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<blockquote data-quote="n0idi0n" data-source="post: 154196" data-attributes="member: 51942">Hi all,LONG STORY:I've just begun using Mediaportal and am very impressed.&nbsp; I went through and scanned my movie collection, which worked pretty well except for a few completely off-base results with the coverart, but anyways.&nbsp; I noticed right away though that the coverart chosen was always poor quality, but if you manually change it, all the additional images are high resolution.&nbsp; So I went through and manually changed all my 192 movies, but then somehow the db was corrupted, so I rescanned it and again was presented with all the poor resolution images.&nbsp; When I looked in the thumbnails folder, I saw there was a small and large image for each movie, but the large one looks to be a scaled up version of the smaller one.&nbsp; Since I don't think it's just by chance that MP selects the one low res image out of all images available, I am guessing that it starts with a high res image, scales it down to make the smaller thumb, and then scales that one up to make the large one, which of course is of poor quality.&nbsp; Is this correct, and if so, why would it do it this way?The other mystery is where are the extra (sometimes 20+) images stored that are associated with each movie?&nbsp; I couldn't find them anywhere in the MP folder.&nbsp; Are they downloaded on the fly?TO THE POINT:How come MP always uses low res images for movie coverart, but the additional images are all high res?&nbsp; And where are the additional movie coverart images stored?I couldn't find anything in the forums on this, so maybe it's some weird anomaly with my system.Hope someone can shed some light on this.Thanks.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="n0idi0n, post: 154196, member: 51942"] Hi all, LONG STORY: I've just begun using Mediaportal and am very impressed. I went through and scanned my movie collection, which worked pretty well except for a few completely off-base results with the coverart, but anyways. I noticed right away though that the coverart chosen was always poor quality, but if you manually change it, all the additional images are high resolution. So I went through and manually changed all my 192 movies, but then somehow the db was corrupted, so I rescanned it and again was presented with all the poor resolution images. When I looked in the thumbnails folder, I saw there was a small and large image for each movie, but the large one looks to be a scaled up version of the smaller one. Since I don't think it's just by chance that MP selects the one low res image out of all images available, I am guessing that it starts with a high res image, scales it down to make the smaller thumb, and then scales that one up to make the large one, which of course is of poor quality. Is this correct, and if so, why would it do it this way? The other mystery is where are the extra (sometimes 20+) images stored that are associated with each movie? I couldn't find them anywhere in the MP folder. Are they downloaded on the fly? TO THE POINT: How come MP always uses low res images for movie coverart, but the additional images are all high res? And where are the additional movie coverart images stored? I couldn't find anything in the forums on this, so maybe it's some weird anomaly with my system. Hope someone can shed some light on this. Thanks. [/QUOTE]

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