2013-06-27, 21:57
With the new movie sets manager built into Kodi since XBMC Frodo, I have been reading and searching and found no mention of how the artwork will be handled yet.
I have rebuilt my system a few times, and have each and every time had to re-set up the movie sets with the correct images. It can be quite a chore.
(New hard drives, combining movies from different drives ect renders saving a database useless in this case)
XBMC easily imports the sets and movies from the information I have saved in the <movie name>.nfo I have in each folder. The same holds true for all the info in the xml, the poster, fanart and other artwork. This does not hold true for the artwork for movie sets..
When you "Manage Movie" and then "Choose Art" you can select the fanart and poster by browsing your system. Unlike standard posters and other artwork, Kodi currently does not save these images when you do a database export. This leaves this section of Kodi incomplete.
I propose the following standard names be used:
<movie Name>-SetArt.jpg
<movie Name>-SetFanart.jpg
This way, when importing movies new movies into Kodi, the set artwork is also included along with all of the other files.
Yes, the artwork would be slightly redundant, as it would be saved in each movie's folder in the set. This is a small thing considering that it would take over 10,000 of the images to use the same hard drive space as a single movie.
If this has been discussed elsewhere, I apologize. I did search, however searching for "sets" and "images" turns up TONS of irrelevant results!
I have rebuilt my system a few times, and have each and every time had to re-set up the movie sets with the correct images. It can be quite a chore.
(New hard drives, combining movies from different drives ect renders saving a database useless in this case)
XBMC easily imports the sets and movies from the information I have saved in the <movie name>.nfo I have in each folder. The same holds true for all the info in the xml, the poster, fanart and other artwork. This does not hold true for the artwork for movie sets..
When you "Manage Movie" and then "Choose Art" you can select the fanart and poster by browsing your system. Unlike standard posters and other artwork, Kodi currently does not save these images when you do a database export. This leaves this section of Kodi incomplete.
I propose the following standard names be used:
<movie Name>-SetArt.jpg
<movie Name>-SetFanart.jpg
This way, when importing movies new movies into Kodi, the set artwork is also included along with all of the other files.
Yes, the artwork would be slightly redundant, as it would be saved in each movie's folder in the set. This is a small thing considering that it would take over 10,000 of the images to use the same hard drive space as a single movie.
If this has been discussed elsewhere, I apologize. I did search, however searching for "sets" and "images" turns up TONS of irrelevant results!