Cover for file strip very low res, why? (1 Viewer)

[riadmelb]

I have highest res setting MediaPortal, but recently covers in film strip started appearing very low res.

Once you click on the movie to display movie info, the cover is in high res.

Thank you very much.

 

[fforde]

Moving Pictures uses a thumbnail image for the facade images for speed purposes. If your skin uses very large images in the Filmstrip view though you can sometimes see jaggies and what not. If you goto your thumbs folder and copy the contents of MovingPictures\Covers\FullSize\ to MovingPictures\Covers\Thumbs\ (overwrite existing files) this should give you full size images in the facade. This will however probably slow things down a bit, FYI.

 

[ryan20021982]

Another idea to prevent lagging would be to get a program like batch picture resizer and make the fullsize covers the same size as they are actually displayed in the view you want to use.

Which skin do you use?

 

[riadmelb]

Thank you for your comments.

I use Black Glass.

 

[ltfearme]

I would definitely do what ryan20021982 suggests, maybe start with a width of 250px. Go up or down from that based on what you think works best for your system.

 

[ryan20021982]

ltfearme did you just pick a number for the width?

Pretty dang close to whats actually used..lol

<thumbWidth>180</thumbWidth>
<thumbHeight>254</thumbHeight>

 

[ltfearme]

heh, not really that close...you got the width / height the wrong way around.

180px is not that much greater than the default thumb size that MovingPictures generates which is 175px. So maybe the thumbs that are currently low quality are due to the original full size image being of low quality.

 

[ryan20021982]

heh, not really that close...you got the width / height the wrong way around.

180px is not that much greater than the default thumb size that MovingPictures generates which is 175px. So maybe the thumbs that are currently low quality are due to the original full size image being of low quality.

Opps I guess I was dyslexic for a min

Ya I doubt that will make a difference then I didnt even check the defult thumbs size.