xTV Wrap View Mod using FanArt Backdrops

... dude. You should give XBMC a chance, it might do all the hard work for you. Apparently, as long as your XBMC's up to date, it'll automatically go get the fanart for you. I didn't know this, and spent hours doing it myself. It was quite fun, tbh.

Not too sure about TV fanart, haven't used it myself yet.

I did not know that! is that the stock xbmc or with this mod?

I actually only have the older version of xbmc on my xbox but plan on building a pc version this weekend. was suppose get the rest of my parts yesterday but ups "couldnt find my house" so now i have to wait til Monday

Well i'm just using the latest T3CH build, so yeah - stock, I guess.

Not meaning to jack the thread, but what're the specs you're gonna use for your PC?

Using an up to date version of XBMC.....Fanart can be got with IMDb scraper as long as it has been set to do so in the scrapers options. Same thing with TV Shows, using theTVDb scraper.

Very good to know, im using a very old version on the xbox.
My new one (once my case/ps gets here.. monday.. )

athlon xp 2.4ghz dual core processor 2gig ram asus m2n e sli mother board and gigabyte 7600gs video card, ordered 2 remotes one driverless that acts like a keyboard and a second xbox remote to try soldering it to usb. so one of the two should work!

I have also some probs with the fanart thing it just doesn't show up,named everything right. movie.avi movie.tbn movie-fanart.jpg.
But still nothing,and there is another Prob I have with this.

for example: movie.avi movie.tbn movie-fanart.jpg

I already had the movie and the .tbn for the movie on the xbox hdd,if I try now to put the fanart on it's renaming it by itself and it will show up on the xbox as movie-fana.jpg if I change to fanart.jpg again,it just does not the change,if I copy it new the same,it always renames it fana.jpg

I also had this Prob before when I edited the .tbn Files for the movies,so I just gave the movie "a complete new name" f.e. it was -movie.DVD.2008.english- I renamed it to -movie (2008) ENG- then it worked and doesn't rename it by itself and I could give the .tbn the same name. It was not with all,just some of them I had this Prob,aswell with the Fanart its just some Movies I have this rename Prob,but generally the Fanart is not working at all for any movie!?

19emadness Wrote:I have also some probs with the fanart thing it just doesn't show up,named everything right. movie.avi movie.tbn movie-fanart.jpg.
But still nothing,and there is another Prob I have with this.

for example: movie.avi movie.tbn movie-fanart.jpg

I already had the movie and the .tbn for the movie on the xbox hdd,if I try now to put the fanart on it's renaming it by itself and it will show up on the xbox as movie-fana.jpg if I change to fanart.jpg again,it just does not the change,if I copy it new the same,it always renames it fana.jpg

I also had this Prob before when I edited the .tbn Files for the movies,so I just gave the movie "a complete new name" f.e. it was -movie.DVD.2008.english- I renamed it to -movie (2008) ENG- then it worked and doesn't rename it by itself and I could give the .tbn the same name. It was not with all,just some of them I had this Prob,aswell with the Fanart its just some Movies I have this rename Prob,but generally the Fanart is not working at all for any movie!?

quote: and I tried to get Covers bigger,I edited in CommonViewTypes the "focusedlayout" height and width under "VideoWrapView" but it was not working:confused2:

WTF!? got a wrong cover for one movie so I dwnld the right one put it on xbox gave the right name,but it always shows me the wrong picture (I even already deleted and only puted the new one on) but it just shows me the DELETED one? So I just deleted all the others I already got and they're also still there! After a Restart it's the same,the Pictures are not anymore in the folder or on the xbox but they still show up!? This thing is getting f******* anoying! It renames files it self and there is no way to name it right except give a complete new name,it doesn't take a new cover if u already got one on it,there is no f****** way to get the new one show up!:mad:

Try to do a library cleanup.

And chill.

yeah I should chill! But I'm trying since yesterday to get this things working,make the covers bigger in the "WrapView" and the Fanart! But both is not working:confused2: and then this Probs plus that other stuff wich is not going right makes me just crazy. I don't know what I'm doing wrong?

greetz.

First off, awesome little mod to an already great skin. Is there any way to get this wrap view into library mode (I'm using the latest PC version of XBMC)? I've tried editing the XML file, but I can't seem to get the fanart to show up, even though it clearly shows up when it's not in library mode. Any help would be appreciated.