2011-06-16, 17:55
First off: great job on the skin, I absolutely love it!
I have quite a lot of PCs running XBMC, three locally and two externally. One of the PCs is the "master" XBMC, which updates databases and sends them to a FTP-server for the other PCs to fetch. I use this method so that if I make a change on the master, the others automatically adapt to the database-changes.
With the release of Rapier 4, I finally updated XBMC to 10.1 but stumbled across some issues with thumbnails. Before upgrading to XBMC10.1/Rapier4 the "slaves" used to auto-download the new thumbnail/fanart when the item was moused over. (slaves only have the database files, and look for the missing <moviename>.tbn and <moviename>-fanart.jpg files if I'm not mistaken)
I'm not sure if this is working properly in version 4. The slaves automatically grab the correct fanart for all movies/tv-shows, but doesnt grab any movieposters, tvseries-posters, season-posters or episode-thumbs. However... When I open the "tv-show information" or "movie information" dialog, it manages to display the correct thumbnail. Also when I play a movie or episode, it scrapes the image from the mediaserver and displays it in the list.
If I access "Videos"->"Files" and browse my movies/tv-shows there however, it autoscrapes the thumbnails as normal, and they are visible in the "Movies" and "Tv-shows" lists.
Is there something I'm not understanding, or is it a bug in the skin?
Thank you very much!
TL;DR: .tbn-thumbnails don't get scraped from mediaserver in "Movies" and "Tv-shows", but they do in "Videos"->"Files" - how come?
I have quite a lot of PCs running XBMC, three locally and two externally. One of the PCs is the "master" XBMC, which updates databases and sends them to a FTP-server for the other PCs to fetch. I use this method so that if I make a change on the master, the others automatically adapt to the database-changes.
With the release of Rapier 4, I finally updated XBMC to 10.1 but stumbled across some issues with thumbnails. Before upgrading to XBMC10.1/Rapier4 the "slaves" used to auto-download the new thumbnail/fanart when the item was moused over. (slaves only have the database files, and look for the missing <moviename>.tbn and <moviename>-fanart.jpg files if I'm not mistaken)
I'm not sure if this is working properly in version 4. The slaves automatically grab the correct fanart for all movies/tv-shows, but doesnt grab any movieposters, tvseries-posters, season-posters or episode-thumbs. However... When I open the "tv-show information" or "movie information" dialog, it manages to display the correct thumbnail. Also when I play a movie or episode, it scrapes the image from the mediaserver and displays it in the list.
If I access "Videos"->"Files" and browse my movies/tv-shows there however, it autoscrapes the thumbnails as normal, and they are visible in the "Movies" and "Tv-shows" lists.
Is there something I'm not understanding, or is it a bug in the skin?
Thank you very much!
TL;DR: .tbn-thumbnails don't get scraped from mediaserver in "Movies" and "Tv-shows", but they do in "Videos"->"Files" - how come?