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hal2100
2009-01-27, 08:31
Hello,

as far as I understand, there can only be remote or local thumbnails for TV shows (and the other items I assume). But if a local nfo exists than all the needed information to load the remote thumbnails is available.

So why not show the local and the remote thumbnails?

(Shorter post than the last, which seemed to make the forum server crash :grin:)
sho
2009-01-27, 11:11
What do you mean?
Have you tried changing thumbs?
It shows the current thumb, all remote thumbs and has the possibility to browse for local thumbs.
What more do you need?
spiff
2009-01-27, 11:25
also shows locally available thumbs such as .tbn and folder.jpg (when it applies) etc
hal2100
2009-01-27, 22:37
What do you mean?
Have you tried changing thumbs?
It shows the current thumb, all remote thumbs and has the possibility to browse for local thumbs.
What more do you need?

I tried changing thumbs, that is the reason why I miss this "feature".
Currently all my TV shows are scanned with MIP, which generated a lot of files.
Please see a sample directory below:

2009-01-25 11:16 fanart.jpg
2009-01-25 11:16 folder.jpg
2008-06-25 00:41 scrubs.tbn
2009-01-25 11:16 season01.tbn
2009-01-25 11:16 season02.tbn
2009-01-25 11:16 season03.tbn
2009-01-25 11:16 season04.tbn
2009-01-25 11:16 season05.tbn
2009-01-25 11:16 season06.tbn
2009-01-25 11:16 season07.tbn
2009-01-25 11:17 season08.tbn
2009-01-25 20:00 Season 7
2009-01-25 20:00 Season 8
2009-01-25 11:16 season-all.tbn
2009-01-27 21:16 tvshow.nfo

The tvshow.nfo seems to contain all necessary information. (Should I post an excerpt?)

But if I try to change the thumb for that show only the local folder.jpg is available, no other tbn's or remote content.

System: Linux, rev. 17329

EDIT: Excerpt from the start of the nfo:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<tvshow xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<title>Scrubs</title>
<rating>9.1</rating>
<season>-1</season>
<episode>0</episode>
<displayseason>-1</displayseason>
<displayepisode>-1</displayepisode>
<episodeguideurl>http://www.thetvdb.com/api/1D62F2F90030C444/series/76156/all/en.zip</episodeguideurl>
<plot>Scrubs is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning American comedy-drama created by Bill Lawrence. The show focuses on the lives of several people working at Sacred Heart, a teaching hospital. It features fast-paced dialogue, slapstick, and surreal vignettes presented mostly as the daydreams of the central character, Dr. John Michael "J.D." Dorian.</plot>
<thumb />
<mpaa>TV-PG</mpaa>
<watched />
<id>tt0285403</id>
<tvdbid>76156</tvdbid>
<genre>Comedy</genre>
<premiered>2001-10-01</premiered>
<studio>NBC|ABC</studio>
<actor>
<name>Zach Braff</name>

Seems like the problem might be related to:
http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=43570&highlight=folder.jpg&page=2
spiff
2009-01-28, 01:03
use pastebin.

anyways, if that nfo file has not <thumbs> entry the problem is in MIP not xbmc.
hal2100
2009-01-28, 09:09
use pastebin.

anyways, if that nfo file has not <thumbs> entry the problem is in MIP not xbmc.

Seems to be the same like in this thread:
http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?p=258583&highlight=thumb+nfo#post258583

I was unable to find the information what exactly has to be in the <thumb> or <thumbs> tag and which is the right tag. Can you point me in the right direction?
spiff
2009-01-28, 10:19
well, yes. it has to be a set of url's for the thumbs. easiest is to scan a show using xbmc, export, then comparing.

both are correct, you either do <thumbs><thumb>url1</thumb><thumb>url2</thumb></thumbs> or just <thumb>url</thumb> for a single one
hal2100
2009-01-28, 22:26
well, yes. it has to be a set of url's for the thumbs. easiest is to scan a show using xbmc, export, then comparing.

both are correct, you either do <thumbs><thumb>url1</thumb><thumb>url2</thumb></thumbs> or just <thumb>url</thumb> for a single one

This may a solution.
But my idea was another: Patch the nfo-scraper (if it is designed as such) to read the nfo, check for the <thumbs> tags, load all thumbs which are listed. Also follow the <tvdbid> tag and scan online for more.

As I understand the current situation, XBMC takes either all the information from the nfos (if they contain enough information) or uses the online (e.g. tvdb) scraper to get the information.

My idea is to combine the best of both (if the user wishes to do so) and add new/changed/whatever information to the one already written in the nfo.
hal2100
2009-01-30, 08:47
Now,

is my idea too good to be true and are you researching the needed patches or is it so silly you are still laughing your a**es off?
:;):