2012-05-01, 10:38
I've spent the last few days experimenting with Eden and importing various sample sets from my library to learn how XBMC works.
I've got almost everything under control now, scraping and importing exactly as required.
I've also introduced an AdvancedSettings.xml file and used <thumbsize> to increase the max size of cover art and improve the display quality.
The ONLY thing I can't figure out is how to force XBMC to recognise local "cover.jpg" files instead of "folder.jpg" files as cover images (thumbnails?).
Is this even possible?
This is offered in advancedsettings.xml:
<dvdthumbs>
<remove>folder.jpg</remove>
<add>cover.jpg</add>
</dvdthumbs>
But that doesn't seem to be working for general video files, so I'm guessing that, as the name of the XML element implies, it's specific to DVD .iso files ?
I can work around the "folder.jpg" requirement if I absolutely have to but:
a. I have other media players besides XBMC accessing this collection that also rely on "folder.jpg" and need the image to be at a far smaller resolution than what I want to use with XBMC,
so I would prefer use a different filename altogether for XBMC and leave the existing folder.jpg images as they are.
b. I just can't believe that a system as powerful as XBMC does NOT offer a way to override the default file names. There MUST be a way to do that, surely?
I have a very big collection of movies with cover art, fan art and metadata all carefully hand picked and set exactly how I like it in the folders. So I WANT XBMC to use my local stuff before it even thinks about going to the internet for anything.
Yes, I'm a control freak I like my stuff the way I like it.
Can anybody offer advice on this? I've done a lot of searching and digging around but I can't seem to solve this.
I've got almost everything under control now, scraping and importing exactly as required.
I've also introduced an AdvancedSettings.xml file and used <thumbsize> to increase the max size of cover art and improve the display quality.
The ONLY thing I can't figure out is how to force XBMC to recognise local "cover.jpg" files instead of "folder.jpg" files as cover images (thumbnails?).
Is this even possible?
This is offered in advancedsettings.xml:
<dvdthumbs>
<remove>folder.jpg</remove>
<add>cover.jpg</add>
</dvdthumbs>
But that doesn't seem to be working for general video files, so I'm guessing that, as the name of the XML element implies, it's specific to DVD .iso files ?
I can work around the "folder.jpg" requirement if I absolutely have to but:
a. I have other media players besides XBMC accessing this collection that also rely on "folder.jpg" and need the image to be at a far smaller resolution than what I want to use with XBMC,
so I would prefer use a different filename altogether for XBMC and leave the existing folder.jpg images as they are.
b. I just can't believe that a system as powerful as XBMC does NOT offer a way to override the default file names. There MUST be a way to do that, surely?
I have a very big collection of movies with cover art, fan art and metadata all carefully hand picked and set exactly how I like it in the folders. So I WANT XBMC to use my local stuff before it even thinks about going to the internet for anything.
Yes, I'm a control freak I like my stuff the way I like it.
Can anybody offer advice on this? I've done a lot of searching and digging around but I can't seem to solve this.