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Im waiting since the beginning of AD for this feature to come. ...but hope dies last ...
What you can try / i do atm: disable everything in AD what you dont need because you grabbed it allready n xbmc is recognizing it (thumbs, poster, fanarts, extrafanarts) and everything you dont want (in my case ex. Banner).
So just enable disc, logo n clearart. And enable use local files. Then ad uses your existing ones and only downloads them if they dont exist on your system (in my case a few ones that are not aviable in my native language).
But dont enable extrafanarts! When you do ad is ALWAYS downloading because of the filenames (ad doesnt name them fanart1, fanart2 - fanartX but gives them nummerous names).
Maybe with gotham that feature comes because with gotham the ybmc team introduced nfo only scrappers. Lets pray!
Btw which manager you using? I use ember media manager (has just a few features missing). Also i wanna try mediaelch soon.
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Hi!
I absolutely love this addon and I think it is one of the better things to have happened to XBMC.
I just have two issues with AD :
1) Fanart.tv has recently launched it's Season Poster section (finally hq pictures), yet these don't seem to appear in AD. Is this going to be fixed or is it an issue on my side?
2) I've read the first post and I know file-naming is still subject to change but if I want to assign season posters manually (because I don't want AD to download everything all over again; just fix some season posters that are now available), how should I name my files. To be precise, do I add a leading "0" or not? I've exported my library recently and then downloaded the posters again (because XBMC for some strange reason did not import them...) so I don't know which is the "correct" naming convention.
Thanks in advance!
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I posted this in the Aeon forum but perhaps it's more appropriate here:
I have a fresh install of XBMCBuntu and just loaded up the MQ5 skin on Gotham RC1. I've been using AQ5 on my other HTPC, so I'd already downloaded all the fanart for the view I like, and all that. But when I go into those same views on this HTPC, the clearart/posters/logos only show up for a few of my TV shows, not nearly all of them. I can set them manually through the contextual menu, but it'd be a total pain having to go through each kind of art for every show. Running the artwork downloader does NOT help for some reason. When I look at the corresponding folders on my source NAS, all the art is there. What gives!?
Thanks!
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2014-05-04, 03:49
(This post was last modified: 2014-05-08, 10:15 by DanCooper.)
Why the ArtworkDownloader does not use the same filenames as the XBMC export if "recognize local files" is activated?
The correct file name would be:
Single movie in separate folder:
.\Avatar\Avatar.mkv
.\Avatar\Avatar-poster.jpg
.\Avatar\Avatar-fanart.jpg
.\Avatar\Avatar-banner.jpg (not officially supported, but the only useful variant)
.\Avatar\landscape.jpg
.\Avatar\logo.png
.\Avatar\clearart.png
.\Avatar\disc.png
Multi-disc movie in separate folder:
.\Avatar\Avatar DVD1.mkv
.\Avatar\Avatar DVD2.mkv
.\Avatar\Avatar-poster.jpg
.\Avatar\Avatar-fanart.jpg
.\Avatar\Avatar-banner.jpg (not officially supported, but the only useful variant)
.\Avatar\landscape.jpg
.\Avatar\logo.png
.\Avatar\clearart.png
.\Avatar\disc.png
VIDEO_TS or BDMV folder in separate movie folder:
.\Avatar\VIDEO_TS\* OR .\Avatar\BDMV\*
.\Avatar\poster.jpg
.\Avatar\fanart.jpg
.\Avatar\banner.jpg
.\Avatar\landscape.jpg
.\Avatar\logo.png
.\Avatar\clearart.png
.\Avatar\disc.png
VIDEO_TS files without VIDEO_TS folder:
.\Avatar\VIDEO_TS.IFO
.\Avatar\poster.jpg
.\Avatar\fanart.jpg
.\Avatar\banner.jpg
.\Avatar\landscape.jpg
.\Avatar\logo.png
.\Avatar\clearart.png
.\Avatar\disc.png
In addition, a setting would be useful which protects VIDEO_TS and BDMV directory structures if local files is activated. This means that no images and folders within the VIDEO_TS and BDMV folders are stored (concerns .actors, extrathumbs and extrafanarts).
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why didn't XBMC follow the convention that AD has used for years is the better question.
I added this a year before XBMC ever used those files.
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This will change for my Gotham release. It's already implemented but not tested.
So it will ask if it should rename all current files and update database accordingly and from then on only download in the "xbmc format".
It should also skip online searching better.
Since i'll be going to LinuxTag i won't have time for early release.