[Release] Artwork Organizer Script

Been trying to use this add on with no success. When it runs it just create 0 kb images of the Series. Since I had already had downloaded images for my movies I don't know if the problem resides just on Series or on movies too.

Different from other users the 0kb files that it creates are .jpg files (poster.jpg, banner.jpg and fanart.jpg).

I'm using Pre-Eden Beta 3 with Neon MQ 3

Thanks

hmmm... are you sure you're in the right thread?

maybe you mean the Artwork Downloader Script?

OK. I was browsing both threads so I posted my message in the wrong one.

Actually, since I'm running both add ons together I don't know if the problem is in the downloader or the organizer. :confused2: But I'll try the Downloader thread first.

Regards

Hello Ronie,

I use your script for customizing homebackground of movies, tvshows, ... using a folder as background in skin settings.

Now, i should want to use smartplylist of movies as custom menu, one for "Parents Movies" and one for "Kids Movies"

.. and so, it will be great, if in your script, there will be an option to separate/group movies fanart according the playlists.

With this feature, when i am on "Parents Movies" in home, only fan arts of theses movies are displayed in background, .... and only Fanart of kids movies are displayed when on "Kids Movies" menu ...

Do you think it is something you can do in a future release ?

Thank you !!!

mardup Wrote:Hello Ronie,

I use your script for customizing homebackground of movies, tvshows, ... using a folder as background in skin settings.

Now, i should want to use smartplylist of movies as custom menu, one for "Parents Movies" and one for "Kids Movies"

.. and so, it will be great, if in your script, there will be an option to separate/group movies fanart according the playlists.

With this feature, when i am on "Parents Movies" in home, only fan arts of theses movies are displayed in background, .... and only Fanart of kids movies are displayed when on "Kids Movies" menu ...

Do you think it is something you can do in a future release ?

Thank you !!!

I've asked this too, last time I asked this was impossible. If I'm not misstaken, it had something to do with it being impossible to determine the share/folder on which the movies/tvshows are located (assuming you have your media seperated like that). Still hoping this will change

i'm sure it can be done in some way, but i have no time to look into it.

ronie Wrote:ok, misunderstood your question.

i think it should be possible, but i'm not interested in adding it.

if you're looking for speed improvements, enable dds compressin in advanced settings.xml (if you haven't already done so)
and look into if it's possible to have xbmc cache your fanart to your ssd drive.

First of all, apologies for bumping an old post like this

I just want to understand something about dds fanart. I've enabled it, along with dirty regions and some d3d9ex setting. It makes one hell of a difference (all those settings combined) on my E350 fusion based htpc, so hooray to that ... but ...

I now have a .dds and a .tbn file for EVERY fanart/thumbnail/poster/etc. This causes a massive growth in files. I've noticed that for every new image, a .tbn is created first and after I've seen the .tbn in xbmc, it creates a .dds on the side. So when xbmc accesses the .tbn it creates the .dds. Removing the .tbn causes the fanart to disappear so it looks like both are needed.
(I've also tried removing the useddsfanart setting, and then xbmc was jerky again, so they are being used somehow I think).

BUT

The artwork organizer script ONLY copies .dds fanart and my multimage homescreen work just fine with just those files. I just don't understand how it works.

Can anyone enlighten me?

Raytestrak Wrote:I now have a .dds and a .tbn file for EVERY fanart/thumbnail/poster/etc. This causes a massive growth in files. I've noticed that for every new image, a .tbn is created first and after I've seen the .tbn in xbmc, it creates a .dds on the side. So when xbmc accesses the .tbn it creates the .dds. Removing the .tbn causes the fanart to disappear so it looks like both are needed.

no clue why that's happening.
xbmc really needs only one.
once a .dds version is created, it should use it one instead of the .tbn.

Raytestrak Wrote:The artwork organizer script ONLY copies .dds fanart and my multimage homescreen work just fine with just those files. I just don't understand how it works.

the script does basically the same, if a .dds file exists it will copy that one,
else it will copy the .tbn one.

ronie Wrote:no clue why that's happening.
xbmc really needs only one.
once a .dds version is created, it should use it one instead of the .tbn.

I thought so too, but when I remove the ,tbn, I lose my fanart. And when I re-download fanart, it recreates the .tbn. When I add a new movie, it first downloads a .tbn and creates the .dds when xbmc loads the .tbn.

If I remove the <useddsfanart>true</useddsfanart> from my advancedsettings.xml, the performance drops instantly, so it seems to be using it.

Thanks for the info, I'll try some more stuff out.

Edit:

I've tried some stuff out

I don't know if it's suppose to work like this or that I have a quirky set-up. But ... If I remove a .tbn file, I lose the fanart. XBMC will generate a new .tbn and the fanart is back. The funny thing is: when I open the .tbn, it's (or it can be) a different image than it was before, but the fanart in xbmc is still the same. To me that's proof that the .dds is loadded even though both files are present and I loose fanart when I remove the .tbn.

xbmc checks the presence of a .dds file when accessing the the image, so it tries to load the .tbn, sees a .dds with the same name and loads that instead.

Found a wiki article that supports this:

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=ThumbnailCache

Only strange thing is that when I export my video library, it's exports .tbn files only (but that also kinda fits my above hypothesis).

Since this week this addon has stopped working for me, i seriously don't know why tbh. When I start the script i see it trying to copy the files but it goes so fast that I instantly receive an error message "script failed"

Can anybody see what is going wrong here? Wasn't this script updated this week? I tried to rollback but the option was grayed out so i tried to uninstall it and install it agian but same problem persists

http://pastebin.com/0eKYy97C