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Image 1, above, lookin' totally normal to everyone?
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No the first pic definitely looks wrong, like it's resizing fanart to poster ratio.
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Sometimes I'll refresh and let Kodi do a scrape (with default scrapers) if I want more artwork etc, but other than that it's info populated via Tiny Media Manager, which works great in every other environment.
Everything looks fantastic on my Android TV (Nvidia Shield), Intel NUC (LibreELEC, Windows 10 Pro), and Mac Mini (macOS) installations.
The main ones I use are the Shield and LibreELEC, but I was wanting to play with the iOS version. Really, that's the only flaw I've found - but it's unfortunately quite literally front and center.
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Yes I use TMM as well. I must admit that after the update to v17, a few of my movies suffered that as well. Same with the Box Sets view.
It was a simple fix though. Just highlight the movie, call up the movie information page, select Choose Art. I found that the ones I had problems with had the "Thumbnail" as an entry. Just change the "Thumbnail" art from the Fanart to the Poster.
If you check your other movies that are not affected, you will find there is no Thumbnail entry, for some reason.
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You're right - two different images; I just looked more closely: Again keeping in mind these are tMM standard files (as far as size and naming that would be important): In Screenshot 1 above it's squishing thumb.jpg (1000x562 or 1.78:1 A/R) into a poster. In Screenshot 2 it's using the standard poster.jpg (500x750 or 1[width]:1.5[height] A/R) correctly.
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I have never really seen the point of TMM and similar programs. I name my files, Kodi scrapes metadata and art work. Maybe if I was more anal particular about my artwork I'd try something like TMM. However most of mine looks pretty good IMHO.
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Yep that's it.
I don't know why it happened, and why some movies have that thumbnail entry and others don't, especially when it is all the standard artwork. Just one of those glitches I suppose.
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I never looked into it too deeply when it happened to me. This was a few months ago when v17 was released and you are the first post I have seen that has also had this issue.
I wonder why the Thumbnail is needed. Maybe you could test on a couple of movies- Delete the thumbnail picture file from the directory and refresh that individual movie. See if it fixes it and nothing else is affected.
If it does, you could then search "thumbnail.jpg" in your file browser and just delete them all. Then refresh the library. Better than manually changing 234 items.
I understand the use of Thumbnails for TV Show episodes, but not sure why they are needed for movies.