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sorcer1 · 2006-03-21, 17:58

hello,

when the movie's info are stored in the database (myvideos31.db) the field strpictureurl is always empty!

in xbmc the cover is displayed anyway! there were 2 ways :
- perhaps xbmc store the cover when the movie's infos are stored.
or
- perhaps xbmc get the cover with the id of imdb.

my first question is why the strpictureurl is always empty?

i tried to update the strpictureurl but xbmc don't want to show the cover anyway!

my second question is why xbmc won't get the cover from the picture url?

regards.

**spiff** · 2006-03-21, 18:25

- perhaps xbmc get the cover with the id of imdb.

bingo. we intend to change this in the future when we start working on extending / adding video library.

sorcer1 · 2006-03-21, 18:53

ok!

it is possible to get the cover from the field strpictureurl when the field imdbid is empty?
it can be useful to diplay :
- unofficial covers
- personal covers
- covers with another language
- covers with great quality
- ...

i think this is not a big change, but very useful for a lot of people!

**spiff** · 2006-03-21, 19:18

as i said, expect all this to change (most likely to something along the lines you suggest).

however, we are in a feature freeze so any patch implementing changes will be held off until after 2.0 is shipped.

jmarshall · 2006-03-21, 23:59

in the meantime, you can easily change the image - local thumbs (filename.tbn) take priority over imdb covers.

sorcer1 · 2006-03-22, 11:58

ok, thanks for this precisions!

i made a dll (c# .net) to read/write the myvideos31.db and i use it in a tool to modify manually the movie's info!

i can make some modifications to write the thumb, but i want to know if the future version will modify the schema of the db?

thanks!

jmarshall · 2006-03-22, 22:08

i can guarantee the db schema will change. don't let that put you off though - it's unlikely to happen for a month or two.

sorcer1 · 2006-03-24, 14:47

do you think it can be useful if i publish my dll to read/write the myvdeos31.db for windows?

jmarshall · 2006-03-24, 23:46

definitely - please publish the dll and the tool you use (include source code as well if you can - that way if you aren't around in the future others can extend it)

cheers,
jonathan

gglaze · 2006-03-26, 17:32

sorcer1 - good going on the c# dll! i was thinking about doing the exact same thing. have you also created some kind of gui tool to edit info? please publish this somewhere or let me know where i can get it, with source if possible.
thanks!
Cool

sorcer1 · 2006-03-27, 10:42

Quote:definitely - please publish the dll and the tool you use (include source code as well if you can - that way if you aren't around in the future others can extend it)

cheers,
jonathan

i plublished the dll in a new topic here

i'm making an international version of my tool (using the dll) and it will published too!

:d

sorcer1 · 2006-03-28, 13:35

(gglaze @ mar. 26 2006,16:32 Wrote:sorcer1 - good going on the c# dll! i was thinking about doing the exact same thing. have you also created some kind of gui tool to edit info? please publish this somewhere or let me know where i can get it, with source if possible.
thanks!

thank you !
i also created a gui!
you can find it here in an french version, but i'm working on a english version! please be patient! Smile