frodo a 3: Win & ATV2 - thumbnails and fanart via ftp

Haudrauf · 2012-07-20 13:34

Hi,

I have a problem with frodo alpha 3 both on windows 7 and on ATV2.

I imported my old database from my Win7 eden xbmc due to a broken ATV2 (which was the preferred family xbmc with good thumbs, fanart, etc.). The Win7 xbmc was used mainly for testing and importing new media. They both shared a mySQL DB.

Now with frodo I could have the same artwork both on Win7 and ATV2 when I use the mySQL database, so I switched to the unstable branch.

My videos are on a NAS and I am using ftp to access my files.

The artwork is scraped with Ember and is inside the folders of the tv shows and the movies.

Now I have the problem: I can not set thumbs, fanart or banners with Win7 or the ATV2 anymore with frodo!

Maybe it could be an issue with ftp? Should I drop my database and reload it via smb, for example? Does anybody have the same issue? Or am I completely wrong with my assumption?

ATM I cannot post any log, but next week I will be back on my hardware to log it, if neccesary.

Haudrauf · 2012-07-21 08:29

Sorry for bumping, but maybe I have not made clear the problem...

When I want to manually set a thumbnail I can browse (via the ftp-ed source) and click on the jpg-file. But this picture is not set, it is the same icon as before.

Haudrauf · 2012-07-23 09:25

OK,
so I dropped the database and edited my sources.xml and mediasources.xml on both machines (Win7 and ATV2) to smb, and am now scanning again.
Now I am able change the pictures manually... Cool

Maybe frodo really has a prob with ftp and pictures? It seems so, maybe someone can confirm? Huh

With my local conditions (network, NAS and mySQL-DB) smb is muuuch faster than ftp, so the change was a good one, at the bottom line and I will hang on to it. Since I scraped almost all of the files with Ember the new scrape is acceptable, because it is quite fast and I have all the pictures already. Smile

classicspam · 2012-07-23 19:27

in advancedsettings.xml use the following:

<ftp>
<remotethumbs>true</remotethumbs>
</ftp>

Haudrauf · 2012-07-23 21:02

Hi classicspam,
thank you! This was helpful!

joseavarela · 2012-12-17 18:14

Hi, try these , http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Adv...ttings.xml theres no exist that file, you have to create.

Thank you very much its working for me

Haudrauf Junior Member Posts: 43 Joined: Apr 2011 Reputation: 0 Location: Germany	2012-07-21 08:29 Post: #2 Sorry for bumping, but maybe I have not made clear the problem... When I want to manually set a thumbnail I can browse (via the ftp-ed source) and click on the jpg-file. But this picture is not set, it is the same icon as before.
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classicspam Junior Member Posts: 27 Joined: Dec 2008 Reputation: 0	2012-07-23 19:27 Post: #4 in advancedsettings.xml use the following: <ftp> <remotethumbs>true</remotethumbs> </ftp>
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Haudrauf Junior Member Posts: 43 Joined: Apr 2011 Reputation: 0 Location: Germany	2012-07-23 21:02 Post: #5 Hi classicspam, thank you! This was helpful!
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joseavarela Junior Member Posts: 1 Joined: Dec 2012 Reputation: 0	2012-12-17 18:14 Post: #6 Hi, try these , http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Adv...ttings.xml theres no exist that file, you have to create. Thank you very much its working for me (This post was last modified: 2012-12-17 18:15 by joseavarela.)
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