No cover art displayed for ISO files in shares view

[thefloyd]

TV-Server Version: not used
MediaPortal Version: 1.0.0.0 RC1
MediaPortal Skin: electric lead blue
Windows Version: XP Pro SP3
CPU Type: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400
HDD: Western Digital 250 GB internal and 500 GB external
Memory: 2GB Muschkin Enchnced PC3200
Motherboard: Generic Winfast Micro ATX
Video Card: EVGA 7950 GT Superclocked 512MB
Video Card Driver: latest Nvidia 173.?
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Sound Card Driver: latest, non beta version
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MPEG2 Video Codec: Power DVD 7
MPEG2 Audio Codec: Power DVD 7
h.264 Video Codec: Power DVD 7
Satelite/CableTV Provider: DirectTV
HTPC Case: Coolmaster
Cooling: stock
Power Supply: 400W stock
Remote: ProntoNeo
TV: Pioneer PDP 5080HD
TV - HTPC Connection: HDMI

Here's my issue I upgraded from an old build of Mediaportal 0.2.3.3 I believe, which was very stable and gave me no issues to 1.0.0.0 RC1. In the process of doing so I had to completely wipe out my old installation including my movie database (its the only way that the installer would let me install RC1). Anyway, after updating my movies from IMDB I discovered that I could no longer see my cover art in shares view for ISO files. I CAN see cover art for other types of files such as DIVX and XVID. However if I switch to title view all the art is there. What gives? I prefer to use the shares view because I keep my movies grouped in different folders and do not want to have them all mixed together as they are in title view. Is there some sort of workaround to allow me to see the cover art for ISO files while in shares view? Thanks for any help you can give me.

[carukc]

Hello,

It's nice to see that someone else has this problem...

I have 4 or 5 installations of MediaPortal (on different machines). 3 of these always have the newest SVN installed (currently SVN-Snapshot:-07-11-2008 10-18h - Revision:19603) and each exhibits this problem.

I have not been seeing DVD covers when browsing by shares for either ISOs or IMGs for well over a year. I've just not got around to looking into it. It seems to me that it occurred sometime around a major database change. DVD covers appear for all other file types. I know that the DVD cover is available because when I request film information (cached IMDB info) the cover appears (immediately) with the film description. The covers can also be seen when browsing the library (by year or genre).

I think that this may be because the routine that queries the database for cover information does not strip out the ‘.iso’ or ‘.img’ in the file name because it is not a ‘default’ file type, but this is just a guess. I have been intending to download the source and take a look but have never had the time.
Has anyone else out there seen this or found a solution?

Thanks
Chris

TV-Server Version: SVN-Snapshot:-07-11-2008 10-18h - Revision:19603
MediaPortal Version: SVN-Snapshot:-07-11-2008 10-18h - Revision:19603
MediaPortal Skin: Indigo
Windows Version: Vista 64 / Vista 32 / XP SP2
CPU Type: Pentium-D / Pentium dual core / AMD 6400
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Satelite/CableTV Provider: Sky
HTPC Case: nCubed / Antec / Other
Cooling: Watercooled / Passive
Power Supply: Various
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[thefloyd]

I did some digging around on the forums after noone responded to my post an discovered a tedious workaround for this issue. If you copy the cover art from the folder where mediaportal downloads it (c:\documents and settings\all users\application data\team mediaportal\mediaportal\thumbs\videos\title) to the folder that contains your .ISO files Media portal will then be able to see the pictures. Just be sure that the name of the cover art file is the same as the name of your .ISO file (i.e STUFF.ISO and STUFF.JPG) I don't have any .IMG files on my HTPC at the moment, but I would assume that it would work the same. I'm really surprised that this glaring issue has not been fixed.

Hope this helped





Anthony









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[-Manfred-]

Have you seen this MediaSlayer thread? Download dlls or patch and try it out.