!! ALL DEVS !! Local actor thumbs

currently we only support on thumb per actor, and as such, storing along with the media has no gains in those regards. but we have the flexibility to add if we see fit

fekker Wrote:I'm thinking along the lines that movie from 20 years ago, shouldn't really have the actor image from today with it. (which a central image store would have)

from what I understand spiff import works once, after you have actor thumb cached, it won't cache another thumb of same actor.

Or does import overwrites cached thumb if one exists, spiff?

you are correct

is it based on name alone? i'm just wondering because thetvdb.com has images for actors based on each show, with the actors dressed in character. so if it's based on name alone, you could have an image from a totally different show for an actor. if possible, it'd be better if it was based on movie/tvshow and name.

Hi spiff, I was wondering if it is possible yet to allow the <thumb> tag for an actor to contain a network path for the thumb? The only reason I would prefer this is that it would allow single or multiple images for the same actor (MC for example uses actorid from imdb, or Numeric ID for images from TVDB. This not only allows multiple thumbs for each actor if needed aka tvdb, but also to select a higher quality image, some of the default imdb actor images are awful.

The biggest advantage is that for most instances each thumb would only need to be stored once (Twice if you include xbmc)

eg.
<actor>
<name>Charlize Theron</name>
<role>Mary Embrey</role>
<thumb>smb://HomeNAS/public/Actors/34/nm0000234.jpg</thumb>
</actor>

that should work, and should have worked for a while i thought?

spiff Wrote:that should work, and should have worked for a while i thought?

Thanks for the confirmation.

Just curious on how this works.

If I scan my library and select get actor thumbs in video settings and then export my library will it automatically export the actor thumbs or is this a manual process. If anyone could give some detail it would be great.