[Adam]

Just did a global search and replace "images.thetvdb.com" with "thetvdb.com" in C:\Program Files\XBMC\system\scrapers\video\tvdb.xml and it worked a treat.

I'm running XBMC 9.04.1 r20672 on my WinXP HTPC.

Log file said:
ERROR: PICTURE::DoCreateThumbnail: Unable to create thumbfile special://masterprofile/Thumbnails/Video/2/2a9f9900.tbn from image http://images.thetvdb.com/banners/posters/79501-2.jpg

thetvdb.com HTML file said:
<a href="banners/graphical/78050-g4.jpg" target="_blank">View Full Size</a>

which lead to "http://thetvdb.com/banners/graphical/78050-g4.jpg"

tvdb.xml had
&lt;thumb&gt;http://images.thetvdb.com/banners/\1&lt;/thumb&gt;
everywhere.

So I changed them all to
&lt;thumb&gt;http://thetvdb.com/banners/\1&lt;/thumb&gt;
and it worked a treat!

[Adam]

Had this problem for a few days, just fixed it, you need to edit the XML file for the TheTVDB.com scraper. essentially open it in notepad and everywhere the file says "images.thetvdb.com" change to "thetvdb.com", they restructured their domain or something and the original link doesnt work. I did this and it fixed the entire problem for me. Hope it works for you.

Oh. Yeah. That's what I meant.

[outleradam]

I had to find/replace all entries from images.thetvdb.com to thetvdb.com /usr/share/xbmc/system/scrapers/video/tvdb.xml and delete /home/xbmc/.xbmc/userdata/Database/MyVideos34.db

[MEvil]

In the current SVN version these changes are already in the tvdb.xml file. But there is still a problem with the season posters. The URL to the posters is e.g. http://www.thetvdb.com/banners/seasons/80379-2.jpg and I think the scraper uses a different path, but I don't quite get it.

[DataFran]

I had this problem for a few shows, "Community", "Dollhouse", "Stargate Universe". I fixed it by updating to the latest SVN and then removing the Source for the TV shows and re-adding it. The scraper re-scraped everything and it was all there. Try that.

[MEvil]

I added today the first episode of the second season of Big Bang Theory, but it didn't get the season poster, which is obviously there in the TVDB.
Regardless of that, I removed the whole Big Bang Theory serie and readded it. It scraped everything, except the season poster
I've the current SVN Build.

The same with Smallville and How I met your Mother. This has always worked. Just recently stopped working.

[Eoghlear]

I have got a similar problem with my scraper on my ASRock ion with full ubuntu. It does not update any of the following shows (Dexter & Californication: no poster, thumbs etc). On my macbook, xbmc does it like it should. Both systems are on the same svn 24207. What could be wrong?

[spiff]

seriously. i want to put a one strike rule on requesting help without posting logs for anyone with > 1 post.

[MEvil]

Seems like the "grumpy" in your title is really not just for show

Of course you're right, so here is the log (I can't find anything about season thumbs in there ...): http://pastebin.com/m66ecd72
To get this log, I removed the serie Big Bang Theory completly and made again a scan on the source to get it all back.

Maybe this information is also useful:
The folder tree is like this:
- The Big Bang Theory
--- Season 1
----- Episode 1
--- Season 2
----- Episode 1
--- fanart.jpg
--- folder.jpg
--- poster.jpg

As you can see, I have fanart, folder & poster for the serie itself as files. But NOT for the seasons or single episodes. Maybe he doesn't look for it, cos I have these?!? But this has worked before. So this would be a new behaviour.

Regards,
Steffen

[spiff]

thanks

the problem is actually on the backend side. when you request info in some lang, only the season thumbs registered with that lang is returned to us. and none is listed in german it seems

[MEvil]

Fun thing is: I just changed the language at my second "remove-all-and-add-again" test. Also my series Smallville and How I met your mother are lang=en and didn't work. So this can't be the reason

[moonshadow]

i use 9.11 xbmc but i can't download picture for my tv shows, for the movies work excellent but tv shows don't work

plz help

[fillidill]

i use 9.11 xbmc but i can't download picture for my tv shows, for the movies work excellent but tv shows don't work

plz help

I have the exact same problem. I have version XBMC_for_Windows-9.04.1-repack2 though. It's only tv-shows that seems to be the problem. It's trying to download but just ends up with a blanc "Remote thumb". I have in the past made the 'fix' and it used to work flawlessly.

[moonshadow]

i fix my problem, my folder with series have season 1-5 and that it's my problem

now i have : "Chuck > season 1 > chuck s01e01" and now i have posters and info...

[MEvil]

My humble apology: it seems my test-cases were wrong. I scraped again The Big Bang Theory with language en and now it worked. I also removed How I met your Mother completely and readded it and the season thumb also appeared. So either the service itself fixed a bug between my test-cases or I thought I tested Big Bang Theory with lang=en after the SVN update, but in fact I tested it before. Dunno.

Fact is: everything works now!