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wizard123

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    <keepaspectratio>yes</keepaspectratio>
    <zoomfromtop>yes</zoomfromtop>

    Will keep the area filled but will obviously be blurry on most thumbs but leaving zoom tag off will usually give you black bars top and bottom.

    Actually if you leave zoom off you will just get a small thumbnail but in correct aspect with the only problem being that normal covers will vary in fullsize.


    I would use the following
    keepaspectratio = true
    valign = top
    align = left
    height = 563 (unchanged)
    width = 500 (ie. wider)

    This will result in exactly the same view with movie posters, but 16x9 preview thumbs will have correct AR with adequate height.

    Have you tried it ?
     

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    yes it's fine. You just have remove the shadow. Ideally replace shadow with a border function. (assuming border follows dynamic AR)
     

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    Ok well it does not look fine on mine because some coverarts are different sizes and with AR on the space will go empty underneath.
    But nevermind just i personally dont like the coverarts getting wider or thinner for me they should be one set size.
     
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    You can do whatever size you want. If you want less potential empty space below make the width more. You are trading empty space to the right for empty space below. Corrected AR looks better than distorted thumb with vertical stretch with no space below, but lots of space to the right.[DOUBLEPOST=1373711591][/DOUBLEPOST]

    650 width as example. prob best with ~500, I don't think you want to exceed 600 as it could potentially overlap the codec logos. I don't really use my videos, so no point me trying to get any thing perfect.
    Code:
    <control>
    <description>Cover Art</description>
    <type>image</type>
    <id>60</id>
    <posX>123</posX>
    <posY>360</posY>
    <width>650</width>
    <height>563</height>
    				<keepaspectratio>true</keepaspectratio>
    				<align>left</align>
    				<valign>top</valign>
    <texture>#selectedthumb</texture>
    <visible>[facadeview.list|facadeview.playlist]+Control.IsVisible(50)</visible>
    <animation effect="fade" time="250">WindowOpen</animation>
    <animation effect="fade" time="250">WindowClose</animation>
    </control>


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    02.jpg
    03.jpg
     
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    PulsatingQuasar

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    For me it's not a problem if the codec logo's overlap.

    To be honestly. I never thought about covert art in this location. It dawned on me an hour ago that there are 2 kinds of people making use of Mediaportal. Those that use cover art and those that don't.

    If the area is larger it might also make having 4 thumbnails for a video usefull again. Not that I would use that but some people might.
     
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