2017-06-17, 14:32
I've got video files with embedded thumbnails, but the thumbnails aren't showing up.
Any ideas how I can get this to work?
Any ideas how I can get this to work?
(2017-06-19, 05:54)smasha Wrote: Is there a reason why Kodi wouldn't use embedded artwork (and other embedded data)?
Seems like this should be the default, rather than relying on a working internet connection (which may not be available), consuming bandwidth (which can be expensive in some places) and creating log files (on remote servers) that can be used to see what movies someone has, and when they're watching them, among other security and efficiency issues that this default behaviour opens.
Here's screen-shot of nautilus (file-browser on Ubuntu) showing embedded covers -
I would've thought Kodi would default to similar behaviour.
(2017-06-19, 06:15)Gracus Wrote: About bandwith: once the first scraping of a movie has been made, you can export those info/artworks to local files and use them if you need one day to rebuild your kodi library
(2017-06-19, 11:47)mchp92 Wrote:(2017-06-19, 06:15)Gracus Wrote: About bandwith: once the first scraping of a movie has been made, you can export those info/artworks to local files and use them if you need one day to rebuild your kodi library
We have just established in another thread, that kodi does not automatically import / scrape (all) files it created on en earlier export....
(2017-06-19, 06:34)nickr Wrote: Most video formats do not have this info, nor is it often very good quality as it's designed for icons not full screen viewing. You could of course write a scraper that extracts such thumbnail.MP4, MOV, M2TS, and MKV/WEBM are among the common containers that do support this. Anecdotally, MKV and MP4 seem to be the most common formats.
(2017-06-20, 05:42)smasha Wrote:(2017-06-19, 06:34)nickr Wrote: Most video formats do not have this info, nor is it often very good quality as it's designed for icons not full screen viewing. You could of course write a scraper that extracts such thumbnail.MP4, MOV, M2TS, and MKV/WEBM are among the common containers that do support this. Anecdotally, MKV and MP4 seem to be the most common formats.
Not sure where I'd get started writing a scraper for this, but for someone who's more familiar with Kodi it shouldn't take too long to sort out. I mean, if I had to do this on a command line with ffmpeg or similar, it would take a few minutes.