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HackerHelpDesk
2008-07-31, 01:31
Is there a post or site that lists all fanart and backdrops? I would like to see a place where everyone can post new and previously released ones. Any ideas?
thetvdb.com has some for TV Shows.
A while back someone mentioned the possibility of having movie fanart there but haven't heard anything since.
I'm halfway through creating a movie fanart site. It should be up within a day. Another user was creating a site for backdrops in other sections. My new site aims to allow easy scraping for movie fanart.
I'm halfway through creating a movie fanart site. It should be up within a day. Another user was creating a site for backdrops in other sections. My new site aims to allow easy scraping for movie fanart.
This is very cool :cool: . Looking forward to it.
FourTwentySmilz
2008-07-31, 09:01
Has anyone mentioned a "FanArt Section" to Martomo and the guys who run XBMC BlackMarket? Seems to me, FanArt would fit in over there , I mean......It's the one stop place for great XBMC stuff. I've been extreamly lax on time for the past couple months....just now finding a lil freedom, but will be making more themes to put there.
Have at trying to break it:
http://moviebackdrops.com/
I'm not entirely happy with how it turned out mainly because my design required IFRAMES, but it should be functional. I'll most likely rework it once there's a decent amount of images in there. If you run across any bugs, let me know. I'll get a forum set up for it on my site but until then just send me a PM if you find a way of breaking it.
The API is pretty simple. It's all based off IMDB's movie ids, so you just use that to form a link: http://moviebackdrops.com/backdrops/tt0443701/. That will just be a list of the fan art for the movie, tab-delimited to include the thumb.
added to imdb scraper, patch is available here (http://xbmc.org/trac/ticket/4404) until svn gets back in order if you want to play with it
digitalhigh
2008-07-31, 13:54
Have at trying to break it:
http://moviebackdrops.com/
I'm not entirely happy with how it turned out mainly because my design required IFRAMES, but it should be functional. I'll most likely rework it once there's a decent amount of images in there. If you run across any bugs, let me know. I'll get a forum set up for it on my site but until then just send me a PM if you find a way of breaking it.
The API is pretty simple. It's all based off IMDB's movie ids, so you just use that to form a link: http://moviebackdrops.com/backdrops/tt0443701/. That will just be a list of the fan art for the movie, tab-delimited to include the thumb.
:O
170+ images to upload now. Any chance you could gimme a bar that lets me search by movie title? Otherwise, I've got quite a bit of work to upload them all...
Otherwise, if you've got time, here's the link to the ones I've got so far:
http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=35392
feel free to upload any movies fanart from Meedio fanart thread (http://www.meedios.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2454).
- They are already named as IMDBID.jpg so they should fit nicely...
there are total of 659 images (1920x1080)
kakamenuvelet
2008-07-31, 14:18
may I ask why is there is a limit to 720p in your site, szsori?
Rand Al Thor
2008-07-31, 17:56
Have at trying to break it:
http://moviebackdrops.com/
I'm not entirely happy with how it turned out mainly because my design required IFRAMES, but it should be functional. I'll most likely rework it once there's a decent amount of images in there. If you run across any bugs, let me know. I'll get a forum set up for it on my site but until then just send me a PM if you find a way of breaking it.
The API is pretty simple. It's all based off IMDB's movie ids, so you just use that to form a link: http://moviebackdrops.com/backdrops/tt0443701/. That will just be a list of the fan art for the movie, tab-delimited to include the thumb.
Very nice szsori! It will be great to have a central location for all movie fanart. I will start adding mine immediately. I have a ton of anime fanart that I was going to put in .rar and host on rapidshare but this seems much more productive ;) Thanks again.
Couple of things. I too agree that it would be nice to be able to search by movie name as well as imdb title. Second, I am assuming that the size/resolution limits are due to bandwidth issues. While I totally understand that it would be nice to be able to have 1920x1080 images as well.
HackerHelpDesk
2008-07-31, 18:04
Does anyone know if there is plans to have it completely automated like the one for TV Shows? Also anyone making a site for this is there a way for users to upload there own art?
I have a ton of anime fanart that I was going to put in .rar and host on rapidshare but this seems much more productive
Please consider doing both... (well use mediafire not rapidshare).. As the site, while great, means you have to know what your looking for rather than it presenting whats there...
Thanks for the backdrops/fanarts. I'm adding mine as we speak. The navigation ain't easy yet but I'm sure there will be some progress very soon.
Thanks again!
Couple of things. I too agree that it would be nice to be able to search by movie name as well as imdb title. Second, I am assuming that the size/resolution limits are due to bandwidth issues. While I totally understand that it would be nice to be able to have 1920x1080 images as well.
The only problem with searching my movie name is that I'm actually not storing it anywhere. To speed up the site and allow it to be hosted on a shared server, I've completely bypassed using a database. I'll most likely allow browsing by movie name at some point, though, since that's slightly easier. I could possibly convert it to use a database, but like I said my main goal with this is simplicity since I don't have much time to put into it.
I'll happily give someone access to the files if they want to enhance it in some way. It just requires PHP ability.
The file size restriction is for bandwidth concerns. I've also done in-depth testing on the tv site and there's very few instances of fan art being larger than 500k when compressed at 75-80%.
The resolution restriction is actually more for simplicity than for bandwidth concerns. During my work on TheTVDB I've found that the fewer the number of formats the better. It reduces the need for more complicated scraper settings, simplifies the API, and simplifies the display of images on the site.
Does anyone know if there is plans to have it completely automated like the one for TV Shows? Also anyone making a site for this is there a way for users to upload there own art?
Already done. See the following post by spiff.
added to imdb scraper, patch is available here (http://xbmc.org/trac/ticket/4404) until svn gets back in order if you want to play with it
Please consider doing both... (well use mediafire not rapidshare).. As the site, while great, means you have to know what your looking for rather than it presenting whats there...
As noted above, I'll be adding the ability to browse movies by title, which should solve your concern. In the meantime, you can browse all available here:
http://moviebackdrops.com/backdrops/
I'll be changing that index to show the movie name and linking the results to the actual movie page. :)
Also, if anyone has backdrops they want me to add in bulk, please PM me with a link to each set. That will allow me to keep track of what's going on. Additionally, they MUST be named so they have the IMDB ID in the filename. The MeediOS ones are perfect... <IMDBID>.jpg. I can do a bulk resize on my end, so it's fine if they're 1920x1080. PLEASE still send me a PM, though, since I don't want to upload duplicates if someone starts uploading a set already.
Rand Al Thor
2008-07-31, 19:53
Ahh, thanks for the reply. That clears up my questions. One more for you though. I did not see any mention of standards for fanart. I think it should be handled in a similar manner to thetvdb. ie no resized crap quality, no LOGOS, etc etc. What do you think? Also I was going to go through and add all the posters from CRNI but it looks like you have that covered so I will only do the ones I have personally made. Cheers.
smokeyfingaz
2008-07-31, 20:22
just added 80 in 30 mins!
Yeah, no resized garbage and no logos if at all possible. I'll be tweaking the design this weekend in order to drop those annoying iframes and I'll put that text on the site at the same time.
I'll also be adding a donation button on the site. The server space is being provided by another XBMC user. He has cancer and as a result has expensive medicine costs. I figured I'd ask anyone using the site to try contributing a few bucks so we can try covering his monthly drug costs.
Rand Al Thor
2008-07-31, 20:58
just added 80 in 30 mins!
That must be why it is taking so long for me to add mine ;) Some of my very very obscure fanart looks a little wonky after the resize/compression. I will put up the ones that still look ok. If any of them don't pass the test though I can take em down. Cheers.
You'll probably all get slow uploads, although download speeds are quite fast. The server is in Europe, which means it should go fast for you Europeans. Cheaters. ;)
nuzecast
2008-07-31, 23:58
I've set up a site for music, game, pictures, weather etc backdrops.
http://www.htbackdrops.com
It's certainly not as professional as szsori's but there were some great backdrops kind of floating around in the "cloud" and getting lost so I wanted a place to store these and also where anyone can upload new non-movie, non-TV backdrops.
Hopefully you will find it useful and consider contributing backdrops for your favorite band or performer.
The site is tag-based, not category-based since many musicians switch bands or release albums solo. This way you can add multiple tags and the image can search on either.
Any comments are welcome.
Rand Al Thor
2008-08-01, 00:06
Very cool! If we could get music fanart scraped as well I think your site would get more use. Games are cool too, except now with multiple platforms I can foresee it being harder to get a game scraper. Cheers.
Gamester17
2008-08-01, 00:22
I've set up a site for music, game, pictures, weather etc backdrops.
http://www.htbackdrops.com
It's certainly not as professional as szsori's but there were some great backdrops kind of floating around in the "cloud" and getting lost so I wanted a place to store these and also where anyone can upload new non-movie, non-TV backdrops.
Hopefully you will find it useful and consider contributing backdrops for your favorite band or performer.
The site is tag-based, not category-based since many musicians switch bands or release albums solo. This way you can add multiple tags and the image can search on either.
Any comments are welcome.Cool! Does the site have an API so it makes it easy for a scaper to search it?
...checkout TheTVDB.com (http://www.thetvdb.com) (you could even get the code from there as szsori has open sourced it)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tvdb/
By the way, feel free to start a new thread in this forum to promote your site (szsori should do the same).
PS! You should promote your sites on MediaPortal (http://forum.team-mediaportal.com) and MeediOS (http://meedios.com/forum/) forums as well if you like more contributers.
HackerHelpDesk
2008-08-01, 00:34
Has anyone here tried the previously mentioned patch for IMDB's scraper? If so what kind of results?
nuzecast
2008-08-01, 00:35
To be honest I don't know if it does .. it's an open source photo gallery called coppermine .. I looked at allmusic but I couldn't see an artist ID to use to link the images to (like szsori uses the IMDB number) .
If there is one then you could use that as a tag (maybe with a prefix?) to single out the artist ...
digitalhigh
2008-08-01, 02:03
Hey, szsori...I didn't check the images yet, but I was wondering if you had my pack uploaded to the site already, or if I need to re-name all of the images in it to imdb numbers?
Archigos
2008-08-01, 03:38
@digital: It'd be better if you rename them to the imdb numbers first as it'll make it easier on our end.
@FourTwentySmilz: Sorry it took so long to respond, I've been thinking of using an image gallery script to host these on BlackMarket, but decided against it when Szsori and I talked about the other site.
@whoever asks if Spiff's patch works: Yes :grin:
Hope this helps...
xeonicxpression
2008-08-01, 03:55
I can also confirm that the patch does work. Now here is my question. Obviously there aren't a lot of backdrops yet since it was littlerly just put up. That means a lot of my movies don't have fanart for them. If I run the scraper again, it doesn't check for new fanart. I actually just uploaded a fanart picture and tried just to make sure. Is it even possible to incorporate a feature into the scraper that checks to see if new fanart is uploaded for those that don't have it yet?
Archigos
2008-08-01, 04:03
@xeonic: The best suggestion I have for that is if you check the "Movie Information" on the movies that you just uploaded it for (or any others that don't have fanart yet) and click the "Get Fanart". I know it can be a pain in the butt, but it's probably easier then doing a "Set Content" to None, then resetting it back to IMDB and rescanning from scratch. (I've done it that way and broke some of the movies in my library more then once.)
Hopefully someone can come up with a better solution for you, but that's off the top of my head and I just took my meds :rolleyes:
Have at trying to break it:
http://moviebackdrops.com/
I'm not entirely happy with how it turned out mainly because my design required IFRAMES, but it should be functional. I'll most likely rework it once there's a decent amount of images in there. If you run across any bugs, let me know. I'll get a forum set up for it on my site but until then just send me a PM if you find a way of breaking it.
The API is pretty simple. It's all based off IMDB's movie ids, so you just use that to form a link: http://moviebackdrops.com/backdrops/tt0443701/. That will just be a list of the fan art for the movie, tab-delimited to include the thumb.
this is awesome :) ... finally i found a 'pac' backdrop
xeonicxpression
2008-08-01, 04:39
@Archigos: I know that is possible, I spent a lot of time making fanart and browsing for it once before. I was just thinking more along the lines of usability in the future. Say someone adds a movie to their database and there is no fanart at that time. A week later they add another movie and run the scraper again. It would be nice if the scraper would then check for fanart for that movie that didn't have it a week ago, but maybe now does, and add it in. Obviously they could just keep going to the site and typing in the IMDB ID and checking to see if any were there, download it if there is, and do the browse, but that kind of defeats the point of the scraper. I wasn't complaining, just wondering.
I'm not even sure if it is possible to do that though. I don't know what tells the scraper to lookup a file/folder or if you could even have the scraper only do the fanart part.
Archigos
2008-08-01, 04:57
My understanding is when you do "Update Library" it checks for the fanart at that point if you're missing it. (I know it does it for TV Shows well checking for new episodes)
HackerHelpDesk
2008-08-01, 22:22
So with the patch installed and the IMDB scraper i should be able to run "Update Library" and browse to a movie that has a fanart already uploaded to the site it will automatically come up? Does anyone know if this will be included in future XBMC builds?
xeonicxpression
2008-08-01, 22:55
My understanding is when you do "Update Library" it checks for the fanart at that point if you're missing it. (I know it does it for TV Shows well checking for new episodes)
Has anyone tried it yet? It doesn't seem to work for me.
digitalhigh
2008-08-01, 23:12
Hey guys...I'm gonna try and go through all the files I've got and rename them to IMDB titles tonight...I've got A-B done thus far. Szsori, I'll send you a link to the finalized badboy for bulk uploading. :D
I've uploaded digitalhigh's backdrops and am in the process of uploading crni's (from Meedio). This will result in around 900 movies being covered, some of them with up to 5 backdrops already. I need to semi-manually upload about 100 more that weren't named properly, which I'll be done with in the next few days. I'm sure uploading these in a batch has created duplicates, so if you notice one please let me know. I'll be setting up a forum at TheTVDB specifically for these types of things, since other HTPC software will be using the site as well.
marlboroman1
2008-08-02, 23:29
I just tested the movie fan function add to the svn today I was using rev14642 (windows build) it didn't seem to work for me.
I am perhaps misunderstanding its usage. I first checked http://moviebackdrops.com/ to see what fan art was available. (my collection has few fans it seems :laugh:so I tried "Serenity" which I was confident had fans.)
Having ascertained that fan art was available set content for the folder that containd Serenity and had a look through the IMDB scraper setting I couldn't see anything relevant.
So I hit "get movie info" scraper retrieved info and covers. there was no "get fan art" in the movie info gui so I had a look at get thumb but there was no fan art there ether.
I checked for any fan art library and file mode art but found non the log below was refresh of the same film
http://pastebin.com/m45b1a1a0
has any one else had a chance to test and got better results
jmarshall
2008-08-03, 03:08
It's up to the skin to display the get fanart button.
marlboroman1
2008-08-03, 16:03
so this is planed for project mayhem 3? in the interim before this functionality being add skins how can it be tested?
Rand Al Thor
2008-08-03, 17:55
I am fairly sure that AEON has get Fanart in the movies video info window. If not it would be pretty easy to edit dialogvideoinfo.xml and find the fanart control. Depending on what skin you are using it will probably be set to <visible>container.content(tvshows)</visible> or something to that effect. You could then replace that with <visible>container.content(tvshows) | container.content(movies)</visible>
That should do the trick. Cheers.
marlboroman1
2008-08-03, 18:25
I'm not good with that kind of thing but I would like to learn would those changes be applied to the skin.xml?
as for the get fan art in Aeon its nifty but only seems to work for fan art in the movie folder or browse the network.
whereas what I assume it needs to do is for it to send the imdb ID to moviebackdrops.com and retrieve any fan art they have for that film.
Rand Al Thor
2008-08-03, 18:33
I'm not good with that kind of thing but I would like to learn would those changes be applied to the skin.xml?
as for the get fan art in Aeon its nifty but only seems to work for fan art in the movie folder or browse the network.
whereas what I assume it needs to do is for it to send the imdb ID to moviebackdrops.com and retrieve any fan art they have for that film.
No, changes would be made to dialogvideoinfo.xml as I stated above. As for the get fanart button. I am *assuming* that the button does the same function, ie if there is scraped fanart it will show or you can browse for fanart. At least that is the way the call works for tvshows, so it would seem logical that it works the same for movies. So, first make sure the movie has fanart on moviebackdrops.com. Then do a refresh on the movie (make sure there are no .nfo's for the movie either that could be overriding the imdb scan), then check the fanart button to see if anything shows up. Cheers.
marlboroman1
2008-08-03, 18:59
thanks for the info and sorry for not reading to your last post properly will take a look. I have been wondering about the possibility of adding fan art to other skins for TV now I know were to start.
I had just done a fresh install so I stared with nothing in the database I used the same movie as last time, that I had confirmed had fanart and There were no .nfo present. For whatever reason it doesn't not seem to be working it seems we must wait for some else to test, I've got nothing:)
xeonicxpression
2008-08-03, 19:34
I just tested the movie fan function add to the svn today I was using rev14642 (windows build) it didn't seem to work for me.
I am perhaps misunderstanding its usage. I first checked http://moviebackdrops.com/ to see what fan art was available. (my collection has few fans it seems :laugh:so I tried "Serenity" which I was confident had fans.)
Having ascertained that fan art was available set content for the folder that containd Serenity and had a look through the IMDB scraper setting I couldn't see anything relevant.
So I hit "get movie info" scraper retrieved info and covers. there was no "get fan art" in the movie info gui so I had a look at get thumb but there was no fan art there ether.
I checked for any fan art library and file mode art but found non the log below was refresh of the same film
http://pastebin.com/m45b1a1a0
has any one else had a chance to test and got better results
I might be missing something, but are you sure that fanart is enabled in the scraper? I would go back and find the post about the patch and see if your IMDB scraper and whatever other file it was that needed to be changed have the changes. I'm pretty sure there should be an option to turn on fanart in the IMDB scraper setting (in the GUI). Also, what skin are you using? It worked fine for me in aeon.
marlboroman1
2008-08-03, 22:13
I dident use the patch but just the changes committed to the svn. In the build I am using today rev14660 fanart is enabled in the imdb scraper settings in GUI, according to PM3 I couldn't find the setting in a aeon.
I did another log in case it may be useful I did a refresh on the same film and hit the get fanart button in aeon the when there wasn't any exited
http://pastebin.com/m49a35eee
thanks for all the help but I better stop hijacking this thread now
HackerHelpDesk
2008-08-04, 18:37
I believe in PMIII it is in the skin setting under custom there is an option show fanart in video library. Do you have this enabled?
marlboroman1
2008-08-06, 00:22
^^the above was indeed one of my problems thank you for assist it all working now.
I like to thank and apologies to all the people how being trying to help me with this. I owe Extra thanks to xeonicxpression how took the time to pm me and try and track down the problem for me.
I was even attempting to do a diff on the files from the patch and ones current svn check to see if I could identify the problem. Clearly the code wasn't the problem it was my own dimwitery, now feel a completed tool now :sad:
in an effort to explain away all this dumbassery and perhaps stopping any one else repeating my mistakes here is a list of mine
1) first after a fresh adjusted settings in aeon which has a few setting for fan art that I enabled apparently their ether not working or I missed the correct setting in aeon some how.
2) I made an assumption that the thumbs for the fan art would show up when get fanart dialogue was opened.
3)I was unaware that movie fanart only shows up in showcase view.
4) that the transition takes a wile to load the fanart.
There were probable others but cant think of them now, any how thanks for all the help. Thank you to the team for adding another great feature to the best media centre ever and with that I'm off to the naughty corner. :angry:
what happend to the guide on getting movie fan art to work in xbmc, do we still need to copy the file to the original dir? and name it how ?
I have "The Matrix - 1999" as a folder
and The Martix-fanart.jpg but that wont work ?
what happend to the guide on getting movie fan art to work in xbmc, do we still need to copy the file to the original dir? and name it how ?
I have "The Matrix - 1999" as a folder
and The Martix-fanart.jpg but that wont work ?
( yes im in fanart mode with a skin that supports movie fanart )
file.avi wants file-fanart.jpg
ahh, what if its a 2/3 cd job with files in rar's ?
you match the stacked name. you cannot currently do it for rarred items
HackerHelpDesk
2008-08-12, 20:16
Does anyone now if the new build has added scraper support for movie fanart? I think it was released today, or do you still have to install the patch?
marlboroman1
2008-08-12, 20:31
its been in svn for about week and its working well the experience is just the same as it for tv shows now. I dont know if its been added to PM3 but it operates fine using Focus and aeon (only shows up in "showcase view" in aeon) It will doubtless be added to all the skins under active development in time
HackerHelpDesk
2008-08-12, 22:55
What about fanart over smb shares? I was hoping to setup my shares with XBMC Media Companion which stores them with the video file or maybe I would need to not have Media Companion pull the fanart. Would fanart still pull on its own if there is an nfo present?
HackerHelpDesk
2008-08-12, 23:01
I have multiple XBMC's running in my house on different TV's and one thing I have been noticing is that if i want to set a custom poster or fanart I have to do it on every XBMC. Also if i want to rebuild my library I have to go through to every movie that needs a custom poster and set it back up again. Does anyone have an easier way to do this?
jmarshall
2008-08-12, 23:17
Assuming everything is the same path (exactly the same path!), you can copy your userdata/ folder over.
HackerHelpDesk
2008-08-12, 23:33
That is one way, I am also doing over multiple platforms.
travisbell
2008-08-14, 14:53
Hey guys,
I threw this up tonight. This is a no frills "I want as many high def backgrounds as possible in one place" so grab em' while they're hot.
http://backdrops.consumeroo.com/
I'll be separating them up (the more compatible XBMC .bmp's and the remaining .jpg's) so us XBMC can save the huge download. For now however, have fun.
Only One Haze
2008-08-14, 16:42
been lurkin here for a while, love my xbmc! just got into the whole fanart thing and was wonderin if someone could whip a few for me that i cant find.
All 3 Bourne Movies
Harry Potter: Sorcerers Stone
Mama's Boy
The 3 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Movies from the 90's
Waist Deep
Thanks a million guys, this is an awesome community!!
any plans on dropping your music and picture backdrops on that site... thanks so much for the other links... sure they'll be helpful to the masses!
Hey guys,
I threw this up tonight. This is a no frills "I want as many high def backgrounds as possible in one place" so grab em' while they're hot.
http://backdrops.consumeroo.com/
I'll be separating them up (the more compatible XBMC .bmp's and the remaining .jpg's) so us XBMC can save the huge download. For now however, have fun.
Only One Haze
2008-08-14, 17:52
been lurkin here for a while, love my xbmc! just got into the whole fanart thing and was wonderin if someone could whip a few for me that i cant find.
All 3 Bourne Movies
Harry Potter: Sorcerers Stone
Mama's Boy
The 3 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Movies from the 90's
Waist Deep
Thanks a million guys, this is an awesome community!!
sorry, just realized that i posted this in the wrong thread... reposting in the other on that has requests in it
been lurkin here for a while, love my xbmc! just got into the whole fanart thing and was wonderin if someone could whip a few for me that i cant find.
All 3 Bourne Movies
Harry Potter: Sorcerers Stone
Mama's Boy
The 3 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Movies from the 90's
Waist Deep
Thanks a million guys, this is an awesome community!!
http://moviebackdrops.com/
I have uploaded 4 for Waist Deep (tt0456020)
There are 5 for Bourne Ultimatum (tt0440963)
4 for Bourne Supremacy (tt0372183)
3 for Bourne Identity (tt0258463)
Only One Haze
2008-08-14, 19:03
thanks man, did i miss those before or are they recent additions?
Waist Deep and Bourne Identity are recent additions (Identity quality is so so)
Only One Haze
2008-08-14, 21:00
cool, thanks again, Ill give them a look-see when i get home
travisbell
2008-08-15, 00:52
any plans on dropping your music and picture backdrops on that site... thanks so much for the other links... sure they'll be helpful to the masses!
Yup, I'll be spending some more time this weekend getting everything streamlined and that includes adding music.
Having spent quite a bit of time adding loads of new backdrops I think it would help a lot if there was a 'Home' button or even better an IMDB ID search box at the top of every page - it'd save having to hit 'back' a few times after each upload.
Click "please try again" on top of the page, it redirects to the home.
I think that there is a problem with MovieBackdrops.com, uploaded a file for tt0344854 and it seems to be 0kb. Disk full ?
Archigos
2008-08-19, 04:31
I'll take a quick look at the file in a minute... Disk Full is far from ever being a problem on my servers... there's a few hundred GB of free space left.
Archigos
2008-08-19, 04:43
Not sure what caused the problem, but I removed the 2 dead images and corrected the movie file so you can try to upload them again.
Make sure that the files are named correctly, in the correct format, etc...
Sorry for the trouble, everything should be back to normal now.
It's working fine again, thx!
Also, I can not remember which movies right now, but sometimes the thumbnail is not generated (blank/white space instead of thumb, but the big file works)
It's working fine again, thx!
Also, I can not remember which movies right now, but sometimes the thumbnail is not generated (blank/white space instead of thumb, but the big file works)
That sometimes happens if the uploaded file isn't a jpg or if the server hiccups. I should put in better error handling for that.
Problem while trying to upload files
Warning: move_uploaded_file(backdrops/tt0996925/1.jpg) [function.move-uploaded-file]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /mounted-storage/home101c/sub004/sc12436-RBYT/sites/moviebackdrops/handler.php5 on line 39
Warning: move_uploaded_file() [function.move-uploaded-file]: Unable to move '/upload_tmp/phpsmxpmz' to 'backdrops/tt0996925/1.jpg' in /mounted-storage/home101c/sub004/sc12436-RBYT/sites/moviebackdrops/handler.php5 on line 39
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plankton88
2008-08-26, 06:17
Can you add fanart using Project Mayhem III skin?
Archigos
2008-08-26, 08:05
@defee: I'll talk to Scott more about it and see if we can fix it soon, it's probably a result of moving the server (after he wrote the site, but before we went live).
@plankton88: Project Mayhem III has FanArt, you have to go into the Skin Options. If you need more help finding it, PM me.
Archigos
2008-08-26, 08:09
Sorry, forgot to ask, but defee, can you zip up the pictures you tried to upload and give me a link via PM. Maybe it's a dimensions thing or some other kind of format issue... it'll help us figure it out (I hope).
Same here today -
Warning: move_uploaded_file(backdrops/tt0113987/1.jpg) [function.move-uploaded-file]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /mounted-storage/home101c/sub004/sc12436-RBYT/sites/moviebackdrops/handler.php5 on line 39
Warning: move_uploaded_file() [function.move-uploaded-file]: Unable to move '/upload_tmp/phpAS9x4R' to 'backdrops/tt0113987/1.jpg' in /mounted-storage/home101c/sub004/sc12436-RBYT/sites/moviebackdrops/handler.php5 on line 39
digitalhigh
2008-08-29, 02:40
Just curious...how difficult would it be to add a feature to the scraper that would let you upload a backdrop directly from XBMC? Something next to "get fanart" where you could click "add fanart" and it would give you a dialogue asking if you want to upload to themoviedb? I try to add all the new ones I make, but I do it so frequently, I often forget to set the files aside and just put them in the movie's folder...
Gamester17
2008-08-29, 13:07
Just curious...how difficult would it be to add a feature to the scraper that would let you upload a backdrop directly from XBMC? Something next to "get fanart" where you could click "add fanart" and it would give you a dialogue asking if you want to upload to themoviedb?Sounds like a good idea in theory to me, however the upstream sites (like TheTVDB.com (http://www.thetvdb.com) and MovieBackdrops.com (http://moviebackdrops.com)) first have to implement an open API that make it simple for software like XBMC to upload things like FanArt to their sites. So I suggest that you post about this idea in the forums of TheTVDB.com (http://www.thetvdb.com), and also a new separate thread in our feature suggestion forum (together with a matching feature request on trac (http://xbmc.org/trac) for tracking purposes).
PS! Only indirectly related but FYI; ALLPlayer (http://www.allplayer.org/index_en.htm) features a similar function for submitting subtitles to opensubtitles.org (http://opensubtitles.org), (they have implement an automatic upload feature that after 80% of watching a movie with subtitles the subtitle uploaded directly to the site), you can read more about API here: http://trac.opensubtitles.org/projects/opensubtitles/wiki/DevReadFirst
Sounds like a good idea in theory to me, however the upstream sites (like TheTVDB.com (http://www.thetvdb.com) and MovieBackdrops.com (http://moviebackdrops.com)) first have to implement an open API that make it simple for software like XBMC to upload things like FanArt to their sites. So I suggest that you post about this idea in the forums of TheTVDB.com (http://www.thetvdb.com), and also a new separate thread in our feature suggestion forum (together with a matching feature request on trac (http://xbmc.org/trac) for tracking purposes).
PS! Only indirectly related but FYI; ALLPlayer (http://www.allplayer.org/index_en.htm) features a similar function for submitting subtitles to opensubtitles.org (http://opensubtitles.org), (they have implement an automatic upload feature that after 80% of watching a movie with subtitles the subtitle uploaded directly to the site), you can read more about API here: http://trac.opensubtitles.org/projects/opensubtitles/wiki/DevReadFirst
One issue is that scrapers can combine information from multiple sources. As a result, end-users might not know which backdrops are coming from which site and wouldn't know if they should upload the backdrop or not. Additionally, this will almost definitely lead to duplicate backdrops because of people not being careful and/or software automatically uploading the backdrops. Finally, we like being strict about stuff... it leads to better data. Certain post-back interfaces are already in the API, but they all relate to the user data. Allowing post-backs of series data and backdrops is iffy, IMHO, since the end user won't get all of the warnings, details, procedures, context, etc before sending their data.
So in a nutshell, I'm still undecided on this.
Additionally, I'm trying to work with travisbell in merging the two movie backdrop sites. I think we're both hoping for his frontend and my API, which would allow us to seamlessly transfer the domain over and allow him to handle the data with his sweet frontend. :)
Additionally, I'm trying to work with travisbell in merging the two movie backdrop sites. I think we're both hoping for his frontend and my API, which would allow us to seamlessly transfer the domain over and allow him to handle the data with his sweet frontend. :)
whatever you do please keep images at their original size...
there are almost 1000 1080p movies fanart images uploaded to travis site and to have them resized to 720p would really be a shame
travisbell
2008-08-30, 02:05
There will be no re-sizing, fret not :D
Just working on making sure the API can be seamlessly migrated and will also probably incorporate a new (and final) domain name.
Curious, what apps right now are using moviebackdrops.com API?
digitalhigh
2008-08-30, 03:15
One issue is that scrapers can combine information from multiple sources. As a result, end-users might not know which backdrops are coming from which site and wouldn't know if they should upload the backdrop or not. Additionally, this will almost definitely lead to duplicate backdrops because of people not being careful and/or software automatically uploading the backdrops. sending their data.
Finally, we like being strict about stuff... it leads to better data...
The thought crossed my mind about people uploading dupe backdrop images...which is why I wouldn't recommend this as a feature available to ALL users. Those of us who are constantly creating brand-new backdrops for every movie that they get are few and far between. Maybe have an option to turn it on and off in the control panel...or just have it mapped to a lesser-known keyboard command?
And as an added check, a feature could probably be implemented where it showed the thumbnails of backdrops already uploaded, a thumbnail of the one to be uploaded, and then a big box that says "MAKE SURE YOU ARE NOT UPLOADING DUPLICATE IMAGES." Hell, make several boxes..."are you SURE?" kind of thing. I think with a bit of dummy-proofing, it could be a very valuable feature for everyone involved.
Oh, and I can't wait to see the merged sites. What a fantastic idea. Make sure to lemme know when the URL is changed
There will be no re-sizing, fret not :D
Just working on making sure the API can be seamlessly migrated and will also probably incorporate a new (and final) domain name.
Curious, what apps right now are using moviebackdrops.com API?
XBMC and one of the plugins for Meedio definitely. I would guess that someone from Media Portal is using them as well, but I haven't verified on their forums yet. They're pretty good about implementing stuff like this pretty quickly.
travisbell
2008-08-31, 07:51
What does everyone think is a good size for a thumbnail?
I have to already create a new size for the website banner at 780x439, is that good enough? Or are we thinking smaller than that?
digitalhigh
2008-08-31, 17:54
I'd think either 1/8 or 1/4 of the original size...good for people who like the high-rez previews and such.
digitalhigh
2008-08-31, 17:56
Ha...I just did the math for my previous statement...nvm. That's pretty small. somewhere around 533x300 or maybe a little smaller?
What does everyone think is a good size for a thumbnail?
I have to already create a new size for the website banner at 780x439, is that good enough? Or are we thinking smaller than that?
I'd suggest going smaller for the thumbnails, since it's the biggest bandwidth hog for the API. Remember that every thumbnail will be returned for every movie lookup, so having a 4KB file will make a huge difference compared to a 15KB file. The ones for my API are 230x129. Basically you just want people to be able to tell what the image is while keeping it as small as possible. That will keep your bandwidth usage to a minimum.
Also consider higher jpeg compression on the thumbnails than on the fullsize images, this can save a lot of space for very little noticeable difference, especially for a thumbnail.