2019-11-03, 03:01
(2019-11-02, 21:14)mikeSiLVO Wrote:(2019-10-29, 19:01)monisriz Wrote: Another suggestion/nit-pick..
For the episode thumbs in various views (e.g. Lowlist), currently if there's no image available then the default icon is shown. Would it be possible in case of a missing episode-thumb, first check if some sort of 16:9 artwork relevant to the given parent tv show is available (e.g. landscape, fanart, etc.) and display that instead? If nothing else is found then just not display anything at all.
This is particularly relevant for newer episodes as the episode thumbs sometimes take a few days to show up on the TVDB or TMDB.
Doesn't Kodi pull the thumb image from the file when there isn't one provided?
Kodi extracts the thumbnail from the video if the option is checked in the settings. However, I prefer better thumbnails provided by TVDB than the random kodi generated thumb so I have that option turned off. Maybe other users have it turned off too - I am not sure of the stats though. So in this use-case if a thumbnail isn’t available at the time of scraping, the default icon is being displayed. It’s more noticeable these days as at the moment, for me at least, Artwork Beef isn’t updating the episode/season level artwork automatically (when this artwork becomes available) if the artwork isn’t there at the time of initial scrape (usually for some of the new aired episodes/seasons). I have raised this issue in artwork beef thread as well.
As I said it’s a minor thing and not a big deal at all