2011-03-06, 11:13
Please everyone, don't confuse a remote control with a skin.
A skin, since "running" on the same machine as XBMC, can look into directories for things like landscape.jpg or banner.png and show these as thumbnails instead of the ones XBMC got scraped.
A remote control can't. I can only present what XBMC gives me as a thumbnail for a certain item via http interface.
So for XBMC Commander to show posters, XBMC itself must be set up to scrape for posters (thats somewhere in the scrapers settings), and all items must be scraped to the library using this setting (just changing it won't help).
I know this can be a pain in the a**, and as far as i know team xbmc is about to change this sooner or later, allowing posters and banners to live side by side.
But right now (apart from some skins that "hack" around this) you'll have to choose once whether you want posters or banners, set up your scraper accordingly, and build your tv show library around this setting.
Again:
XBMC Commander won't download any banners or posters for you. It will "just" display whatever xbmcs interface offers.
It won't directly access your userdata directory or anything else on your htpc.
It will cache all thumbnails and metadata on the ipad for quicker loading though.
A skin, since "running" on the same machine as XBMC, can look into directories for things like landscape.jpg or banner.png and show these as thumbnails instead of the ones XBMC got scraped.
A remote control can't. I can only present what XBMC gives me as a thumbnail for a certain item via http interface.
So for XBMC Commander to show posters, XBMC itself must be set up to scrape for posters (thats somewhere in the scrapers settings), and all items must be scraped to the library using this setting (just changing it won't help).
I know this can be a pain in the a**, and as far as i know team xbmc is about to change this sooner or later, allowing posters and banners to live side by side.
But right now (apart from some skins that "hack" around this) you'll have to choose once whether you want posters or banners, set up your scraper accordingly, and build your tv show library around this setting.
Again:
XBMC Commander won't download any banners or posters for you. It will "just" display whatever xbmcs interface offers.
It won't directly access your userdata directory or anything else on your htpc.
It will cache all thumbnails and metadata on the ipad for quicker loading though.