2015-08-17, 20:58
(2015-08-17, 19:59)Milhouse Wrote: 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.
Wow, that's good info to know. So I guess there are three categories of artwork. Assuming you have all the local artwork in the movie folder:
1. poster and fanart, which are cached in the Kodi database, but which Kodi (or the skin) can cache without help from AD
2. extrafanart and extrathumbs, which are not cached, but which the skin uses without help from AD
3. clearart, clearlogo, banner, etc., which are cached in the Kodi database, but AD is required to present the URL to Kodi for caching
Complicated stuff. Wouldn't it be easier if it were all handled the same way?