Add local info/artwork for movie sets.

(2012-08-06 14:01)isamu.dragon Wrote:  But I assume that alot of people that use sets have a folder for individual sets.

Not me. I'm not going to locate them in set folders.
Movie x can suddenly have a sequel y and that would mean you would have te relocate those movies.

So we still have no way to instruct the scraper which local thumbnail or fanart file to use for movie sets?

Just bumped into the same problem... The cleanest way to do that that I can think of would be including fanart and thumb parameters into NFOs like this:
With paths defaulting to moviefilename_movieset_fanart.jpg and moviefilename_movieset_thumb.jpg, wherever the movie file is located, for any member of the set, not necessarily the first -- whichever ones are present are to be taken as the default, and should multiple ones be present, they can be just selected through the normal image selection interface.

It would be easier if the scraper(s) simply used the following, in ascending order of precedence:

1. "folder.jpg" (for the movie set thumbnail) and "folder-fanart.jpg" (for the movie set fan art)
2. "Set_<collection name>_1.jpg" (thumbnail) and "Set_<collection name>_1-fanart.jpg" (fan art)

or any combination of 1 & 2, eg. "folder.jpg" and "Set_<collection name>_1-fanart.jpg"

And finally...

3. From the NFO (though this then requires each movie NFO to reference the same thumbnail/fanart, which is redundant information)

I really hope there will be a solution to this, as it's a royal PITA having to "fix" the box sets thumbnails and fan art each time.

(2012-10-02 12:24)MilhouseVH Wrote:  It would be easier if the scraper(s) simply used the following, in ascending order of precedence:

1. "folder.jpg" (for the movie set thumbnail) and "folder-fanart.jpg" (for the movie set fan art)
2. "Set_<collection name>_1.jpg" (thumbnail) and "Set_<collection name>_1-fanart.jpg" (fan art)

or any combination of 1 & 2, eg. "folder.jpg" and "Set_<collection name>_1-fanart.jpg"

That's... not quite going to work. Example use case: All my movies are in the same directory, which contains multiple sets. Some set names contain characters illegal for use in filenames. This way I can't use either of those two.

(2012-10-02 12:24)MilhouseVH Wrote:  3. From the NFO (though this then requires each movie NFO to reference the same thumbnail/fanart, which is redundant information)

Why 'each'? One member of a set containing those references should be quite sufficient.

So does Frodo introduce a method to automatically assign thumbnails and fanart to sets, or is this still "broken" (it will choose a random thumbnail/fanart that then needs to be manually fixed). Surely there must be an automated solution that would work for the majority of users.

No not possible

(2012-11-23 19:43)Martijn Wrote:  No not possible

Honestly? It seems that box set scraper support is simply partially implemented, and with no thought for fanart at all.

Documentation has in the past mentioned "Set_<collection name>_1.jpg" for automatic boxset thumbnail selection, although this didn't really work, so is it really not possible to fix this feature and also add similar support for automatic box set fanart selection (eg. Set_<collection name>_1-fanart.jpg although a better naming convention could I'm sure be found)? Granted it's not a perfect solution for 100% of users, but it would certainly be a whole lot better than what we currently have which doesn't really work at all, leaving users the very tedious task of manually fixing boxset thumbnails and now in Frodo, also fanart (since this couldn't be changed in previous versions, but now it can and also needs to be fixed).

I'm not trying to be antagonistic, I just find it hard to believe this is "not possible".

The moviesets addon in passion-xbmc repository is actually deprecated. the addon fulfilled the function of creating sets and assign artworks, add and delete movies ...
How hard would adapt it to work with frodo?

(2012-11-24 13:52)narvatu Wrote:  The moviesets addon in passion-xbmc repository is actually deprecated. the addon fulfilled the function of creating sets and assign artworks, add and delete movies ...
How hard would adapt it to work with frodo?

Although that isn't really what I'm asking for here - I'm talking about sets that the user has already curated with NFOs, if you want to manually maintain sets using a seperate add-on that would require a separate discussion (consider that if you were to wipe your database after manually creating your sets and re-import, you'd have to manually fix all your sets again as any artwork you assigned to your sets would be ignored).

The IMDB scraper (which is the one I use for movies) is supposed to have set functionality (based on the <set> tag in NFO's), it just needs to be made to work in a sane way (ie. automatic selection of set thumbnails and set fanart). Manually assigning artwork is already handled by Frodo but it really shouldn't be necessary as this should be a function of the scraper which is already smart enough to recognise sets, but fails at the artwork stage.