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I hope it makes it into Kodi 18 too.
For home movies I created my own nfo files with actors being the various family members. I then tried using actor pictures only taken from the specific family movie so that each persons [actors] face is in sync with the home movie. But Interestingly even when I use different pictures for the same actor in each folder it mostly picks up one picture and uses it all the time.... so putting all the actors in one folder is probably not going to hurt anyone and in fact it probably will make it easier for those trying to organize their home movies.
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the_bo
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I hope this wouldn't be difficult to implement. Be great if someone could look into it for v18 if possible.
Having multiple gigabytes of actors images with many duplicates. Be nice to free up some space.
Thanks
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Currently the actor db cannot have duplicates for an actor name. This is quite restrictive. I have a system which is dependent on the IMDB id of an actor as opposed to the name. This is needs changes to all scrapers which add to the actors,directors or writers tables, now requiring a unique (IMDB) id for the individual but allowing duplicate names. I have rewritten the IMDB and TVDB scrapers to take this into account and removed the unique index on name in the actors table of the db and added an IMDB id column which is set as unique. I have merged the actors and thumbs db for multiple profiles to prevent duplication. Unfortunately to implement this means a number of changes to the Kodi application and movie and tv scrapers all at the same time. This may have implications for a number of addons etc which I do not use and maybe different languages.
This approach is dependent on a unique actor/writer/director id.
I have been using this for 4 years for both movie and tv modified scrapers and a modified kodi/xbmc.
I am happy to share the code, approach etc if people are interested
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Wondering if a "pullrequest" would make sense. (without knewing if the Teammember will like it)
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Currently actor images are scraped automatically when I use Kodi. When I go into the Info page under cast, a single actor image for each cast member appears. Selecting one of those actor image opens a bios page. From there I can select 'Artwork' and more images about that actor appear. I'd like to add my own custom images somehow so they appear also. Is this possible? Really appreciate any tips if it is.
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ivan
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Tnx for quick reply....So, the only thing that remains is to hope something similar will be implemented in future Kodi releases.