2009-04-28, 06:17
hikaricore Wrote:I personally have 267 shows. :p
This is gonna take awhile.
267 shows!?!?! You're talking individual shows, not just seasons?
That's a lot
hikaricore Wrote:I personally have 267 shows. :p
This is gonna take awhile.
ethan_9219 Wrote:267 shows!?!?! You're talking individual shows, not just seasons?
That's a lot
hikaricore Wrote:I personally have 267 shows. :p
This is gonna take awhile.
parrots Wrote:As we're all just getting started with making these it might be nice to use this thread to let others known when you've added one for a show so we don't have to keep checking every show on thetvdb for updates. We're all jumping to get our libraries updated for this new view so having one thread to share updates should move things along quicker.
The idea is to upload new thumbs to thetvdb.com as fanart, at normal fanart resolution. TheTVDB is going to implement the ability to flag these "fanarts with logos" sometime so we can integrate into XBMC.
How To Use:
Grab the image you want and save it as folder.jpg in the show's folder. Then, when you go into the TV show's info in XBMC and hit "thumb" to pick the thumbnail, the image will show up as local thumb at the bottom of the list.
FernFerret's talks with thetvdb.com crew will open the way for XBMC to link in and display specific fanarts as remote thumbs, like it does banners and posters right now. It will require an update to thetvdb.com (which they're willing to do it seems), and an update to XBMC's code (which shouldn't be much), so for now the best way is to just add them as folder.jpg.
Guidelines for making thumbs:
16:9 ratio (same as normal fanart), 720p or larger. Text/logo should be easy to read when in Multiplex view (remember scales down to ~300x200ish). Good examples: 1, 2, 3. Upload to http://thetvdb.com and share!
Thumbs So Far:
(compiled from all users posting to thetvdb.com up to page 4 post 39)
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Quote:I'm kinda just waiting till I sort out exactly how we do it. It should be in place sometime within the week though.
We can always do both options as well. Have the option to do an overlay but still allow text images. Although if I do that I think we'd have to be more picky about the text images. Like only allow them if they actually are different from what the overlay would produce.
I'll most likely just add the tag for text images and call it a day for now. Sort out the overlay issue with the new site, it kinda stinks though since that means lots of work would get deleted once the overlay is in place if we do decide to go that way.
Quote:I personally think they should be completely separate from Fanart (called something like Wide Poster as they're not meant as backdrops) and even see if we can get them an extra label for XBMC to scan to the library.
This will allow people to use different views in skins without having to entirely re-do their complete posters collection each time.
Thoughts?
Hitcher Wrote:I've posted this on the TVdb forum as well -
http://forums.thetvdb.com/viewtopic.php?...4320#p4320
Hitcher Wrote:I've posted this on the TVdb forum as well -
http://forums.thetvdb.com/viewtopic.php?...4320#p4320