addons...Webservice
Thanks @Angelinas who making me aware of this alternative possible integrating solution.
Pros of the SkinHelper webservice implementation:
Cons of the SkinHelper webservice implementation:
Pros of my Recource Addon implementation:
Cons of my Resource Addon implemention:
¹On post #2 there are implementation tutorials and also a ready usable paste/copy solution for the Kodi standard skin Estuary,
please also ask the skin maintainer how to find the right .xml file and .xml code section.
Also ask them politely if they could implement.
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DOWNLOAD LINK TO THE ADDON ONLY (EMPTY, WITHOUT DIRECTOR THUMBS):
resource.images.moviedirectorthumbs.zip
File size packed and unpacked ≈0,5MB
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wqdJzow...sp=sharing
-> download and install from zip in Kodi
DOWNLOAD LINK TO THE DIRECTOR THUMBS RESOURCES COLLECTION:
directorthumb_collection.rar
Total directorthumb count ≈137.000, ≈20.000 with real thumbs and ≈117.000 with fallback thumbs
File size packed ≈2GB
File size unbacked ≈4,5GB
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sKlJQBL...sp=sharing
-> download, extract and then move all (or only needed) thumbs in the resources folder in the already installed addon.
Only exclusive for movies there is a own container for directors available in Kodi.
In most skins (also the Kodi standard skin) there is a place to show a director thumb in the views intended. But it will either display nothing or a simple fallback image.
With this addon and the addition of one single line of code in a .xml of your skin, you can make visible directors thumbnails in your skin.
Showcase on Aeon MQ7 (Kodi skin i use most)
Showcase on Estuary (Kodi standard skin)
I am a bit surprised that in all the kodi years nothing has been implemented in such a native way. I searched a lot in the forum, some members who are familiar with coding wrote down some thoughts in some threads to implement it, but never ever heard anything about it, and also never such a thing was released in that way.
However, i have to mention there is sure another way to implement director thumbs. But it needs SkinHelper and runs via webservice, which means that internet connection is always necessary and also slower.
Look here https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid...ctor+thumb and here https://github.com/kodi-community-addons...Webservice
Thanks @Angelinas who making me aware of this alternative possible integrating solution.
Pros of the SkinHelper webservice implementation:
- Just add the one line of code and it runs, nothing to care more about it
Cons of the SkinHelper webservice implementation:
- Needs SkinHelperService
- SkinHelperService runs it over webservice, web connection is needed
- Cause it runs over webservice it's slow, maybe not so terrible on list views, but on wall views it's a nogo.
- No caching or storaging local, slow
- Random selection of the thumbs you get. I don't care the resolution, but you also get all kind of aspect ratio. This is nogo because many skins have set a stretch in the views.
Pros of my Recource Addon implementation:
- Very fast cause it's running from local
- Most images in resource in same aspect ratio (2:3 aka 10:15), it's the same view result when you also use actor thumbs only from TMDB in in actor container, no ugly stretched thumbs.
Cons of my Resource Addon implemention:
- You have to install my addon
- You have to edit one skin .xml file and put (in most cases) one code line in it¹
- If you have still thumb gaps and want complete your library you have some work to download/(cut/rezise)/paste/copy it into the resource addon
- It will take a bit of storage space, but nothing in comparison how the thumbnails folder can increase
¹On post #2 there are implementation tutorials and also a ready usable paste/copy solution for the Kodi standard skin Estuary,
please also ask the skin maintainer how to find the right .xml file and .xml code section.
Also ask them politely if they could implement.
___
DOWNLOAD LINK TO THE ADDON ONLY (EMPTY, WITHOUT DIRECTOR THUMBS):
resource.images.moviedirectorthumbs.zip
File size packed and unpacked ≈0,5MB
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wqdJzow...sp=sharing
-> download and install from zip in Kodi
DOWNLOAD LINK TO THE DIRECTOR THUMBS RESOURCES COLLECTION:
directorthumb_collection.rar
Total directorthumb count ≈137.000, ≈20.000 with real thumbs and ≈117.000 with fallback thumbs
File size packed ≈2GB
File size unbacked ≈4,5GB
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sKlJQBL...sp=sharing
-> download, extract and then move all (or only needed) thumbs in the resources folder in the already installed addon.
