2015-04-13, 22:33
Hi guys and gals,
First my apologizes if these questions have been already rised, my 8 monthes BB right in my left arm is actually preventing me for doing a proper search on the thread
(and yes i'am typing with my right one 
)
I can't be enough thankfull for this addon as i really don't know how we could handle extra artworks to be properly grabbed by Kodi which still lack the native hability to catch them all.
Well, that being said, i just want to briefly expose my use of the addon.
I am the kind who use an external program to scrape all the stuffs and oiganize them along with a proper nfo (I use Mediaelch which do this fine and can also do extra fanarts but in a half automatic way which is not convenient IMHO).
My question is just about extra fanarts and extra thumbs.
I don't understand how it works internally, and mostly for extra thumbs which are used by most of the skins to display pictures on certain view (generally 4).
So i tried to do it cleanly to undertand how AD do its magic.
I tried on the movie 300 with english as the language in the AD setting and I disabled all limits for artworks for it to grab all the pictures.
But first i had a look at TMDB to see the artworks they provide. For this particular movie they have 2 english "backdrops" (in 1280x720) and 20 "no language" "backdrops" (2 in 1280x720 the rest in 1920x1080).
I also went to FanartTV : they have 9 "backgrounds" (all in 1920x1080) and 3 "movie thumbs" (all in 1000x562).
And i launched it.
It created the two expected directories in my 300 movie folder : extrafanart and extrathumbs and downloaded the stuff.
1. I noticed that AD doesn't use FanartTV for extrafanarts and extrathumbs oO why ?
2. In my extrfanarts I have all the "backdrops" from TMDB but from the "no language" list only... why not the english one as i specified english in the setting ?
3. Where are grabed the extrathumbs. They are always 4 of them and they always are resized pictures from the extrafanart folder.
Why these pictures are resized (780x389) as kodi will resized them anyway when caching them first and the skin will mostly resizing them a second time when populating the views ? And if they are resized why not follow the size of FanarTV which is 1000x562 ?
But mostly how AD choose from the "backdrops" images grabed from TMDV which ones are going to be used as thumbs ? I tried to see if there is a metadata in the jpg : no ; i also tried to decipher the source HTML page, but of course they are populated via javascript as far as i can understand. Is there a tag which point to specific images from the backdrops list and pint point them as being thumbs from the movie ? , or do AD choose them at random, which i doubt as i tried multiple times to grab them with a clean library and AD always catch the same thumbs ? Is it by the rating : for sure not as they are not the most rated in that particular example.
Can someone with a greater knowledge illuminate me and the others on that matter ?
Thanks
First my apologizes if these questions have been already rised, my 8 monthes BB right in my left arm is actually preventing me for doing a proper search on the thread
(and yes i'am typing with my right one )I can't be enough thankfull for this addon as i really don't know how we could handle extra artworks to be properly grabbed by Kodi which still lack the native hability to catch them all.
Well, that being said, i just want to briefly expose my use of the addon.
I am the kind who use an external program to scrape all the stuffs and oiganize them along with a proper nfo (I use Mediaelch which do this fine and can also do extra fanarts but in a half automatic way which is not convenient IMHO).
My question is just about extra fanarts and extra thumbs.
I don't understand how it works internally, and mostly for extra thumbs which are used by most of the skins to display pictures on certain view (generally 4).
So i tried to do it cleanly to undertand how AD do its magic.
I tried on the movie 300 with english as the language in the AD setting and I disabled all limits for artworks for it to grab all the pictures.
But first i had a look at TMDB to see the artworks they provide. For this particular movie they have 2 english "backdrops" (in 1280x720) and 20 "no language" "backdrops" (2 in 1280x720 the rest in 1920x1080).
I also went to FanartTV : they have 9 "backgrounds" (all in 1920x1080) and 3 "movie thumbs" (all in 1000x562).
And i launched it.
It created the two expected directories in my 300 movie folder : extrafanart and extrathumbs and downloaded the stuff.
1. I noticed that AD doesn't use FanartTV for extrafanarts and extrathumbs oO why ?
2. In my extrfanarts I have all the "backdrops" from TMDB but from the "no language" list only... why not the english one as i specified english in the setting ?
3. Where are grabed the extrathumbs. They are always 4 of them and they always are resized pictures from the extrafanart folder.
Why these pictures are resized (780x389) as kodi will resized them anyway when caching them first and the skin will mostly resizing them a second time when populating the views ? And if they are resized why not follow the size of FanarTV which is 1000x562 ?
But mostly how AD choose from the "backdrops" images grabed from TMDV which ones are going to be used as thumbs ? I tried to see if there is a metadata in the jpg : no ; i also tried to decipher the source HTML page, but of course they are populated via javascript as far as i can understand. Is there a tag which point to specific images from the backdrops list and pint point them as being thumbs from the movie ? , or do AD choose them at random, which i doubt as i tried multiple times to grab them with a clean library and AD always catch the same thumbs ? Is it by the rating : for sure not as they are not the most rated in that particular example.
Can someone with a greater knowledge illuminate me and the others on that matter ?
Thanks
