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Message: <blockquote data-quote="e_razor" data-source="post: 412616" data-attributes="member: 22941">On my behalf there are multiple goals, to sum them up:I'm lazy... or rather, i belive in coding something to do a task rather than doing it manually. I have around 4 TB of movies stored up, for various reasons including a raid breakdown i've had to straighten out my movie collection 3 times and getting kinda fed up with it. (of course this is my problem and not moving pictures developers<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />) Just remembering from previous mediaportal installs, that i agree with around roughly 90% of the covers and backdrops the plugin picks up. So in essence thats 90% less work for me <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />People like to copy from my rather extensive movie collection, then its really nice that the images come with the movie in its folder. (These beeing handpicked images of best resolution and such. Again with the 90% of the covers the plugin picks up are totally fine)I bet a lot of people dont know how to or forget to back up the images where the plugin stores them in application data. Then you have another failsafe. And other programs can make use of the images aswell, wich is a nice biproduct.Additionally, having the folder.jpg in the movie folder lets you browse the files in the default video plugin comming with mediaportal without having to build a database there. I use them both, moving pictures and the regular plugin, not building a movie database in the later plugin, more for a quick browse. Its nice to see the covers there without having to build a database. It speeds up rebuilds, saves bandwith and reduces load on the sites hosting the images. My personal bandwith usage is not a problem since i have no limitations, but not everyone is this fortunate. A full rebuild with image re-downloads takes hours when your collection starts to build up to 500+ movies, wich i'm sure quite many users have by now.This behavior should not be default for the plugin of course, but if its not like a huge amount of coding it would be a really neat feature. And please, you moving pictures developers really do an awesome job, dont get me wrong, not demanding anything. You are also really good at keeping in touch with the users and listen to feature requests. So all the glory in the world to you! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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