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natethomas
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I don't understand the point of the '-big.png' extension. Are we suddenly going to be working with more than simply folder.jpg, <moviename>-fanart.jpg, and <moviename>.tbn?
I had really hoped I was done adding more files to me folders.
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On release, Aeon Stark will work just fine with the thumbs you already have.
It seems to (in addition) have some weird filename alteration for a "higher quality" thumb for the info views happening, which will only work for some file types and only in some situations. Stacks, or rars, or zips won't work for instance.
Up to you whether you bother with this. It's certainly not going to become an XBMC standard.
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Jonathan
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Ok so if the majority of my movies is in rar format the info page wont work with the -BIG.png? Is there anyway to fix this because it looks awesome but Im not going to unrar everything
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Jay i think you will find a good percentage of people with rar'd films. Hopefully by the time its released that will be fixed
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heh well guess i just love the look of it and sfv checking
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djh_
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2009-03-12, 04:23
(This post was last modified: 2009-03-12, 04:27 by djh_.)
If you don't have the optional high-def thumbnail then it'll just use the cached version instead, so there's no danger of the info screen "not working" if you don't have the right files. Obviously, though, an upscale from a cached resolution (512px default) to full screen height can look like the devil's arsehole, especially in 1080p.
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Djh thats good about using the cached but will it work from rar'd items? Before it was stated the info page wouldnt work if it was a rar'd movie with the -BIG.png
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Ayala
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why is my arsehole now a topic of conversations, lmao, these threads really are getting outta hand. j/k
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2009-03-16, 13:19
(This post was last modified: 2009-03-16, 18:37 by Louike.)
For everyone that uses the Media Companion (perhaps also in XBMC itself): the TMDB scraper has thumbs with a default vertial size of 750 pixels. simply re-scraping all your movies wil get better thumbs already. (i had 15 and 90kb thumbs now they are 150 to 350kb).
edit: lots of posters come at 1000x1500 too, mediastream doesnt seem to bother resizing them.