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Some preview thumbs aren't generated - simonk83 - 2012-06-20
Hi again,
Another quick question. Not sure if it's skin related to be honest, but any help appreciated.
So I generally have new shows "arrive" every day via Sickbeard which triggers an XBMC update as soon as it's completed, and I watch them that same night when I get home. I've noticed that with some (not all) shows, a preview thumbnail isn't generated (or scraped, I'm not sure how it works, but I mean the image that's a snapshot of a frame from the episode and is displayed in the recently added list). This just defaults to the generic, "missing" xbmc image, which just annoys me
Often if I open that episode info and hit refresh, it'll populate with an image (I assume it scrapes it from thetvdb or something), but not always, and I was under the impression that XBMC would generate that image on its own if it wasn't present.
Is there any way I can force it to do that, as it's getting on my nerves seeing the ugly missing image placeholder
Now there is a setting in the Video settings that sounds like it should be doing that, but I have it checked and it's clearly not doing it.
Thanks
EDIT: Bit more info on this. Using Maraschino, I managed to do a bit of digging and found that XBMC was trying to use a file called auto-89971f49.tbn which is in my userdata/thumbnails/Video folder.
I opened this file, and it's just blank (0 bytes). I noticed there are a bunch more files prefixed with "auto" in that folder, and the majority are all empty as well (though not all). The regular tbn's (that are just numbers) work fine.
I assume this is the problem? It's generating thumbs, but messing it up somehow?
EDIT2:
Right, this runs a little deeper. I've also just noticed that a lot of my TV shows, when I hit Info, don't display their poster (although some do). An example of this is The Borgias, so I enabled debug and grabbed a log: http://xbmclogs.com/show.php?id=3855
In there, as far as I can tell, XBMC is looking for a poster at "volume1/NAS/TV/The Borgias/../poster.jpg" when it should be "volume1/NAS/TV/The Borgias/poster.jpg" (although I'm fairly sure I've got "use poster.jpg" turned off so it should probably be using folder.jpg, which is also present at that path). This leads to a "stat call failed with "NFS: Lookup of //TV failed with NFS3ERR_NOENT(-2)"" because of course that path doesn't exist.
I'm new to XBMC so I could be way off, but something's wrong regardless.
Not sure what other info you need, but I'm running OpenELEC 1.95.04 on a Zotac AD04.
RE: Some preview thumbs aren't generated - jmarshall - 2012-06-20
XBMC isn't looking for poster.jpg. The skin is.
RE: Some preview thumbs aren't generated - simonk83 - 2012-06-20
(2012-06-20, 23:36)jmarshall Wrote: XBMC isn't looking for poster.jpg. The skin is.
OK, I'll get onto the Nox guys about that.
Any ideas regarding the preview thumb for episodes?
RE: Some preview thumbs aren't generated - simonk83 - 2012-06-28
Can anyone help with the previews not generating? It happens everyday
