2015-08-17, 19:59
(2015-08-17, 12:47)Namoi Wrote: It also grabs the extrafanarts AFAIK if located in an extrafanart folder as is seems.
I indeed disabled the "download" option for extrafanarts within AD as i use fanart1, 2, 3.... .jpg and AD uses the provider id for naming them, and it still works : ie the skins are able to find them so my guess is it works without AD.
Correct, Extrafanarts don't need AD in order to work as the Extrafanart is not associated with movies in the library (ie. the urls of the Exrtafanart artwork are not added to the media library).
Extrafanart works by having the skin look for the Extrafanart directory and, if it exists, using whatever artwork it finds within. Extrafanart is entirely a skin hack, and the artwork exists completely outside of the media library, unlike artwork such as poster, fanart, discart, logo etc.
All AD needs to do for Extrafanart is create the Extrafanart directory and populate it with suitable artwork, there are no database updates required.
Same applies to Extrathumbs.