2009-03-17, 20:45
New Version 2.209
Just a couple of things
Additional functions
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Just a couple of things
Additional functions
- Support for movie.nfo, movie.tbn, & fanart.jpg has finally been added. (note; at the moment playback and mediainfo are disabled when browsing nfo's in this format)
- You can now set the size of rar files ignored by MC during scraping (default is 8MB)
- I've finally implemented the download of actor thumbs to a local path (For Movies only at the moment, support for TVDB will be coming soon), this allows several things, at the moment the benefits are much quicked speed when browsing movies and actors, XBMC will no longer need to dl these thumbs when importing the nfo file. In the future it will also allow the actor thumbnails to be changed from the low quality imdb thumbs, missing thumbs could be added from other sources.
How does it work?
This requires a bit of work from the user to set it up
Step 1, Enable the "Save Actor Thumb" checkbox in the preferences/scraper tag
Step 2, For the "Local Path" enter the path to the folder you wish to use to download the thumbnails to, or use the browse button. This can also be a network path.
Step 3, Some people will find this to be the tricky part. Enter in the "XBMC path" textbox the exact path to the folder you used in step 2, this must be the XBMC path, eg:-
local path:- "Z:\Actors"
XBMC path :- "smb://GIGANAS/public/Actors/"
Once you have done the above then save and exit, from this point any movie scraped or re-scraped download actor thumbnails to "Z:\Actors
The thumbnails are named as the IMDB actor ID, eg Liam Neeson would be saved as "nm0000553.jpg"
Your movie.nfo files will look a bit different,
instead of;
<actor>
<name>Christian Bale</name>
<role>Bruce Wayne</role>
<thumb>http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTM3OTE2ODc3NF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMDQ5NTYyMQ@@._V._V1._SY400_SX300_.jpg</thumb>
</actor>
you will get
<actor>
<name>Christian Bale</name>
<role>Bruce Wayne</role>
<thumb>smb://GIGANAS/public/Actors/nm0000288.jpg</thumb>
</actor>
The idea is that XBMC will get the thumb from your selected location.
Media Companion also uses the same thumb by substituting the XBMC path with the Local Path stored in step 1 above.
It's fairly simple, just make sure that XBMC can has permission to access the folder your saving the thumbs to
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