2013-04-13, 00:41
I know artwork problems with people who have upgraded from Eden 11.0 to Frodo 12.0/12.1 have been discussed several times, and I have read many of the threads, however I have not seen clear resolution and have run into this problem myself. What I have surmised through the reading and my own experience is that there is possibly either a program bug or a skinning bug that cause this problem. Here's what I know:
The Problem:
1) When watching a movie and bringing up the UI, any of my "old" movies (ie, that were part of the library before the upgrade) will display a video snapshot in the cover area of the skin; new movies scanned after the upgrade will display the cover properly. This happens in both the included Confluence Skin and Aeon Nox that is downloaded from the Addins menu. It does NOT happen with Transparency!, but that's because Roni fixed it in the skin (read more on this part later). These skins are all the latest versions either included with the install (Confluence) downloaded from the Addins menu, so I assume they are the proper official releases for Frodo 12.1.
What I've Surmised;
When I look at the artwork for some of the movies in the skin, the old movies all show that they have: Cover, Fanart, Snapshot (or whatever it's called, I don't have it running infront of me right now). The newly scanned movies all have ONLY Cover and Fanart. So somehow the Confluence and Aeon Nox skins are picking up the snapshot and using that instead of the cover for these. It appears that if the snapshot doesn't exist, then the skin has no problem displaying the correct artwork.
When I first ran into this problem with another upgrade to 12.0 in January 2013, I posted the problem to the T! thread and Roni replied "these issues have been reported a few times before. i'm unsure why this is happening for some of you, maybe our upgrade shizzle from eden to frodo is not 100% waterproof. since it is possible to fix this skin side, i'll push an update shortly that should address these issues." http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1309360
He did so, and therefore the issue doesn't occur in T!, but since he did this skin-side, I believe the underlying problem still exists in Frodo.
This past weekend I upgraded another install from 11.0 to 12.1 anticipating the problem would have been fixed from 12.0 to 12.1, but still ran into it.
When I upgraded, I did the following:
1) set skin to Confluence before the upgrade to be sure the first launch would use the default skin
2) rename c:\program files\xbmc to c:\program files\xbmc.bak
3) installed 12.1 to c:\program files\xbmc
4) launched the new version
5) was prompted that artwork needed to be upgraded, let it do that overnight (took several hours)
My System is WinXP SP3 32bit (if it makes any difference).
Questions:
-Is there any utility or other way to have XBMC go through the library and delete all of the Snapshots so this problem goes away.
-OR, do all the skins need to be updated with whatever Roni did to T!?
-OR is there a bug in the program that didn't get removed where it is still looking at the snapshots which I assume have been depreciated and are no longer used.
Many thanks for any help
The REAL Joe
The Problem:
1) When watching a movie and bringing up the UI, any of my "old" movies (ie, that were part of the library before the upgrade) will display a video snapshot in the cover area of the skin; new movies scanned after the upgrade will display the cover properly. This happens in both the included Confluence Skin and Aeon Nox that is downloaded from the Addins menu. It does NOT happen with Transparency!, but that's because Roni fixed it in the skin (read more on this part later). These skins are all the latest versions either included with the install (Confluence) downloaded from the Addins menu, so I assume they are the proper official releases for Frodo 12.1.
What I've Surmised;
When I look at the artwork for some of the movies in the skin, the old movies all show that they have: Cover, Fanart, Snapshot (or whatever it's called, I don't have it running infront of me right now). The newly scanned movies all have ONLY Cover and Fanart. So somehow the Confluence and Aeon Nox skins are picking up the snapshot and using that instead of the cover for these. It appears that if the snapshot doesn't exist, then the skin has no problem displaying the correct artwork.
When I first ran into this problem with another upgrade to 12.0 in January 2013, I posted the problem to the T! thread and Roni replied "these issues have been reported a few times before. i'm unsure why this is happening for some of you, maybe our upgrade shizzle from eden to frodo is not 100% waterproof. since it is possible to fix this skin side, i'll push an update shortly that should address these issues." http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1309360
He did so, and therefore the issue doesn't occur in T!, but since he did this skin-side, I believe the underlying problem still exists in Frodo.
This past weekend I upgraded another install from 11.0 to 12.1 anticipating the problem would have been fixed from 12.0 to 12.1, but still ran into it.
When I upgraded, I did the following:
1) set skin to Confluence before the upgrade to be sure the first launch would use the default skin
2) rename c:\program files\xbmc to c:\program files\xbmc.bak
3) installed 12.1 to c:\program files\xbmc
4) launched the new version
5) was prompted that artwork needed to be upgraded, let it do that overnight (took several hours)
My System is WinXP SP3 32bit (if it makes any difference).
Questions:
-Is there any utility or other way to have XBMC go through the library and delete all of the Snapshots so this problem goes away.
-OR, do all the skins need to be updated with whatever Roni did to T!?
-OR is there a bug in the program that didn't get removed where it is still looking at the snapshots which I assume have been depreciated and are no longer used.
Many thanks for any help
The REAL Joe
