can MP use local cover files? (1 Viewer)

[raphael]

Hi
I have all movies in one folder with covers.
Movie and Cover have the same name e.g
Tiltle1.mkv and Title1.jpg
Can I force MP to use my cover files?
I have all in one folder

 

[hafblade]

Don't know if this is possible but I guarantee you that you will have a much much easier time in the future if you sort it into subfolders.
I'm using htpc applications now over 6 years and when I have learned something in this time it is that you should stick with the standard.
If you stick with the standard you will be able to use all your data in almost all possible htpc applications like MediaPortal, XBMC, MediaPortal 2, Windows Media Center, Windows Media Player, DVB Viewer and so on and so on...

So there is no absolute standard but there are some "normal" structures for movie / series folders like the following:

Movies:

Moviename (year)/Moviename (year).<ext> (movie)
Moviename (year)/folder.jpg
Moviename (year)/Moviename (year).jpg
Moviename (year)/Moviename (year).nfo
Moviename (year)/fanart.jpg
Moviename (year)/backdrop.jpg
...

Series:

Series/s01e01 - <title>.<ext>
Series/s01e02 - <title>.<ext>
Series/s01e03 - <title>.<ext>
...
Series/s02e01 - <title>.<ext>
Series/s02e02 - <title>.<ext>
...

And so on.

@Note for me
I think it's time for me to write some standard file naming etc. tutorial. I wanted to write it now for long time. Perhaps I could do it this weekend.

 

[raphael]

But then I can't browse movies in standard MP way

I found also another thing:
All movies with rating PG-13 are shown as PG
I used standard default importer settings

 

[RoChess]

But then I can't browse movies in standard MP way

I found also another thing:
All movies with rating PG-13 are shown as PG
I used standard default importer settings

You should be able to use %filename%.jpg for cover import setting, so you can do it as you wish.

As far as "PG" being used for a PG-13 movie, that sounds like a problem with the default imdb.com scraper script then. I just tested it in my IMDb+ scraper-script system and it still works fine in there, so imdb.com did not change their website again (they have changed it before that caused the exact same problem).

I'll log the PG problem at the right spot (Google code issue tracker), so just be patient for next version, or if you are impatient you could give IMDb+ a try.

 

[raphael]

thanks
both solutions work perfect