[dukedevil0]

Is there any way to use the fanart files from individual movies or tv shows in my library as the home screen backdrops? Without manually copying these fanart files into a separate folder?

For example, if I hover over "Movies" it would cycle through the fanart of actual movies on my hard drive
Similarly, hover over "TV Shows" and it would cycle through fanart of actual TV shows on my hard drive

I wouldn't want some random movie or TV show to show up as a backdrop unless I'm able to watch it!

If the skin/xbmc were able to pull these files from the media library folders then it would be automated when the library changes if you delete/add a movie or tv show.

Examples of file structure is this:
C:\HTPC\Movies\The Fighter (2010)\
C:\HTPC\TV Shows\Dexter\Season 1\

If I set C:\HTPC\Movies\ as the backdrop source for slideshow, wouldn't it pull the poster.jpg and other images too?

Any ideas?

[Warstomper]

You could use a BAT script to do this. (and let a Windows task run it every once in a while. Might need an XBMC reboot for the new images to show up tho)

Mine is not pretty but it works great for my movies.

Just change the folder names to what you use

Code:

set /a counter=1

del "D:\Downloads\Completed\Movies\Images\*.*" /q

setlocal ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION

FOR /R "D:\Downloads\Completed\Movies" %%a IN (.) DO (

COPY "%%a\fanart.jpg" "D:\Downloads\Completed\Movies\Images"
REN "D:\Downloads\Completed\Movies\Images\Fanart.jpg" !counter!.jpg
set /a counter += 1
)

endlocal

Hope this helps!