2008-08-19, 14:37
First, BllyAD2000, thank you very much, I find both your programs very useful, specially xbmc-db.
I know you consider xbmc-db a finished project, but maybe you can consider a small improvement. You give the option to generate thumbnails from the first <thumb> entry of the nfo, but that has several disadvantages:
- some links no longer work (many of my movies where scraped from culturalia.net, and that host no longer offers the service that made the scraper possible)
- sometimes another image instead of the first one is preferred and already have been chosen
- xbmc-db is re-downloading many images that maybe you already have
To cope with those 3 problems, I think this workaround should do: the user must first download from the xbox the video thumbnail directory to the local PC and give the path to it to xbmc-db. Then, for each entry in videodb.xml, xbmc-db calculates the CRC32 of the path+filename and looks for the correspondent tbn file in thumbnail directory; if it exist, simply copy it to the media directory & filename, if not, it should download the first <thumb> entry like it does now.
Thanks again for your work and patience!
I know you consider xbmc-db a finished project, but maybe you can consider a small improvement. You give the option to generate thumbnails from the first <thumb> entry of the nfo, but that has several disadvantages:
- some links no longer work (many of my movies where scraped from culturalia.net, and that host no longer offers the service that made the scraper possible)
- sometimes another image instead of the first one is preferred and already have been chosen
- xbmc-db is re-downloading many images that maybe you already have
To cope with those 3 problems, I think this workaround should do: the user must first download from the xbox the video thumbnail directory to the local PC and give the path to it to xbmc-db. Then, for each entry in videodb.xml, xbmc-db calculates the CRC32 of the path+filename and looks for the correspondent tbn file in thumbnail directory; if it exist, simply copy it to the media directory & filename, if not, it should download the first <thumb> entry like it does now.
Thanks again for your work and patience!