Large thumbs

[028]

hi all

just had a quick question about thumbs in xbmc, i know the usual method it to create a 128x128 jpeg and rename it to tbn for items in my movie list and games, but was wondering what really is the max resolution for them. i recently switch to an hd setup and found that everything still works even if my thumbs are at 300x300 hell i’ve even pushed it to 400, looks great on a hd tv, although it’s not needed i know everything still looks good at 128 but i figure i’d ask and get the official answer. thanks.


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[Dankula]

as far as i know, all of the thumbs get cached at 128x128, regardless of their size in order to conserve memory. you could throw a six megapixel photo in the folder and it would still get resampled to 128x128 for display. anything bigger than that is a waste of disk space.

[kraqh3d]

thats correct. thumbs are cached at 128x128. if you make the thumb really big in your skin file, the texture is blown up to fill that space, so it'll just look like crap.

[028]

the texture is blown up to fill that space, so it'll just look like crap.

no i dunno if thats right. i have one at 400x400 (just to lazy to go back to change it) and it looks normal i think it's like dankula said it's just a waste of space.

[Dankula]

what he was saying was that it is only cached at 128x128. if you set it to display in a 400x400 space it would be stretched to fit and look like ass.