(2015-08-13, 19:15)joeyd2424 Wrote: Must admit hate coming to the forums lol but several problems. Pseudo TV either crashes, get an error saying unable to populate channels please make sure you have scraped media, or it will load but once I get to the epg it turns transparent and can not exit unless I force close. Here's a log. Thanks in advance! http://xbmclogs.com/p7axrdapi#line-1

(2015-08-14, 15:41)Kode Wrote: PTVL seems to have massively increased the hits to the fanart.tv API in the last few days, is this a bug or just you are using it more?

Yesterday it accounted for nearly 60% of all traffic to the API

1. PTVL 6,225,116(58.82%)
2. Plex 939,753(8.88%)
3. Artwork Downloader 724,519(6.85%)

This has only happened over the last 3 days or so, so not sure if this is expected behaviour or a bug?

(2015-08-14, 18:31)aptalca Wrote: Luna, quick question about the artwork. . .

I'm curious about the decision behind using landscape images rather than fanart. In terms of file size they seem to be the comparable.

However about a third of my movies don't have landscape images whereas all of them have fanart. And since most skins use fanart images, most people already have them downloaded in their image cache. If ptvl used fanart there would potentially be less hits on fanart.tv (I imagine my ptvl keeps hitting fanart.tv every time it encounters a movie where I don't have a local landscape image. Most likely it ends up not finding one on there either.)

Just curious about what makes landscape images better for ptvl.

Thanks

(2015-08-14, 18:43)Lunatixz Wrote:

(2015-08-14, 18:31)aptalca Wrote: Luna, quick question about the artwork. . .

I'm curious about the decision behind using landscape images rather than fanart. In terms of file size they seem to be the comparable.

However about a third of my movies don't have landscape images whereas all of them have fanart. And since most skins use fanart images, most people already have them downloaded in their image cache. If ptvl used fanart there would potentially be less hits on fanart.tv (I imagine my ptvl keeps hitting fanart.tv every time it encounters a movie where I don't have a local landscape image. Most likely it ends up not finding one on there either.)

Just curious about what makes landscape images better for ptvl.

Thanks

I use landscape because that's what I prefer and I'm the skins designer

PTVL is designed to use fallbacks when the primary art isn't found.... Ie. Landscape falls back to fanart.

Has nothing to do with extra hits, sounds more like I broke the fanart caching function... Easy fix

(2015-08-14, 13:38)MrX4000 Wrote: Mine is .. but I was assuming it was the channel icons I have
I am still working through EPG stuff and channel edits ... so it might just be my setup

(2015-08-14, 21:54)aptalca Wrote:

(2015-08-14, 18:43)Lunatixz Wrote:

(2015-08-14, 18:31)aptalca Wrote: Luna, quick question about the artwork. . .

I'm curious about the decision behind using landscape images rather than fanart. In terms of file size they seem to be the comparable.

However about a third of my movies don't have landscape images whereas all of them have fanart. And since most skins use fanart images, most people already have them downloaded in their image cache. If ptvl used fanart there would potentially be less hits on fanart.tv (I imagine my ptvl keeps hitting fanart.tv every time it encounters a movie where I don't have a local landscape image. Most likely it ends up not finding one on there either.)

Just curious about what makes landscape images better for ptvl.

Thanks

I use landscape because that's what I prefer and I'm the skins designer

PTVL is designed to use fallbacks when the primary art isn't found.... Ie. Landscape falls back to fanart.

Has nothing to do with extra hits, sounds more like I broke the fanart caching function... Easy fix

Fair enough

In my experience though it never falls back to fanart. Lately I'm seeing it fall back to the channel icon (like the one with the text "documentary") and if there is no channel icon it shows a blank pic.

All my fanart have been cached with artwork downloader using the local option, and they are also exported to external files next to the media on my nas accessible through samba shares