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Create moviename.ext-big.png images from your movie.tbn files courtesy of fekker.
add the root path that contain your movies
Media > Movies_HD
it will scan recursively for all sub folders.. when it finds a valid movie file, it'll look for a movie.tbn, if there is not a <moviename>.<ext>-big.png there, it will copy the movie.tbn to <moviename>.<ext>-big.png
I didn't do any fancy background workers, so it may take a bit to run without any indication in the gui, depending on how many movies it's looking through..
Download (http://www.mediafire.com/?nymg2mzzbuy)
rickatnight11
2009-03-31, 22:18
Thanks, Hitcher. We were actually coding one of these in Perl right now, but it looks like this will do the job for us! I'll try it when I get home tonight.
It got posted a while ago but is lost in the 'Preparing my media...' thread so I thought I'd bring to peoples attention now Stark's out.
rickatnight11
2009-03-31, 22:26
Makes sense. Our script is written in Perl, which is cross-platform, so if anyone from the Linux or Mac side of the world is interested we can distribute it.
Let me guess you need to have your films in a folder as it don't work for me all my media is in one folder.
I can't get it to work either with all my movies in one folder.
Let me guess you need to have your films in a folder as it don't work for me all my media is in one folder.
I can't get it to work either with all my movies in one folder.
"it will scan recursively for all sub folders.."
ie Movies in their own folders.
Hey Hitcher, thanks for the script, but is there a way to get it to work without sub folders? I know I'm not alone in not having my movies in seperate folders for each one...I wish I knew how to edit this myself, but unfortunatly its over my head. Thanks!
And one more question, I know its probobly dumb, and I'm missing somthing, but my info views allready show the thumbnails without renaming them. What does the -big get us exactly?
Hey Hitcher, thanks for the script, but is there a way to get it to work without sub folders? I know I'm not alone in not having my movies in seperate folders for each one...I wish I knew how to edit this myself, but unfortunatly its over my head. Thanks!
This is fekker's work not mine.
And one more question, I know its probobly dumb, and I'm missing somthing, but my info views allready show the thumbnails without renaming them. What does the -big get us exactly?
It makes a copy of your tbn and renames it to 'moviename.ext'-big.png so it'll show up in the info screen. Your original thumb needs to be nice and big to take full advantage of this feature though (I use 1000x1500).
Here's the difference between the moviename.ext-big.png and the cached thumb.
http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/793/screenshot000b.png
http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/3976/screenshot000q.png
Maybe I'm crazy, but those look identical to me.
ethan_9219
2009-04-01, 02:22
yeah, this does look pretty much identical to everyone...as has been pointed out, maybe not the best example? How about a higher quality thumb to begin with of a more recent film to show the differences between the cached thumb and the big.png?
One last time. :rolleyes:
This is only on my normal PC so it's 720p not 1080p.
http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/4720/screenshot000z.png
http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/1532/screenshot002v.png
well tbh i think the effort should be put on the xbmc side to use the *.tbn file instead of a duplicate of it. (wishful thinking)
ethan_9219
2009-04-01, 03:55
Well....not too huge a difference, but still enough to want to use the big.png over the cached thumb
One last time. :rolleyes:
There's something wrong with your The Spirit screenshot. The rating at the bottom is too high.
ethan_9219
2009-04-01, 04:08
There's something wrong with your The Spirit screenshot. The rating at the bottom is too high.
What, not much of a liking for The Spirit? I'd have to agree with you on that one...
There's something wrong with your The Spirit screenshot. The rating at the bottom is too high.
For a minute there I thought you meant the positioning of it. :rolleyes:
yeah, this does look pretty much identical to everyone...as has been pointed out, maybe not the best example? How about a higher quality thumb to begin with of a more recent film to show the differences between the cached thumb and the big.png?
Yah, I think I figured out why. They are both the EXACT same image. I just checked the links. :p
http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=48023
Maybe I'm crazy, but those look identical to me.
yeah, this does look pretty much identical to everyone...as has been pointed out, maybe not the best example? How about a higher quality thumb to begin with of a more recent film to show the differences between the cached thumb and the big.png?
Yah, I think I figured out why. They are both the EXACT same image. I just checked the links. :p
Doh, I messed up the links, all corrected now.
rickatnight11
2009-04-01, 19:58
Here is a cross-platform implementation for Linux or Mac users:
http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?p=307525
Should work regardless of your library's file/directory structure.
Hope this hasnt been asked / answered yet. When I view the Movie Info on my xbox, i have the backdrop behind the text...very hard to read. I noticed that the images posted here have a greyed out section behind the text. Is that an option I need to enable / disable in the Aeon Setup?
It could just be you're using an older build of XBMC.