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<blockquote data-quote="fforde" data-source="post: 166541" data-attributes="member: 52082">This is kind of a complicated solution but here's an idea on incorporating fanart into thetvdb.com. Instead of hosting the file itself, the database would host a .torrent file for each individual piece of fan art. For this to really work though the TVShow plugin would really need an embedded bittorrent client, which obviously is no small task. There are some <a href="http://www.monotorrent.com/" target="_blank">open source bittorrent libraries</a> though that might be usable, but again, not easy. :/Basically though on each user's machine, when running MediaPortal, the TVShows plugin would be seeding whatever fanart they currently have downloaded on their system. When the user scans for new video files and is importing a new show, the fanart would automatically be downloaded via the embedded bittorrent client based on the .torrent file hosted at thetvdb.com. Not the simplest solution, this sounds like a version 2.0 feature to me, but I think this would provide the end user a very smooth experience. It is asking a lot from the guys over at thetvdb.com to basically add a torrent tracker to their server, but it would not bring with it too much added bandwidth load.Maybe not feasible, but I thought I'd throw it out there. Any thoughts?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="fforde, post: 166541, member: 52082"] This is kind of a complicated solution but here's an idea on incorporating fanart into thetvdb.com. Instead of hosting the file itself, the database would host a .torrent file for each individual piece of fan art. For this to really work though the TVShow plugin would really need an embedded bittorrent client, which obviously is no small task. There [i]are[/i] some [url=http://www.monotorrent.com/]open source bittorrent libraries[/url] though that might be usable, but again, not easy. :/ Basically though on each user's machine, when running MediaPortal, the TVShows plugin would be seeding whatever fanart they currently have downloaded on their system. When the user scans for new video files and is importing a new show, the fanart would automatically be downloaded via the embedded bittorrent client based on the .torrent file hosted at thetvdb.com. Not the simplest solution, this sounds like a version 2.0 feature to me, but I think this would provide the end user a very smooth experience. It is asking a lot from the guys over at thetvdb.com to basically add a torrent tracker to their server, but it would not bring with it too much added bandwidth load. Maybe not feasible, but I thought I'd throw it out there. Any thoughts? [/QUOTE]

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