View Full Version : How do I set up iMDB scraper so it won't download thumb?
I've used the XBMC for the last years (since the good old Xbox times before HD was a requirement).
One thing I haven't been able to do is disabling the downloading of Thums via the iMDB scraper when i do a lookup on a movie. I like to use the scraper to get information to share with my friends before starting the movie so that they can have a say in what movie we should choose for the evening. I've already downloaded movie posters for all my movies and would have liked for the scraper to only give me the information it already does without automatically downloading the poster - that's what I think the function Get Thumb is for, if you actually wanted to get the thumb via the scraper..
Any tips on how to disable this automatically downloading?
Thanks in advance :)
Berz
the only solution i can think off is to go into the scraper source and comment out the bit that grabs thumbs
there will likely never be an official way to do this as i cant see more than a handful of people ever wanting it, and im sure none of them will be devs
Heh, well, thanks for your input. I'll check the scraper code and see :)
Just so we are clear. I'm not against the scraper downloading a poster when viewing the information page from iMDB in XBMC. What I don't like is that it replaces my already handpicked poster that shows when I list my movies.
XBMC should user folder.jpg and not replace it.
That's correct. XBMC don't overwrite the Folder.jpg but after an iMDB lookup XBMC no longer uses the Folder.jpg but the thumb grabed via iMDB. That's what I don't like ;)
natethomas
2009-04-07, 11:34
I know that placing certain files into the folder with the movie will cause the movie to stop looking for those files online. For example, if you have Ghostbusters.mkv in a Ghostbusters folder, XBMC will not look up any info about Ghostbusters if you also have a file titled "movie.nfo" in the folder.
What I might suggest doing, as a test, is to put the file "movie.tbn" in the folder with your movie.
In other words, put a second copy of your Folder.jpg into the folder, probably called Folder_1.jpg. Now rename that file movie.tbn. And I mean that literally. Don't rename it Ghostbusters.tbn. Rename it movie.tbn.
If that doesn't work, I'm out of ideas.
That's correct. XBMC don't overwrite the Folder.jpg but after an iMDB lookup XBMC no longer uses the Folder.jpg but the thumb grabed via iMDB. That's what I don't like ;)
That is incorrect. If you are seeing that it is a bug or an incorrect setup.
Ensure your using the latest SVN and post a debug log
Not sure what you mean here [xexe].
When I put a new movie folder (e.g The Matrix) in a catalog that is mounted in xbmc I can see that xbmc scans this new moviefolder and presents a generated thumb from the Folder.jpg that exists in the new moviefolder. If I afterwards replaces this Folder.jpg with a new Folder.jpg (but not the same image), xbmc won't automatically show this new Folder.jpg since it already has a generated Thumb for this specific moviefolder (if you don't force it to do a rescan). This I think is per design and not a bug.
So, what I'm trying to say is that the actual Folder.jpg isn't altered by xbmc when I activate the iMDB scraper on this movie folder, just that it overwrites the generated Thumb in %APPDATA% Cache folder for this specific movie.
And that is what's annoying me a little.
I don't see it as a bug, I'm just looking for a way to alter this behavior so that I can use iMDB without missing my hand picked movie poster :)
And I do download newest version from SVN regular.
It works.
I've been upgrading regularly for the last year and this behavior haven't changed until now recently. After upgrading from Rev 18115 as of the start of march it finally works. As long as I have a Folder.jpg already in place it doesn't overwrite the one already generated in the Cache folder :)
Thanks all for your effort.