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Another question about actors

I have downloaded actors to a centralized folder: movies from TMDb and shows from TVDb

An actor in Rome is saved as: Ciarán_Hinds_25663, same actor in Game of Thrones: Ciarán_Hinds_346231 and this is how it is shown on each individual NFO and displayed in MC main browser.

My expectation was that Kodi would display the photo using the path on the NFO file, Rome displaying 25663 and GoT displaying 346231.... not the case.

Is there anything I can do to have Kodi display the actor based on NFO?

thanks

Had to have a play with this before answering.
For TVDb actors, we include the actor's TVDb Id. This is the number at the end of the actor name.
In the tvshow.nfo, the path to the centralized actors should be as follows. Note, path is what I am currently using, this is just an example.

Code:

<episodeguide>
        <url cache="281534.xml">http://www.thetvdb.com/api/6E82FED600783400/series/281534/all/en.zip</url>
    </episodeguide>
    <language>en</language>
    <actor>
        <actorid>347723</actorid>
        <name>Hannah John-Kamen</name>
        <role>Dutch</role>
        <thumb>U:\zMedia\Actors\H\Hannah_John-Kamen_347723.jpg</thumb>
        <order>0</order>
    </actor>
    <actor>
        <actorid>347721</actorid>
        <name>Aaron Ashmore</name>
        <role>John Jaqobis</role>
        <thumb>U:\zMedia\Actors\A\Aaron_Ashmore_347721.jpg</thumb>
        <order>1</order>
    </actor>
    <actor>
        <actorid>349135</actorid>
        <name>Luke Macfarlane</name>
        <role>D'Avin Jaqobis</role>
        <thumb>U:\zMedia\Actors\L\Luke_Macfarlane_349135.jpg</thumb>
        <order>2</order>
    </actor>

This is for the show Killjoys. I set up a central folder for actors

Code:

U:\zMedia\Actors

and scraped this show.

The tricky part is setting up Kodi.
If using smb paths in Kodi, you need to add a network path so that Kodi can see the Central actor folder. This path needs to be entered into Media Companion Settings, so it can be saved to the nfo.
If using Local path, then add this as a folder, but set to exclude from scanning.

I checked the above using SQL browser and the Kodi MyVideoxx.db, and indeed, Kodi retrieves the actors images from the central location.
Play, try, PM me if you have specific questions.