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Dr. Bogenbroom · 2015-07-09, 14:09

Ok, time for some screenshots:

TV-Show Information, everything fine

Tripanel Level 1, with season-poster

Tripanel Level 2, without season-poster

I really don't understand what's going on here.

shaktoo · 2015-07-09, 14:13

(2015-07-09, 13:59)schimi2k Wrote: It seems my 101 is either too complicated, or nobody is reading it

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here lemme Give PPL a shouting to :
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shaktoo · 2015-07-09, 14:15

(2015-07-09, 14:09)Dr. Bogenbroom Wrote: Ok, time for some screenshots:

TV-Show Information, everything fine

Tripanel Level 1, with season-poster

Tripanel Level 2, without season-poster

I really don't understand what's going on here.

thats not the season level rather @ episode level . I have never tried the tri panel view so Cannot say but at the episode level i dont think its the season poster rather the show poster that gets displayed. i might be wrong. but your season poster is showing correctly in the middle season level .

Mike_Doc · 2015-07-09, 14:28

This is what I have for Tri-panel Homeland Series 3 with the relevant artwork downloaded and assigned via Artwork downloader.

Level 1 - Tvshows
Level 2 - Seasons
Level 3 - Episodes

watch gallery

If you go to AD: choose art, do you have season posters assigned and do you have one for season 04?

Dr. Bogenbroom · 2015-07-09, 15:10

Ok, it's episode-level, my mistake. I have all the artwork, i can use AD to assign different ones, all working well. But it's just not showing up at episode-level. And it's not just tripanel, i thinkt other views like "Right" and "Infowall" should have a poster too right?

Mike_Doc · 2015-07-09, 15:13

can you do a refresh of homeland please, and when it says Local info found, ignore and refresh just say no and see what happens.

Dr. Bogenbroom · 2015-07-09, 15:23

I did that, no change. And i don't have local info, at least not for Homeland, as AD stores everything in the thumbnails-dir (except extrafanart).

But you said something that the bug was already fixed, I'll just wait for the next release i think and see if that did it.

Mike_Doc · 2015-07-09, 15:31

I haven't fixed anything in tri-panel as I can't replicate anything

thumbnails dir? please see schimi's 101. You should have folders like

/Homeland
/Homeland/Season 01
/Homeland/Season 02
/Homeland/Season 03
/Homeland/Season 04

All your artwork should be in /Homeland

The only images I think that should be in /Homeland/Seaon 04 would be the thumbs for the episodes.

Dr. Bogenbroom · (This post was last modified: 2015-07-09, 16:12 by Dr. Bogenbroom.)

From Artwork/Cache (wiki)

"All textures that Kodi loads, with the exception of textures that are provided directly by the skin, are cached to the userdata/Thumbnails folder."

Only when you use external scrapers (like Ember) you have your artwork alongside your media. The Database only contains URLs to the pictures, which get loaded if needed and then cached to the Thumbnails-folder. That's how it worked since Gotham i think. Storing your artwork locally is only a fallback.

Edit: To clarify a bit more, the database (textures13.db) contains all URLs to the artwork. These can point to the Internet (thetvdb) or local files, like /Homeland/poster.jpg. Now you select which artwork you like, Kodi loads the image and stores it into userdata/Thumbnails. Job done.

barenaked · 2015-07-09, 16:00

(2015-07-08, 21:38)Mike_Doc Wrote: Hi barenaked,

1) go into settings, but level 2 (seasons) and look for 'Thumbnail Info' and activate.

2) Erm, haven't done anything to this AFAIK, can you check BD/DVD cases and confirm 'Open set as boxcase' is active?

3) Yup, on the list will plan to fix it for next update.

Mike.

Hey Mike,

1) I cant find that setting. What Im missing is seeing the episode number in level 3. The episode view is fine but kodiflix is not showing the episode number anymore. The logo is fine but before there was a number below every episode (like 3x01).

2) thanks, got it

3) looking forward to that

Cheers

Mike_Doc · 2015-07-09, 16:05

Yes, that's correct but the skin is looking directly in the folder for the .jpg! for it to use whatever is in the db you need to have assigned something to $INFO[ListItem.Art(season.poster)], this is done in choose art >> season posters.

And storing your art locally isn't just fallback for some skins today, they reference directly for .jpgs in the relevant folder and this has been in some skins for a long time! You need to have the locally to begin with to be able to load into the db via either AD or manual work!

If this doesn't work then it seems to be a config issue on you side. Sorry.

This is the code use for populating the VAR used for the poster in Tr-panel and several other views. They all use the same VAR:

Code:
<variable name="ListPosterVar">

        <value condition="Stringcompare(ListItem.label,..)">DefaultFolderBack.png</value>

        <value condition="Container.Content(genres)">$INFO[ListItem.Label,special://skin/extras/genre/video/icons/,.jpg]</value>

        <value condition="!IsEmpty(ListItem.Art(poster))">$INFO[ListItem.Art(poster)]</value>

        <value condition="Container.Content(episodes) + !IsEmpty(ListItem.Art(season.poster))">$INFO[ListItem.Art(season.poster)]</value>

        <value condition="!IntegerGreaterThan(ListItem.Season,9) + [Container.Content(tvshows) | Container.Content(seasons) | Container.Content(episodes)]">$INFO[ListItem.Path]$INFO[ListItem.Season,../season0,-poster.jpg]</value>

        <value condition="Container.Content(episodes)">$INFO[ListItem.Path]$INFO[ListItem.Season,../season,-poster.jpg]</value>

        <value condition="Container.Content(episodes)">$INFO[ListItem.Art(tvshow.poster)]</value>

        <value>$INFO[ListItem.Icon]</value>

    </variable>

4-7 are all connected to episodes.

Mike_Doc · 2015-07-09, 16:09

Hi barenaked,

go into tvshows and view kodiflix, at either tvshows or seasons in viewtype settings you should see 'Thumbnail Info' activate that. The next update will allow acces to it @ episodes level, missed it first time round.

Dr. Bogenbroom · 2015-07-09, 16:23

Yes Mike, that's my whole point. You can't rely on the image existing in the shows folder, because where would it come from?

Kodi doesn't provide it, it uses the thumbnails-folder, Artwork Downloader does the same. Please see also the edit in my above post.

Mike_Doc · 2015-07-09, 16:50

I'm sorry but AD does not do the same, yes it may update kodi which inturn will grab the image and cache it into thumbnails, which is all that is a cache! You need to have something real to begin with and that would be a season04-poster in your /Homeland folder, which you would use AD to download or manually tell Kodi you have that poster for it to be entered into the DB and then cached into thumbnails.

Kodi just does't get the images from the scrapers, infact it only gets poster and fanart, everything else you have to assign either via AD, as long as you have configured it in the settings for tv shows to download season posters or whatever you want to download, or manually through choose art and selecting whatever image you want to use.

It seems I can't help you any further, this is a config or setup issue on your side and not the skin.

Dr. Bogenbroom · 2015-07-09, 17:07

Ok, that "something real to begin with" does not have to be a real file on your harddrive, it is just an URL to a file.

Here's a little snippet of textures13.db:

http://www.thetvdb.com/banners/seasons/247897-3-6.jpgD9whttp://www.thetvdb.com/banners/seasons/247897-2-4.jpgC9whttp://www.thetvdb.com/banners/seasons/247897-1-8.jpgB9whttp://www.thetvdb.com/banners/seasons/247897-1-6.jpgA9whttp://www.thetvdb.com/banners/seasons/247897-2-7.jpg@U-http://assets.fanart.tv/fanart/tv/247897/characterart/homeland-51aa5175300b9.png?qeC:\Users\dirk\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\userdata\addon_data\script.toolbox\a7220c3c8eb10a9ba15aee3dc415a48f20.png>0ehttp://thetvdb.com/banners/actors/339722.jpg=0ehttp://thetvdb.com/banners/actors/339723.jpg<0ehttp://thetvdb.com/banners/actors/341359.jpg;0ehttp://thetvdb.com/banners/actors/319703.jpg:0ehttp://thetvdb.com/banners/actors/319706.jpg90ehttp://thetvdb.com/banners/a

As you can see, there are also links to season-posters and actor-thumbs

I also have some shows with local art, like that:

smb://ROADRUNNER/Media/TV-Shows/Lost/fanart.jpg!Jsmb://DS2/Media/TV-Shows/Inventions that changed the world/poster.jpg Asmb://DS2/Media/TV-Shows/James May's 20th Century/poster.jpg;{smb://DS2/Media/TV-Shows/James May's Man Lab/poster.jpg<}http://thetvdb.com/banners/fanart/original/258744-13.jpgE
smb://DS2/Media/TV-Shows/Jeremy Clarkson's Motorworld/poster.jpgM

You notice, these are also URLs, but this time pointing to local files. These two can be mixed, it doesn't matter to Kodi. I don't know how i could explain that more clearly.