MP Movie Cover Resizer

mirk · 2007-09-15, 23:12

GENERAL INFORMATION
This application is intended to resize the video cover thumbs that is used by MediaPortals my video plugin.
Do you as well as i think the size/quality of the thumbs that is generated when download IMDB is to low. Maybee this
tool could be of som intrest.
All you need is to specify where youre video cover directory is located and the application will replace you current thumbs
with new ones with you specifications. The sources is the large cover that is manly used by MP for preview covers.

INSTALL GUIDE
************************************************** ************************************************
BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING YOU REALY SHOULD BACKUP YOURE VIDEO COVER FOLDER, OR EVEN BETTER YOU WHOLE MEDIA PORTAL DIRECTORY
************************************************** ************************************************
- Start the application from the release folder. There are no need for special install for the aplication it self.
- Press the Browse button and specify the location of the Video cover directory. In most cases it
is C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Thumbs\Videos\Title\
- Press OK.
- Now you need to select the specifications you want youre new thumbs to have. You can choose procent of the orginal
size of the source image or you can set a fixed size. Remeber that if you choose to make the images too large, browsing in
my videos can feel laggy. I think in most cases 80% should work fine.
- Press "Resize Covers" button.
- You should now see that progress on the progressbar. Keep in mind that if you resize to a large images and/or you have a
lot of images, the progress can take several minutes.

If you experice that my videos is to laggy, repeat the process and choose a smaller images.

CHANGELOG
v 0.1
- Initial release

DOWNLOAD

Flam · 2007-09-17, 14:38

Just tried out this Plugin and it works great. Thanks man!

The last 4 days I was asking myself why the covers look that bad and with this it's all perfect. It looks especially nice with your SpinSafe Revolve Skin in the Big Icon view!

Keep up the good work!

Paranoid Delusion · 2007-09-17, 16:10

Thanks mirk

Looks a hell of a lot better on a HDTV, nice tool, can recommend to anyone and dead easy to use.

Regards

noxx2 · 2007-09-19, 23:16

wonderful, thx for this great tool. i use ofdb and the thumbs are terrible....

ltfearme · 2007-09-20, 01:45

I would suggest a command line version as well

That way you can run it as a NT schedule in the background as often as you like.

mirk · 2007-09-20, 21:01

Its realy great, someone more that me find this to be a good tool.

Quote:

Originally Posted by ltfearme

I would suggest a command line version as well

That way you can run it as a NT schedule in the background as often as you like.

Not a bad idea... will see if i can make it work. Tanks.

EDIT: Hopefully MPs internal thumb maker will create bigger thumbs in the future.

Avigrace · 2007-09-27, 19:22

I just tried this tool and I have a query. So it takes the L version and then resaves it based on what percentage you give it, how come then if I select 100% the new thumb file is 10x bigger than the L version? They both seem to be the same quality which is good but why the difference in size?

mirk · 2007-09-27, 19:55

Quote:

Originally Posted by Avigrace

I just tried this tool and I have a query. So it takes the L version and then resaves it based on what percentage you give it, how come then if I select 100% the new thumb file is 10x bigger than the L version? They both seem to be the same quality which is good but why the difference in size?

I infect the cover files with a virus !....just kidding

Unfortunaly it creates the new covers in a bigger color dept, 32 bits insted of 24. I dont realy know how to fix this.

Kenny_mp · 2007-09-29, 17:42

Mirk, i just tested your application and works great... looks a lot lot better now... thanks for this

ltfearme · 2007-09-30, 08:01

Here is a little vbscript file you can just run as a NT Schedule or double click on it to make copies of the Large files and replace the exist low res ones.

2007-09-15, 23:12	#1 (permalink)
mirk Portal Designer Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Växjö, Sweden Age: 25 Posts: 845 Thanks: 43 Thanked 58 Times in 20 Posts Country: My System	MP Movie Cover Resizer GENERAL INFORMATION This application is intended to resize the video cover thumbs that is used by MediaPortals my video plugin. Do you as well as i think the size/quality of the thumbs that is generated when download IMDB is to low. Maybee this tool could be of som intrest. All you need is to specify where youre video cover directory is located and the application will replace you current thumbs with new ones with you specifications. The sources is the large cover that is manly used by MP for preview covers. INSTALL GUIDE ************************************************ ******************************************** BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING YOU REALY SHOULD BACKUP YOURE VIDEO COVER FOLDER, OR EVEN BETTER YOU WHOLE MEDIA PORTAL DIRECTORY ********************************************** ******************************************** - Start the application from the release folder. There are no need for special install for the aplication it self. - Press the Browse button and specify the location of the Video cover directory. In most cases it is C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Thumbs\Videos\Title\ - Press OK. - Now you need to select the specifications you want youre new thumbs to have. You can choose procent of the orginal size of the source image or you can set a fixed size. Remeber that if you choose to make the images too large, browsing in my videos can feel laggy. I think in most cases 80% should work fine. - Press "Resize Covers" button. - You should now see that progress on the progressbar. Keep in mind that if you resize to a large images and/or you have a lot of images, the progress can take several minutes. If you experice that my videos is to laggy, repeat the process and choose a smaller images. CHANGELOG** v 0.1 - Initial release DOWNLOAD __________________ Download SpinSafe skins \| TVSeries Logos \| Swedish TV logos Found a bug in one of the SpinSafe skins? Why not add it to the SpinSafe bugtracker... Last edited by mirk; 2007-09-16 at 23:34.

2007-09-17, 16:10	#3 (permalink)
Paranoid Delusion Super Moderator Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Cheshire UK Posts: 5,956 Thanks: 107 Thanked 180 Times in 161 Posts Country: My System	Thanks mirk Looks a hell of a lot better on a HDTV, nice tool, can recommend to anyone and dead easy to use. Regards __________________ Ray\PD Check your codecs are fine with Filmerit. XP\Vista known issues FOR FULL SUPPORT PLEASE GIVE USER SPECIFICATIONS AND RELEVANT LOG's as per HERE

2007-09-19, 23:16	#4 (permalink)
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2007-09-17, 14:38	#2 (permalink)
Flam Portal Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 6 Thanks: 2 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Just tried out this Plugin and it works great. Thanks man! The last 4 days I was asking myself why the covers look that bad and with this it's all perfect. It looks especially nice with your SpinSafe Revolve Skin in the Big Icon view! Keep up the good work!

2007-09-20, 01:45	#5 (permalink)
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2007-09-27, 19:22	#7 (permalink)
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2007-09-29, 17:42	#9 (permalink)
Kenny_mp Portal Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Age: 29 Posts: 26 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Country: My System	Mirk, i just tested your application and works great... looks a lot lot better now... thanks for this