2014-11-06, 11:00
(2014-11-06, 05:40)Knocks Wrote: Just delete the code that pulls the thumbnails for TV episodes or substitute it with a dummy screen. The thumbnails "feature" is evil and should have never made it into XBMC in the first place. It does more harm than good (in my opinion it doesn't do any good at all).There are tons of places where thumbs are handled and who knows the sideeffects when you simply omit them. Also, you have to do special case handling and detect that the request thumb is for a TV show and not a movie poster - so a shitload of overhead involved. And who to provide a possible fallback image? Core or skins? And how to actually implement this? Which aspect ratio to use because thumbs could have different aspects? Also you can't just skip thumbnail creation and hope that there is no thumb extracted yet, because what if the setting is triggered after thumbs already got extracted?
Feel free to just delete the thumbnail code and don't have any artwork anywhere in your skins. Waiting for your PR
