More cover Art issues... this time Videos (1 Viewer)

[dandirk]

MediaPortal Version: 0.2.3.0 Stable
Windows Version: Windows XP SP2
CPU Type: Intel Core Duo
Video Card: ATI X1200 onboard
Video Card Driver: Cat 8.1

MPEG2 Video Codec: Nvidia
MPEG2 Audio Codec: Nvidia

TV: Panasonic 16:9
TV - HTPC Connection: HDMI


Is there a way to use custom covert art for DVD on HDD videos in the auto scan/import feature? Hopefully without a collection program like ANT.

I have a fairly large DVD collection with the file structure of DVD\%NAME%\VIDEO_TS\Video_TS.ifo

I have cover images that I manually download for each movie. I have tried to name and place my cover art in different places with out any luck.

I have tried %name%.jpg, %name%.tbn, folder.jpg, and folder.tbn in both the %NAME% folder and VIDEO_TS folder. None of these seem to work, the cover downloaded from IMDB seems to always be shown.

I have close to 400 movies so I would rather not sit and manually update each cover with the DB editor. I am also guessing that replacing files in the thumbs\movies\title folder would work but there must be an easier way.


Any suggestions?

 

[dandirk]

Am I the only one that likes to use their own cover art for videos?

 

[stig]

HI dandirk .....No your not on your own
I have a movie collection with around 470 film's all in individual folders with there cover art named the same as the movie

now if only we could get an update for DB editor to scan for the covers where the movie is located and if the movie name and the cover name are the same it will use that and instead of downloading it from IMDB ............... a bit like my music with it's folder.jpg

 

[dandirk]

Yeah, its a bit frustrating to see features in MP for music that have not been incorporated into videos.

Stig, how do you handle title prefix (The, A etc) for all your movies?

I just went through and had to manually change the title for ~70 movies, since this is another feature the Music DB has that Movie DB does not.

Even an option to copy the folder name as the title would be useful. This way you may have rename a lot of your folders but it would be done and over with.

Manual changes to the DB should be limited to odd movie, I am scared that MP is updated one day and I have to rebuild the DB and redo all the edits

 

[stig]

dandirk
Your lucky after a fresh install of XP & mediaportal with latest svn the scan only picked up about 130 movies
all my movies are named as IMDB's titles %movie name% (%year%)
as for the title prefix. Seeing that i had to manually enter about 340 of them all this was done by hand This made it a long night setting up mediaportal

 

[dandirk]

ouch sounds like with all your work, it maybe a good idea to go with MyFilms/ANT...

I would like to avoid this, but it may just be less work in the long run to do it up front and have a independent way to keep your information just in case of further reinstalls...

Too bad the TV module seems to get most of the dev time, seems most posts/fixes I see are for the TV portion. But I am selfish, I don't use the TV module. I have a HD DVR for that.

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

ouch sounds like with all your work, it maybe a good idea to go with MyFilms/ANT...

Just in case anyone decides to use AMC, the default grab for imdb is low res pictures, you need to change this in the script page to pictures 5 = Hi-res, this setting is on the right hand side, about half way down.

 

[BoelShit]

There is also a slight bug with Hi-res covers when looking them up with IMDB from within MP.

Fix is here but no dev ever looks at it i guess...
https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/creating_folder_jpg_within_mp_movies_imdb-t32584.html

 

[dandirk]

Just in case anyone decides to use AMC, the default grab for imdb is low res pictures, you need to change this in the script page to pictures 5 = Hi-res, this setting is on the right hand side, about half way down.

Thanks I was wondering about that when playing around with ANT. Though I guessing if I go through all that work I probably will swap my own covers in.