[nickv2002]

I updated to Kodi 19.1.0 recently (I'm using the OSMC build, but the official Estuary Skin) and found that my Thumbnails and Posters for local .nfo files seem to be swapped. It's easy to illustrate using a screenshot: 

Here's the contents of the associated nfo file, note that a thumb is specified:

xml:
<musicvideo>

  <title>The Space Border That Could Seal Us on Earth</title>

  <showtitle>Johnny Harris</showtitle>

  <plot>Thanks to Policygenius for sponsoring this video! 

Johnny Harris is a filmmaker and journalist. He currently is based in Washington, DC, reporting on interesting trends and stories domestically and around the globe.</plot>

  <runtime>17</runtime>

  <thumb>https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NY8Rv6PaXVI/maxresdefault.jpg</thumb>

  <videourl>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY8Rv6PaXVI</videourl>

  <aired>2021-07-23</aired>

</musicvideo>

For those wondering what the big deal is here, the problem is that now that all my thumbnails are considered posters, the view and navigation images used by most views in Estuary are all messed up with auto-generated frame images instead of nice descriptive thumbnails. Since this seems like a regression/bug in v19.1.0, how can I help get it fixed going forward?

[DaveBlake]

Move to where those with an interest in Music Videos are more likely to see this

[jjd-uk]

I don't see the problem, for video a thumbnail is a generated image from the video and poster is commonly downloaded artwork image type.

Check this new setting in v19 and toggle it.



[edit] Although as you set it as a thumb in the nfo that should be respected, maybe some fallout from https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/17127

[rmrector]

Add an "aspect" attribute to the thumb tags to explicitly set the art type for the image, <thumb aspect="thumb">...</thumb>. Looks like music videos ended up with an unexpected default value somewhere with changes focused on TV shows and movies.

[nickv2002]

I don't see the problem, for video a thumbnail is a generated image from the video and poster is commonly downloaded artwork image type.

Check this new setting in v19 and toggle it.



[edit] Although as you set it as a thumb in the nfo that should be respected, maybe some fallout from https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/17127

That "Show posters instead of thumbs for musicvideos" setting was almost right but it make the UI display my widescreen thumbs in a tall poster aspect ratio.

Add an "aspect" attribute to the thumb tags to explicitly set the art type for the image, <thumb aspect="thumb">...</thumb>. Looks like music videos ended up with an unexpected default value somewhere with changes focused on TV shows and movies.

Thanks, this did the aspect attribute made the pre-generated thumbs show up as I expected in the UI (in the proper wide aspect ratio they were generated in). 👍