[jmarshall]

Yes - it's because you have old/stale links. Nothing we can do about it. You would have gotten the same issue in Eden if you wanted to change the thumb/fanart to something else.

You'll need to refresh each item that doesn't work (likely all of em). Set content to None, clear them out, Set content back to Movies, scrape. You will not lose watched status if you do it by this method.

[negge]

Wait, are you saying I basically need to re-scan my whole library? That's going to be painful.

[mselley]

firsly to say i think this update is great and definitely the way forward.
but i have just had exacly the same issue updated and i cant find 90% of my images as the links are stale? the genaral user is not going to want to redo his whole library of images.
is there a way that it can scape all original hashed images into the new format?

Regards,
Mark

[jmarshall]

No. There may be a way to update the old http:// URLs to the new ones, however. I suggest making a note of the old URLs it's fetching for a particular movie, then refresh the movie to grab the new URLs and see if there's a way to generate them from the old one.

If there is, I'd be happy to incorporate that in the backward compatibility stage.

[mselley]

Hi,

just been looking at a couple and i cant see any way that they could relate.

OLD: 'http://cf1.imgobject.com/backdrops/34e/4bc90944017a3c57fe00334e/2-fast-2-furious-original.jpg'
NEW: 'http://cf2.imgobject.com/t/p/original/1OyOjIufmGBXIcGryCFXpKzEfPr.jpg'

OLD: 'http://cf1.imgobject.com/posters/39e/4bc90951017a3c57fe00339e/2-fast-2-furious-original.jpg'
NEW: 'http://cf2.imgobject.com/t/p/original/3CrNPUulPGbsJIH2ZnLYomGIVrk.jpg'

OLD: 'http://cf1.imgobject.com/backdrops/7d6/4bc957fe017a3c57fe0277d6/500-days-of-summer-original.jpg'
NEW: 'http://cf2.imgobject.com/t/p/original/yYw9cVdRJ4zzwxM2cTDXfT6JI6E.jpg'

OLD: 'http://cf1.imgobject.com/posters/08a/4cab983e5e73d64dcf00008a/500-days-of-summer-original.jpg'
NEW: 'http://cf2.imgobject.com/t/p/original/lUh47eMBKUq1OaBkNY27L3gPS6F.jpg'

I also found that i couldnt select a new fanart for the movie after it had lost them from the update all the remote fanart images stayed blank.(EDIT i can only see the bottom thumb in the list how strange)
I had to "Reload" the movie to get the list of remote thumbs and fanart back?

btw what is imgobject.com? why do all the urls go thought here?

Thanks,
Mark

[mselley]

Hi,

I think the issue with the remote thumbs not showing is because it was looking for the old thumbs on cf1.imgobject.com which dont exist any more.

http://help.themoviedb.org/discussions/p...ge-changes
http://help.themoviedb.org/discussions/p...ges-broken

not sure if there is any way around this?

Thanks,
Mark

[vicbitter]

Jonathan,
Is there are a way of determining if all of the thumbnails (in the MYSQL db) have been downloaded to the local cache? I want to verify that everything is working correctly.

Many thanks

[jmarshall]

mselley: there is no way around it, no. There's no way to change the URLs from the old to the new as far as I can tell, so your only option is refreshing each show (get fanart/thumb alone won't work as it's using the old URLs).

vicbitter: Two steps: 1. Check that everything in the content tables (movies/tvshows etc.) have corresponding entries in the art table. If so, then at least the video database has finished figuring out which images should be associated with each item. This does not, ofcourse, mean that they've been cached locally though. 2. Grab all URLs from the art table in the video database, and check that against the texture table in the Textures database. If they're all there, everything has been cached.

Cheers,
Jonathan

[vicbitter]

Jonathan,
Thanks. Is the artwork download only done in the background? I guess the better question is, can I manually force the artwork download? Or will the background thread continue to run until all of the artwork in the art table has been cached?

Cheers

[jmarshall]

If you're getting artwork updated from an old Eden database, then it only runs in the bgthumbloaders, so will only update the items that you list in the UI.

If you're getting artwork from a fresh scan then the artwork is done in the background and that thread will keep running until all scanned artwork is in.

Cheers,
Jonathan

[vicbitter]

Okay, that explains it.

I have a large database from Eden, so if I set the scraper to none then back to Movie or TV Show for the source with that scan is "the artwork done in the background and will that thread keep running until all scanned artwork is in."?

[jmarshall]

As long as you clean out all the content, then yes, the rescan will trigger everything to be cached - it may well take a while ofcourse - it will keep going after the scanning has completed most likely.

[mselley]

Hi,

Could you explain the process that a user will require to do when updating from eden to the nightly.

To me it looks like they will need to rescrape their whole library if the movies were last scraped before the urls were changed from:

OLD: 'http://cf1.imgobject.com/backdrops/34e/4bc90944017a3c57fe00334e/2-fast-2-furious-original.jpg'
NEW: 'http://cf2.imgobject.com/t/p/original/1OyOjIufmGBXIcGryCFXpKzEfPr.jpg'

The only way i could find to get these was to reload the movies individually.

is it possible for it to automatically reload all the movies that have stale thumb urls?

I didnt have any problems with and of the tv series thumbs?
I am using TVDB for tv series and IMDB for Movies not sure if this makes a difference?

Im am going to have a look through you source to get a better idea of how it all is working.
Could you give me a pointer into where i should start looking. (First time i am properly looking at the source )

Thanks,
Mark

[scudlee]

Just to pile on with a related issue, I've noticed that TV show episodes no longer auto-generate a thumbnail if there's a folder.jpg present in the folder, they just use that instead. This seems wrong to me, since the folder.jpg is meant for the series, not for individual episodes.

[mselley]

Hi,

Sorry to add more questions,

but been having a look and it seems that currently XBMC Eden does not store what url you are currently using for your thumb/fanart.

It just overwrites the .tbn file?

So from your point all you can do is use the first url from the c06 Column(Thumbnail URL)?

As you cannot tell what thumb is currently being used. When upgrading to the new format i think the best option would be to reload all the url lists for all the movies/tv series etc and then chose the first one.
From the scrapers if this is possible without overwriting custom c00 Column (Local Movie Title) and any other user customised columns.

The users will lose thier chosen thumbs anyway so atleast this way it gives us most of the latest urls. Also now that you are storing the chosen art we will not have this problem in the future.

Many Thanks,
Mark