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- cascius - 2009-03-20 23:43

I just wanted to add a little trick to find fanarts or high res photos:
In google image search, you can define the exact size you're looking for.
For example, type this in google: imagesize:1920x1080 batman
it will only return 1080p images with the keyword batman in them. The results are overall terrific IMO.
Hope this is useful to some of you,

- Cas

- Cranial - 2009-03-20 23:51

I have run Media Companion virtually, but it did turn into a bit of a pain sometimes due to my media being on HFS+ drives and subsequent permissions issues and such. This was on VMWare though, so might try some other methods.

An OSX / Linux based app would be great.

- Cranial - 2009-03-20 23:52

cascius Wrote:I just wanted to add a little trick to find fanarts or high res photos:
In google image search, you can define the exact size you're looking for.
For example, type this in google: imagesize:1920x1080 batman
it will only return 1080p images with the keyword batman in them. The results are overall terrific IMO.
Hope this is useful to some of you,

- Cas

Didn't know you could this. Thank you, always learning.

- cascius - 2009-03-21 00:33

Cranial Wrote:Didn't know you could this. Thank you, always learning.

Yeah, it's something I've wished existed for a long time. Today I looked for that feature and was extremely happy to find it. Smile

Happy image hunting!

- Cas

- Pr.Sinister - 2009-03-21 03:51

hikaricore Wrote:When Media Companion runs on Linux this will be a reasonable suggestion, for the rest of us however it's a carrot on a stick.

Have you tried using Wine, VirtualBox, VMWare or something to that effect?

If that doesn't work, i wouldn't mind zipping up my NFO's and sharing them with
people who need them. Obviously i don't have every movie but i am sure i have
some that you guys have Smile

-Pr.

- hikaricore - 2009-03-21 04:36

Pr.Sinister Wrote:Have you tried using Wine, VirtualBox, VMWare or something to that effect?

If that doesn't work, i wouldn't mind zipping up my NFO's and sharing them with
people who need them. Obviously i don't have every movie but i am sure i have
some that you guys have Smile

-Pr.

If i recall it uses .NET and even with the appropriate libraries installed doesn't run under WINE.
I'm not about to setup a VM just so I can run Media Companion, that's absurd.

Just saddened that the functionality to manually edit entries doesn't exist in XBMC and that the only external editor is .NET reliant.

I don't need NFOs I just have a few pesky movies and tv series that could be easily fixed if I could edit the database.

- fekker - 2009-03-21 04:39

Pr.Sinister Wrote:Have you tried using Wine, VirtualBox, VMWare or something to that effect?

If that doesn't work, i wouldn't mind zipping up my NFO's and sharing them with
people who need them. Obviously i don't have every movie but i am sure i have
some that you guys have Smile

-Pr.

While it's not near as fast as under windows, MIP works under wine.. 1.1.06 or higher (recommend 1.1.14+), with the app size at 1024x768 (either in a virtual window, or just don't go full screen if you have a high rez monitor as the image load time is slow at higher resolutions)).. it's not native to linux yet, but better then nada.

There's details on how to install it in the wiki for MIP (see sig)
It uses .net 2.0, with wine tricks it's alot easier then it used to be to install it

- Hitcher - 2009-03-23 21:11

Seeing as AEON will now load your cached thumb if there's no '-big.png' present I thought I'd do some testing today to see the difference between the two and here's the results.

Notes:

1920x1080 display

movie.tbn dimensions 1080x720

Default thumbsize (512) - NO <thumbsize> used in advancedsettings.xml


INFO SCREEN with -BIG.PNG

[Image: screenshot000v.png]

INFO SCREEN with cached tbn

[Image: screenshot000m.png]

As you can see there's really nothing in it so as long as you've got your movie.tbn images at nice size and don't lower the <thumbsize> that's all you need do.

- freezy - 2009-03-23 21:16

seems that your poster is upsized anyway? the title is blurred in both images...

- daveisadork - 2009-03-23 22:54

freezy Wrote:seems that your poster is upsized anyway? the title is blurred in both images...

It looks that way to me too. Hitcher, why don't you grab this version of the poster and try with it instead?

http://themoviedb.org/image/posters/6793/folder.jpg