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<blockquote data-quote="Lehmden" data-source="post: 1253072" data-attributes="member: 109222"><p>Hi.</p><p>This is a very complex topic also it looks easy at first glance...</p><p>In general the naming schemes in Kodi are more restrict than in MP2. MP2 can use more different naming schemes than Kodi. But some things need to be different to be fully working for both. MP1 and MP2 are also not fully compatible in this respect. Especially for Series there is no way to use local fanart and metadata in MP1 at all... tMM's "MediaPortal" settings are made for MP1, not MP2. For movies this would work in MP2 too as MP2 is nearly 100% compatible to MovingPictures (from MP1) here. But for series you only will have Kodi compatible fanart and metadata as there is none in MP1. As Opposite Media-Buddy is mainly based on the MP2 standards, also we're working on a completely configurable and multi- compatible version. As example. Kodi expects season poster in the "root" series folder named "seasonxx-poster.jpg" where xx is the season number with 2 digits (e.g. season01-poster.jpg). MP2 expects those as "poster.jpg" in the season folders. Episodes thumbs for Kodi must be named "{videoname}-thumb.jpg" where MP2 prefers "{videoname}.jpg". Aside this it has to be "disc.png" for MP and "discart.png" for Kodi,...</p><p></p><p>Movieset fanart generally is not handled in Kodi. Instead of the movieset-fanart and movieset-poster it uses fanart and poster from one randomly picked movie belonging to this set... In my local Version (not jet released to public) of Media-Buddy there is a tool available to manipulate the Kodi Database to use the correct movieset fanart instead of a random movie fanart as it does ootb. And so on, and so on..</p><p></p><p>tMM can handle multiple online sources but the user needs to select which one to use. Media-Buddy uses theMovieDB, fanart.tv and TVDB all together and tries to get the best possible result. And if you still not satisfied you always can change things after the automatic scrapping. In my series collection there about 30 series not even listed on TVDB and about 20% of all my episodes don't have localized (German) description on TVDB. Many of them did have localized descriptions on TheMovieDB and additionally some of those series not listed on TVDB are available on themoviedb. Choosing only one online source could not deliver a close to perfect result. That's why Media-Buddy tries to get the best out of as many possible sources as available...</p><p> </p><p>The "Final" version of Media-Buddy, once it's ready, will be able to store all fanart and metadata in a way it is compatible with both, Kodi and MediaPortal2. MediaPortal1 is not planed to be a part of this due to a lack of fanart support for series in general... For movies it is compatible to MP2 so MP1 can be used without issues too.</p><p></p><p></p><p>To answer this, yes you can. Some things (like episodes thumbs or discart.png) are not recognized when they are in Kodi naming scheme in the released version of Media-Buddy. Those things will work in the next public pre- release planned for early spring this year...</p><p>Hopefully we also will get the "final" version out in summer, but this can not be promised...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lehmden, post: 1253072, member: 109222"] Hi. This is a very complex topic also it looks easy at first glance... In general the naming schemes in Kodi are more restrict than in MP2. MP2 can use more different naming schemes than Kodi. But some things need to be different to be fully working for both. MP1 and MP2 are also not fully compatible in this respect. Especially for Series there is no way to use local fanart and metadata in MP1 at all... tMM's "MediaPortal" settings are made for MP1, not MP2. For movies this would work in MP2 too as MP2 is nearly 100% compatible to MovingPictures (from MP1) here. But for series you only will have Kodi compatible fanart and metadata as there is none in MP1. As Opposite Media-Buddy is mainly based on the MP2 standards, also we're working on a completely configurable and multi- compatible version. As example. Kodi expects season poster in the "root" series folder named "seasonxx-poster.jpg" where xx is the season number with 2 digits (e.g. season01-poster.jpg). MP2 expects those as "poster.jpg" in the season folders. Episodes thumbs for Kodi must be named "{videoname}-thumb.jpg" where MP2 prefers "{videoname}.jpg". Aside this it has to be "disc.png" for MP and "discart.png" for Kodi,... Movieset fanart generally is not handled in Kodi. Instead of the movieset-fanart and movieset-poster it uses fanart and poster from one randomly picked movie belonging to this set... In my local Version (not jet released to public) of Media-Buddy there is a tool available to manipulate the Kodi Database to use the correct movieset fanart instead of a random movie fanart as it does ootb. And so on, and so on.. tMM can handle multiple online sources but the user needs to select which one to use. Media-Buddy uses theMovieDB, fanart.tv and TVDB all together and tries to get the best possible result. And if you still not satisfied you always can change things after the automatic scrapping. In my series collection there about 30 series not even listed on TVDB and about 20% of all my episodes don't have localized (German) description on TVDB. Many of them did have localized descriptions on TheMovieDB and additionally some of those series not listed on TVDB are available on themoviedb. Choosing only one online source could not deliver a close to perfect result. That's why Media-Buddy tries to get the best out of as many possible sources as available... The "Final" version of Media-Buddy, once it's ready, will be able to store all fanart and metadata in a way it is compatible with both, Kodi and MediaPortal2. MediaPortal1 is not planed to be a part of this due to a lack of fanart support for series in general... For movies it is compatible to MP2 so MP1 can be used without issues too. To answer this, yes you can. Some things (like episodes thumbs or discart.png) are not recognized when they are in Kodi naming scheme in the released version of Media-Buddy. Those things will work in the next public pre- release planned for early spring this year... Hopefully we also will get the "final" version out in summer, but this can not be promised... [/QUOTE]
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