Posters, Banners, FanArt, and other Media Artwork XBMC Naming Convention Standards?

ppic · 2010-11-05 21:12

for tvshow part: logo downloader handle all kind of image and using custom naming Wink

for wide season, some skin are using it, but name doesn't change, it replace current.

Maxoo · 2010-11-05 23:59

I think landscape.jpg should got with banner.jpg and poster.jpg (in your first post). Would be easier to understand I think.

hendoben · 2010-11-07 04:18

teegee543 Wrote:Single Movie folder:

Quote:movie.nfo: movie metadata

In my experience(looking at debugs) this doesn't work. You're better of naming the .nfo as you would for multiple movie folders ... [filename].nfo ...

Maxoo · 2010-11-07 16:34

I think it only work if you enable "search with directory name" (or something like that, I use XBMC in french) in the scraper settings.

Fice · 2010-11-07 17:48

Hi,

first of all, I find the idea of defining some naming conventions very important, but I would even go a bit further and suggest a tighter coupling within xbmc and make it easier for scrapers to extend what can be scraped.

First of all, the Scraper Addon-XML contains something similar to:

Code:

<extension point="xbmc.metadata.scraper.movies"

             language="en"

             library="tmdb.xml">

   <nfo>

      <type>Title</type>

      <type>Original Title</type>

   </nfo>

   <media>

      <pictures>

          <type naming="$FILENAME$-fanart">Fanart</type>

      </pictures

      <audio>

          <type name="theme">Theme</type>

      </audio>

      <video>

          <type name="$FILENAME$-trailer">Trailer</type>

      </video>

   </media>

</extension>

As you can see, there is no file ending to the naming convention, as I find it more powerful when you can add all kind of media in there as long as it is of the correct type and supported by xbmc.

XBMC can then add all those scraped information to the database (making it easy to add special information, especially when the new database design is ready) and copy all media that is found/scraped to 'userdata/thumbnails' as it is currently done with fanart. This would make browsing the database much faster if the thumbnails folder is on a flash drive or if the Movies are on a network share, but the thumbnails folder is local.

Now it should be possible for the skinner (or python scripter) to get those information via:

Code:

Listitem.picture(Fanart)

Listitem.audio(Theme)

Listitem.trailer(Trailer)

Listitem.info(Title)

To make this addition really powerful and more user friendly, you can add several scrapers to a source. The Scraper Settings should be extended so that you can disable a specific meta data.
You could for example download all Meta-Info from a german Website, but disable it to download actor information, then add an english scraper that loads the actor information. If there are two scrapers who download the same information, the information form the first scraper is used (if found, of course).

Plugins like CDArt Downloader or Logo Downloader could now be implemented like normal scrapers who have eg:

Code:

<extension point="xbmc.metadata.scraper.movies"

             language="en"

             library="tmdb.xml">

   <media>

      <pictures>

          <type naming="cd-art">CDArt</type>

      </pictures>

   </media>

</extension>

This would make gathering all those information/media much easier and the skinner can support a new type of information/media.

Of course, we still need to have some sort of conventions.

I didn't post this to the "New feature suggestion" forum yet, because I wanted to know what you guys think first, as it would probably require a lot of work to you skinners to port it.

lg
Fice

teegee543 · 2010-11-07 18:26

What's the preferred filename for music CD covers? folder.jpg or cover.jpg

sjobbels · 2010-11-08 16:23

I use folder.jpg

Flomaster · 2010-11-08 19:05

@ the OP

for movies I use poster.jpg and my poster display just fine in Library mode.

-=Jason=-

rudeboyx · 2010-11-08 19:31

teegee543

I see you've updated your first post but under "single movie folder" you've used the same naming structure as "all movies in 1 folder"

they should be exactly.

movie.tbn
movie.nfo
fanrt.jpg

not

(moviename).tbn
(moviename).nfo
(moviename)-fanart.jpg

XBMC knows which film they belong to down to the fact that all these are in the same folder as the movie

teegee543 · 2010-11-09 07:00

rudeboyx, thanks for the feedback. The change was in response to hendoben's post. I'll leave it as rudeboyx's feedback until I get more feedback to the contrary.

Maxoo Fan Posts: 329 Joined: Mar 2010 Reputation: 11 Location: Paris, France	2010-11-05 23:59 Post: #12 I think landscape.jpg should got with banner.jpg and poster.jpg (in your first post). Would be easier to understand I think.
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hendoben Member Posts: 88 Joined: Aug 2010 Reputation: 0	2010-11-07 04:18 Post: #13 teegee543 Wrote:Single Movie folder: Quote:movie.nfo: movie metadata In my experience(looking at debugs) this doesn't work. You're better of naming the .nfo as you would for multiple movie folders ... [filename].nfo ...
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Maxoo Fan Posts: 329 Joined: Mar 2010 Reputation: 11 Location: Paris, France	2010-11-07 16:34 Post: #14 I think it only work if you enable "search with directory name" (or something like that, I use XBMC in french) in the scraper settings.
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teegee543 Junior Member Posts: 15 Joined: Aug 2009 Reputation: 0	2010-11-07 18:26 Post: #16 What's the preferred filename for music CD covers? folder.jpg or cover.jpg
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sjobbels Senior Member Posts: 185 Joined: Jun 2007 Reputation: 0 Location: The Netherlands	2010-11-08 16:23 Post: #17 I use folder.jpg
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teegee543 Junior Member Posts: 15 Joined: Aug 2009 Reputation: 0	2010-11-09 07:00 Post: #20 rudeboyx, thanks for the feedback. The change was in response to hendoben's post. I'll leave it as rudeboyx's feedback until I get more feedback to the contrary.
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