Windows Poster.jpg not showing in TV Shows

Anime_Fan_2612 · 2012-07-23 22:43

Hello, I am new member to these forums and the XBMC community Smile

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I have XBMC v11 eden installed on Windows 7 64bit, currently using the Neon Skin and have also tried Aeon Nox, Night - Eden skins which I still have this problem.

All other artwork is showing up fine under TV shows such as the Banner, Artwork, logos etc but when I use the Posters view or coverflow style views the Banner.jpg is displayed instead of the poster for all shows in my library.

I took a screenshot...

http://s11.postimage.org/t8msapy4x/screenshot000.jpg

I have re-installed XBMC but hasn't fixed the problem, Have re-scanned TVDB to download all artwork but hasn't changed. I checked the directory and Poster.jpg/banner.jpg etc are present in the TV shows folder. I and found an option to use poster.jpg in the Settings menu but that didn't help ethier Sad

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Anyone on this forum could help me find a solution to this problem I would most appreicate it, Thank you Smile

Anime_Fan_2612 · 2012-07-23 23:44

Anyone willing to help? Undecided

**jmarshall** · 2012-07-24 00:46

1 hour and 1 minute. I believe this might be a new impatience record.

XBMC does not read poster.jpg or banner.jpg. Your skin might, but that's nothing XBMC knows anything about.

**Ned Scott** · 2012-07-24 01:07

There are typically two settings you'll want to set for this. One might be in

Settings -> Skin

(it's there for the default skin, but I don't know about others)

The other is in the scraper that downloads the image:

Add-on:The_TVDB#Scraper_settings

You'll want both set on poster or banner for whichever you want. You might have to refresh existing entries, either each one can be refreshed at a time, or remove the source and re-add it to have everything rescraped.

Anime_Fan_2612 · 2012-07-24 02:51

Thanx for the reply Smile

Ok I have reverted back to the default skin, under System Stetting > Skin I have enabled "Use posters instead of Banners for TV Shows" and under the settings for "The TVDB" I have "Prefer Posters" Enabled.

Still not showing Posters Confused

Ahh after some messing around I found that right clicking on a TV source you have the option of choosing thumb nail Blush

. It solves my problem but I have to change the thumbnail manually, a minor inconvenience.

Thx for the reply, Loving XBMC software alot wish I had discovered it sooner Tongue

Hopefully I will set up a HTPC soon for my HDTV Big Grin

Keep u p the great work XBMC Team Nod

**jmarshall** · 2012-07-24 02:59

Again, local files named poster.jpg and banner.jpg are not read at all by XBMC. folder.jpg is read by XBMC, so use that instead.

**Ned Scott** · 2012-07-24 03:45

Ah, didn't read the first time that there were pre- existing images (don't know how I missed that).

Anime_Fan_2612 · 2012-07-24 04:08

(2012-07-24 02:59)jmarshall Wrote: Again, local files named poster.jpg and banner.jpg are not read at all by XBMC. folder.jpg is read by XBMC, so use that instead.

Yeah I realise this now Confused

I have to search theTVDB website for Posters and save them in the tv shows directory renaming it to "folder", got it to work.

Anime_Fan_2612 Junior Member Posts: 7 Joined: Jul 2012 Reputation: 0	2012-07-23 23:44 Post: #2 Anyone willing to help?
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Ned Scott Team-XBMC Wiki Guy Posts: 11,954 Joined: Jan 2011 Reputation: 131 Location: Arizona, USA	2012-07-24 03:45 Post: #7 Ah, didn't read the first time that there were pre- existing images (don't know how I missed that). You can make easy links to the XBMC wiki using double brackets around words: [[debug log]] = debug log, [[Add-on:YouTube]] = Add-on:YouTube, [[Adding videos to the library]] = Adding videos to the library, [[userdata]] = userdata, etc
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Anime_Fan_2612 Junior Member Posts: 7 Joined: Jul 2012 Reputation: 0	2012-07-24 04:08 Post: #8 (2012-07-24 02:59)jmarshall Wrote: Again, local files named poster.jpg and banner.jpg are not read at all by XBMC. folder.jpg is read by XBMC, so use that instead. Yeah I realise this now I have to search theTVDB website for Posters and save them in the tv shows directory renaming it to "folder", got it to work.
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