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digitalhigh
2008-11-28, 19:59
Just to satisfy my own curiosity...what is the purpose of having a thumbnail as a .tbn file? It would appear that the file is identical to folder.jpg in every way except for maybe the filename...
.tbn can be used for other stuff, such as for an movie named "My movie.avi" you can add a "My movie.tbn" etc..
mkv1080p
2008-11-29, 04:42
because some people have many movies in one folder so folder.jpg wouldn't work.
FourTwentySmilz
2008-11-29, 05:14
Yeah....my list is 450+ movies....all in 1 folder. I need those .tbn files!!!!!LOL LOL
because some people have many movies in one folder so folder.jpg wouldn't work.
Why not change the naming convention?
moviename-folder.jpg
moviename-fanart.jpg
moviename-thumbnail.jpg
etc
I think the OP's asking "why .tbn instead of jpg" it would make sense if I had the movie "The Sting" artwork should logically be "the sting.jpg" or .bmp. If I hadn't read the wiki carefully I would have never figured it out, folder.jpg doesn't make as much sense for me, if I have one movie in each folder, folder.jpg isn't even the best method IMHO. if I'm searching for movie art work (I have 1 movie per folder) folder.jpg's can get confusing. I myself have always been curious why it's not moviename.jpg, butg for whatever reason it's tbn :)
I would like to add that the .tbn extension adds quite a bit of work to people using e.g. the gimp to create the thumbnails. Because the extension doesnt reflect the filetype, one option to show all files has to be set as well as the file type has to be chosen manually from a huge list.
Another advantage of filetype extensions would be to add support for other file types some day.
griffore
2008-12-31, 15:32
Agreed. It seems the better option to keep the image file extension and just use the movie name as the title. Or add '-cover' just as it's being done with '-fanart' right now.
But if it is changed to movie_name.jpg from movie_name.tbn be sure to keep the backwards support for tbn for everyone who burnt their DVDs with the tbn file. ;)