TV series covers and episode thumbs

[o_neill]

Is scraping of them working for you in alpha4?

I'm using thetvdb.com. Adding tv series to the database works, I successfully get the series and episode descriptions, but I don't see any covers and no episode thumbs. I did a complete new scan of my folders, deleted the thumbnail cache but nothing helped. I've marked the following settings:
- download season covers automatically
- automatically generate thumbs for videos with no cover art (although I'm not sure what this does in library mode)
- in scraper settings: prefer posters, use fanart

Moreover, if I'm in library mode and display the detailed episode or series description and enter the menu for cover download, I can see multiple entries "Online Cover" there, but no picture is shown.

Oh, and just one thing to mention: Movie covers from imdb work perfectly...

[jmarshall]

It's working fine here - perhaps a debug log during a scan (or a "Get thumb" lookup) will reveal some details.

[o_neill]

Hi jmarshall,

Thank you for your interest. :)
I enabled the debuglog, made a test folder with some Lost-episodes and resraped them. The debuglog is very interesting. Here is what catched my eyes. The rest are follow-up errors I guess:

DEBUG: Adding new item to tvshows:E:\Test\Lost\
INFO: Get URL: http://thetvdb.com/banners/posters/73739-2.jpg
INFO: Creating album thumb from memory: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\XBMC\UserData\Thumbnails\Video\f\fca62ed8.tbn
DEBUG: Unable to resolve msvcr71.dll ??1exception@@UAE@XZ
DEBUG: Unable to resolve msvcr71.dll ??0exception@@QAE@XZ
DEBUG: Unable to resolve msvcr71.dll ??0exception@@QAE@ABV0@@Z
DEBUG: Unable to resolve msvcr71.dll ?terminate@@YAXXZ
DEBUG: Unable to resolve msvcr71.dll ??1type_info@@UAE@XZ
DEBUG: Dll MSVCP71.dll was not found in path
DEBUG: Unable to load referenced dll MSVCP71.dll - Dll: Q:\system\ImageLib.dll
DEBUG: Unable to resolve MSVCP71.dll??0?$basic_string@DU?$char_traits@D@std @@V?$allocator@D@2@@std@@QAE@PBD@Z
DEBUG: Unable to resolve MSVCP71.dll?1?$basic_string@DU?$char_traits@D@std@ @V?$allocator@D@2@@std@@QAE@XZ
DEBUG: Unable to resolve MSVCP71.dll?0?$basic_string@DU?$char_traits@D@std@ @V?$allocator@D@2@@std@@QAE@ABV01@@Z
DEBUG: msg: Error loading jpeg - no SOI marker found in first 4096 bytes
DEBUG: msg: PICTURE::CreateThumbnailFromMemory: Unable to decode image. Error:
ERROR: PICTURE::CreateAlbumThumbnailFromMemory: exception: memfile FileType: .tbn
.......

The last to entries "no SOI marker found" and "CreateThumbnailFromMemory: Unable to decode image" appear very often after that.

Looks like it cannot find msvcr71.dll? WDYT?

[jmarshall]

That's not a problem.

The "no SOI marker found in the first 4096 bytes" thing is the problem. Wonder why it's doing that.

Do you mind grabbing a fresh copy of ImageLib.dll from SVN:

http://xbmc.org/trac/browser/branches/linuxport/XBMC/system/ImageLib.dll

and putting it in your XBMC/system/ folder (likely under Program Files/XBMC)

Cheers,
Jonathan

[o_neill]

I tried the latest ImageLib.dll, but I still get dozens of the above entires

Get URL: http://thetvdb.com/banners/actors/27750.jpg
INFO: Creating album thumb from memory: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\XBMC\UserData\Thumbnails\Video\c\ce02f19f.tbn
DEBUG: msg: Error loading jpeg - no SOI marker found in first 4096 bytes
DEBUG: msg: PICTURE::CreateThumbnailFromMemory: Unable to decode image. Error:
....

I wonder what it's scrapping there, because if I follow e.g. the above link
(http://thetvdb.com/banners/actors/27750.jpg) there's nothing in it. Could that be the reason?

[jmarshall]

Following the link works fine here - looks like there's something up with your internet connection perhaps??

[o_neill]

That's it!
Although I allowed every traffic for XBMC in my firewall, the advertising filter still blocked the banners from thetvdb. Damn. :rolleyes2:

Nevertheless, thank you for the support Jonathan!!

[jmarshall]

You are most welcome - glad you got it sorted :)