Folder thumbnails from .tbn files
#1
Hello

I have this structure:
folder_name/video_name/video_name.mpg
folder_name/video_name.tbn
XBMC doesn't display video_name.tbn for folder "video_name"

but If I have this structure:
folder_name/video_name/video_name.mpg
folder_name/video_name/folder.jpg
XBMC will display folder.jpg for folder "video_name"

I'm under Eden Live installed on hdd and updated to nightly 2:11.9.7~git201210152028~937ace2-1~ppa1~oneiric.

I have to mention, if I switch back to stable, it will work with both, folder.jpg and video_name.tbn. I have cleaned database (all including Texture#.db), cahed thumbnails etc.

Is this a transitory issue, or this is the future way to go in Frodo? If second is the truth then is a lot a work to do... or I will think a script to convert this automatically...
Here are some threads that advised not to use .tbn anymore, is this the new politics?

Anybody some Ideas?

RESPECT
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#2
sorry for bumping..

I want to rephrase..

I have read the wiki but I'm still confuse.
Is somewhere, on this forum, a thread opened by developers, where new features for thumbnails management are added and improved in unstable releases Huh
I would like to read it!

How to assign a thumbnail to a folder?

Given data:
"OurFolder" = The folder I want to assign a thumbnail.
"ParentDirectory" = just a folder
"folder.jpg" = an image
"OurFolder.tbn" = an old style (I thinkUndecided) image (could it be anything .jpg, .png etc renamed to .tbn)

In older releases of Xbmc, were at least two ways to assign a thumbnail to a folder.
1.Putting a "folder.jpg" image inside folder "OurFolder".
2. "OurFolder" and "OurFolder.tbn" placed inside same directory "ParentDirectory".

The second not working anymore in latest nightly builds of Xbmc. It is a temporary fact or it will be permanentHuh
I have all my thumbs in "*.tbn". For me is better that way than "folder.jpg".

RESPECT

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#3
OurFolder.tbn no longer works. This is permanent.
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#4
Yep! I'm on Frodo 12.2 and following doesn't work, which used to work well in Dharma (10.0)!

FolderName\
FolderName.tbn

Following works:
FolderName\
FolderName\folder.jpg

FileName.avi
FileName.tbn

Will have to script to change everything Smile
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#5
Yeah, it's a pain! And this seems to be the way moving forward including Frodo! You may use following batch file!

@echo off
for /f "usebackq delims=|" %%d in (`dir /b /s /ad`) do (
if exist "%%d.tbn" (
copy "%%d.tbn" "%%d\folder.jpg"
)
)

I could have done that in Unix too Smile
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