rich_stwrt Wrote:When you check 'prefer posters' all that does is it sets the internal scraper (when not using locally stored info) to look for posters rather than banners for your TV shows.

When XBMC scrapes your local media, it will always look for the file "folder.jpg" and store that image as the thumbnail... it does not pay any attention to files named 'banner' or 'poster'.

So here is where it can get confusing. Every skin author has their preference as to what the default image should be. For the default skin Confluence, the author prefers banners, so his skin assumes that 'folder.jpg' is a banner, and displays it as a banner sized image. If 'folder.jpg' is a poster, it stretches it to fill the space. But, there is an option in the skin to use posters. In that case, the skin ignores 'folder.jpg' and looks for the file 'poster.jpg'.

Conversly, Jeroen would seem to prefer posters. So this skin assumes that 'folder.jpg' is a poster, and adjusts that image to fit in a poster sized space. If it happens to be a banner, then it squishes it to fit the space. But, there is an option to use banners, so if this is selected, 'folder.jpg' is ignored and 'banner.jpg' is used.

I know this is a bit a an oversimplification, but it gives you the idea. The real take away from this discussion is that you need to look at the file 'folder.jpg' in your media directories and make sure they are posters if you want to use ReFocus (i'm assuming they are not). You can change them manually, or you could use the new 'artwork downloader' script to download the posters (it gives you the option use a banner or poster for 'folder.jpg').

Now here is the real pain. in order to get this to show up in your library, you are going to need to 1) go to the info screen for each show and do a refresh using locally stored data, 2) delete that source from XBMC, then re-add it and let it scrape everything from scratch. (if anyone has a better way to accomplish this, please let me know).

Maybe someday the developers will change it where XBMC doesn't use 'folder.jpg' but instead stores both the banner and the poster image. But, this is likely low on the priority list (or may be painful change, since it would require a change to the underlying database structure used by the library, as well as a change to every tv show scraper out there).

Hope this helps.

voochi Wrote:Hi,
I am using Eden beta1 on W7 and the ReFocus 0.9.4.1 skin

I use the thumbnails view. My problem is that I cant see the movie score rating anywhere when using this view. If I press 'i' to bring up movie info, it shows me Genre, Duration, etc, but no movie score.

Is this deliberate or an oversight? For me the score is one of the most important pieces of info when choosing what to watch, much more useful than something trivial like the movie studio. I don't mind having to press 'i' to see it if there is no room on the main screen.

voochi Wrote:Hi,
I am using Eden beta1 on W7 and the ReFocus 0.9.4.1 skin

I use the thumbnails view. My problem is that I cant see the movie score rating anywhere when using this view. If I press 'i' to bring up movie info, it shows me Genre, Duration, etc, but no movie score.

Is this deliberate or an oversight? For me the score is one of the most important pieces of info when choosing what to watch, much more useful than something trivial like the movie studio. I don't mind having to press 'i' to see it if there is no room on the main screen.

canadave Wrote:Hey, quick question. In Slide view in "Movies", if I go to "page left/right" mode, I can't move toward the left, from movies at the beginning of the list (starting with "A") to the movies at the end (starting with "Z"). However, I *can* move that way if I just click left without going into page left/right mode.

Not sure if that's an XBMC bug or a reFocus bug...?

Jeroen Wrote:Now that you mention it, the rating probably got lost when I reworked the movie info screen. I will add it there, and see what I can do about the thumbnails view, but the space is pretty limited there.


What do you mean by page left/right mode? Do you mean using the page up and page down keys?

voochi Wrote:That's great news, thanks for the reply. This skin should be default in Eden, I think it gets the balance between clean looks, simplicity and useability (from a distance) just perfect. Too many skins have tiny little font that you can't read from a distance, and a million bits of info all jumbled over the screen.

But that's just my opinion.