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Make it like this though:
tvshow-banner.jpg
tvshow-poster.jpg
tvshow-fanart.jpg
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Jezz_X
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been discussed to death on the forums before.
Short answer is when the thumbnail code gets rebuilt better it will be looked into until then your out of luck
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sp10
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2010-02-06, 19:11
Is it possible to have both wide banners and posters recognised by XBMC at the same time. Say folder-wide.jpg and folder-poster.jpg so you could switch between different views or skins that supported either type you would have the alternate wide or poster image there ready?
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sp10
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Yes I agree that the problem is that wide banner/posters are resized to fit the alternative container looking pretty awful. If images for both formats were available ahead of switching then you could switch views or skins and always have a well presented library.
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sp10
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Disappointing, yet there is hope. Have been using XBMC (and XBMP before it) for years and the evolution of this program is astounding so who knows maybe it will happen?
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Not yet. In the future, yes, XBMC will simply download both and display whichever is appropriate (skinners choice). This basically coincides with the video library revamp which is going to take some time yet.
A patch to implement this would be welcome short-term.
Cheers,
Jonathan
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Sounds good, obviously it is only the TV shows that have banners, but when you have more and more shows can become a nightmare.
Thanks for your reply.
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Mark
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Also, as a quick workaround, some skins like Alaska will utilise banner.jpg and landscape.jpg found in the show's folder.
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Cheers, I shall have a look at that and see what skins work. At the moment it is slowly getting harder and harder to choose between skins.
I have most skins installed so I'll go through each skin and list the ones that do this just incase someone else feels the same as me.
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mcborzu
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They way guys do it is so:
You set XBMC to use Posters as default
Then you either download yourself, or run the Logo script to download*, and save Landscape thumbs as landscape.jpg and Banner images as banner.jpg
Then theres some type of skin setting to check which one to use
Of top of my head Night, The Carmichael, Alaska Revisted, Shade, Aeon65 support this way of doing thumbs
*check logo script thread for further explanation
Check out Night - A Skin For XBMC