[WINDOWS] Library Mode Weirdness.. Is it XBMC or my n00bishness?

Thanks for your speedy reply Kricker,
I have been thinking about this all day and had put a plan of action together based on your suggestions.
I don't know if I am seeing bugs here with RC1 or its to do with my setup.

Firstly I had the default select action set to Show information in Video Settings/Library/File lists. With this set pressing on a movie in file mode produced the info with a press in library mode nothing happens. If you change the default action to Choose, play and more work but again Show information does not.

Next I attempted to clear the library using the method you suggest, which I had done previously and the library was staying intact. It wasnt until I disconected the share physically that the library cleared correctly. I removed all but the MKV's from there folders and rescanned and guess what happened those funny bits of art reappeared, are they being held in some sort of cache. When you then press on show info and press get thumb the window opens but the program makes no atempt to show remote thumb.
If you then click on play after doing that you get "This file is no longer available. Would you like to remove it from the library?"
Havnt given up yet but I feel as if I am going round in circles, please bear in mind that none of this happens if the files are on the drives of the machine that XBMC is on, it is only when they are on remote shares.
It would seem that there is nothing in the nfo files that points to file paths anyway. and the other items are just images.

Just repeated above with a complete erase of the Appdata\Roaming\XBMC folder same behaviour as above.

I have just gone through exactly the same procedure and everthing seems to be working ok even with all the nfo's and art in place, will investigate further and reply if any further problems. Dont know what put it right

I meant to reply earlier and suggest you make sure all your scraper add-ons are up to date. I'm glad to see things are in order now.

I'm having the same problems using Ember Media Manager. All fanart is shown correctly in file mode and in library mode, In library mode however, some posters are not picked up correctly as mentioned before. Some have this weird screencap kind of look, others just no poster at all (while poster is always present in movie folder)

In my case it always happens for posters that are in folders with .iso movies.
Al my movies in VIDEO_TS / .mkv format display the poster fine.

I really like ember because it is much more flexible in choosing and maintaining fanart and posters. Also having the poster and fanart in the movie folder is a big + in my opinion. It would be even better if there was an ember like solution build in with XBMC
to avoid all these hick-ups.

I'd really like to see this one fixed. It is a real pain to always switch to file mode, go to movie information, change the thumb, change the thumb back to it's original and then it shows fine in Library mode.

Sometimes however the movie is found twice in Library mode after this operation and you have to perform a clean of your library to have the one without the right poster deleted from the library.

If you use an external source, put smb: in front of your path, that solved things for me.

Exact same issue here... not sure what's going on but it's very annoying.

FYI I'm using a basic ubuntu file server with smb shares.

(2) xbmc live - one virtual, one real
(3) atv2 xbmc machines
(1) xbmc on win7

They are all using the advancedsettings.xml method to share an SQL database.

I use mymovies.dk media manager to generate the [supposedly] xbmc-compatible .nfo files, front and rear covers, etc... This method has worked for me for nearly two years now for keeping my collection sorted and has never been an issue.

I installed the ATV2 boxes a few weeks ago, replacing win7 xbmc running 10.0. Updated all my live boxes and reinstalled on my other win7 box and all are experiencing this issue. All use the same SMB connection paths (win7, atv and live) and can play the movies, listed from the SQL db on the media server, fine...

when not in library mode, it shows everything.

When in library mode, it will always show the movie info (back cover text, etc..) from the nfo file, but sometimes will not show the box cover so I get a screenshot.

Any more ideas I'm willing to try them all. With 2000+ movies, probably 350-500 of them did not show the cover art when rebuilding the sql db from scratch, so it's very annoying having to manually select it.

Strat_87 Wrote:If you use an external source, put smb: in front of your path, that solved things for me.

Thank you. I have been searching on how to fix this for days. I could not figure out why it worked in file view but not library mode. After adding smb: in front of my share path it is now working in library mode. Thank you again!!!