2009-06-09, 02:49
mark007 Wrote:I have only tried a few movies but so far V For Vendetta is the only one that creates these empty jpg files. Downloading all fan art for use in extrathumbs, and selecting number 4 as the main fanart image, this time created thumb4.jpg and thumb5.jpg that were 96 bytes each, with the rest of the images not downloaded. Maybe you could try to reproduce by making a dummy movie if you don't have this one. I don't get an error message etc so I can't tell whats going wrong.
Regarding auto creation of extrathumbs.. my use of extrathumbs at the moment will be solely for use in xbmc multiplex view, and I will not actually be creating thumbs from the movie itself as I don't like the quality of alot of my dvd / dvd ripped content. I am trying to create "thumbs" that are actually originating from 1920 x 1080 fanart to keep the quality high. Currently there is no way to auto populate the extrathumbs folder in this fashion without manually going through every movie and selecting all of the fanart. If this isn't a very uncommon task then maybe I could ask that there be a way in a future version to download the highest quality version of each image to the extrathumbs folder. If its uncommon to do this, no worries... just might take a while to go through all of my movies to get all the fanart downloaded
Basically my ideal media manager would let me completely fill my extrathumbs with the highest quality fanart, and if I come along a week later and hit update all, that this feature would just download those fanarts that arn't already in my extrathumbs if a crc check can achieve this. I can then at any time go in and select my top 2 extrathumbs which I will see in xbmc etc, but the rest are all there. Checking of the crc's would be great, as features like copying all fanart to the backdrops directory could also be done on a weekly / monthly basis without worrying about duplicates.
Thanks for the continued work, excellent stuff.
Hmm.... I'll play with it some tonight to see if I can figure out what's going on.
mfsav2 Wrote:Perfect... solved all issues... amazing!
May I suggest a new feature?
As many newbies we got totally confused by the files in the folder.... which ones are needed for which skin
it would be great in the Settings - Movies to have some sort of "pore configured" setting for the skins (XML based so that it can be changed on the fly)
so that... depending on the skin right sets are choosen
It should be very simple to do...
but very usefull for everyone
Well, that's a little difficult because no files are needed. lol They're all optional. And the file types are selectable for personal preference and program compatibility, not skin compatibility.
The extrathumbs folder is really the only thing that is skin specific as I believe Aeon is the only skin utilizing these files.
mfsav2 Wrote:BUG: the Automatically Create Extrathumbs is not kept.
I click to enable it and the (leaving the Number to create empty) I click ok.
When I get back is still unchecked.
For me empty means: ALL
As Nuno mentioned, this is not a bug. If you don't enter a value for the # of thumbs to create, how is it to know how many you want? What does "ALL" mean to the frame extractor? lol So, if you leave it blank or 0 it unchecks itself.
mfsav2 Wrote:Feture request: for poster-fanart can you add a check "faultback on available size" so that during scrape if the desired size is not available it will get the first available one without stopping?
Feture request: is it possible to have an automatically skip if not found?
I have a lot of films and this does not allow me to update the collection overnight
Mf
It should already do this. You select the preferred image size you want to use in settings.
If you use an auto type updater then if the preferred size is not found it will get the first one it can, looking in order of size from largest to smallest.
If you use an ask type updater it will ask you which poster you want to use.
mfsav2 Wrote:nul7 apparently the title lock does not work.
this is the nfo before scraping:
<Movie>
<title>A.I. Intelligenza artificiale</title>
</movie>
http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0212720/
and this is after scrape
...snip...
as you can see the title was over written even if the flag Global Lock - Lock Title was enabled
Is it a bug or I did something wrong?
It's because the nfo file is "non-conforming" as far as Ember is concerned. I don't have support for nfos with URLs at the end, so it sees this as a non-compatible nfo, reads the IMDB ID to use for scraping, then downloads the new information. Since the nfo is considered "non-conforming" the title does not exist to Ember and is overwritten. Hope that makes sense.