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[Mr ChriZ]

I've lost my original thread for this one.
DVD Posters continue to be downloaded that are not appropriate and at best are of appalling quality.
See screen shot
http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/7293/bladez.png

[leezer3]

Yep, seen this various times, normally seems to be America's Funniest Home Videos here.
(Normally seems to be with untagged VOBs)

Minor pain in the backside really, but a fix would definitely be nice

-Leezer-

[rick.ca]

I wasn't even aware MC had the ability to get posters from the Internet. How does that work?

I use Person Video Database to collect meta data and cover art (imported to MC using PvdImport). I don't expect everyone to go to the same lengths to get such data, but my experience suggests it's unlikely there's anything MC can do to improve the quality and consistency of posters. I use PVD to get the best available posters using several different sources. The better ones are not likely available to whatever means MC is using. Even then, a manual search is sometimes required to find an appropriate poster for more obscure videos.

Perhaps the best way of dealing with this, short of using PVD/PvdImport or MyMovies, is to set up search links for some good poster sites. Then, if the automated method fails, it's not so difficult to find one via a search. Having found one, all you need to do is copy the image or URL, and then use Cover Art - Paste from Clipboard.

[raym]

I've lost my original thread for this one.
DVD Posters continue to be downloaded that are not appropriate and at best are of appalling quality.

Yep, same here. It's quite bad. 80% of the time for me, I get a dodgy poster that has nothing to do with the DVD I'm watching. You're best bet (for now) is to disable the feature. This is what I've done on my HTPC's. I'd rather see the default "no cover" video image than this.

[Daydream]

Adding my two cents on the matter. I stopped believing in any automation in this regard. After trying various programs and options I realized that I will never be happy with the quality of posters and the likes, from one scrapper or another. An automated app will never be completely consistent, it cannot guess the poster that I want (if there are more options, domestic, international, ver. 1, 2 or 3 etc) and so on. So I got them all manually, for all 3-400 movies I have (from free or paid sites); and made my own hand-picked screencaps for almost 3000 episodes, of something that resembles what happens in each episode (ffmpeg helped).

So I guess I favor absolute control. But I'm a quality freak .

[raym]

So I guess I favor absolute control. But I'm a quality freak .

So do I but we could be talking about 2 different things. The auto poster download behaviour is useful for say popping a DVD into the drive while in Theater View as opposed to setting up or maintaining a permanent movie collection. This is what I was specifically referring to and possibly Chriz also. If the feature returned the right artwork, then we'd be halfway there to enjoying a pretty useful feature.

[Mr ChriZ]

I'd rather it didn't try unless the results were at least 90% accurate with at least mediocre quality.
The problem is I think the only way to turn it off is to also turn CD Cover art off, which I like.
I tend to get my own posters at high resolutions to replace them when I get round to it.  In the mean time these pictures are left lieing around.

[MrHaugen]

Remember to upload the posters, and the result will get better.

[Mr ChriZ]

Remember to upload the posters, and the result will get better.

I would but I don't think there's away to do that?  It's not got the cover art tools.  It's just some automatic thing that happens in the background.
I've not found away to submit to it.

[MrHaugen]

I would but I don't think there's away to do that?  It's not got the cover art tools.  It's just some automatic thing that happens in the background.
I've not found away to submit to it.

Darn. I thought there was. That sort of thing will seriously hurt such a database. I for one would not download automatically until the database was pretty packed with high resolution posters, but I WOULD submit my hand picked ones to improve it for others.

[darichman]

Me too. I've got about a thousand high-res posters I've downloaded from a subscription site. I'd be happy to seed them into Yadb.

Now that I think about it though, there's no way to do this for video files which aren't DVD files (ie avi, mkv etc), is there?

[park]

I would like to submit too. The problem that I envisage about applying cover art to ripped files is that they always get ripped with names like".title1" appended to them, and the movie titles are often simplified or cut off. MC's cover art feature would have to be very intelligent to try to figure out which cover art would correspond to which files.

That, or the onus would be on the user to get perfect names for each movie in their library.

[fitbrit]

If anyone needs 1000+ DVD cover art files (full covers back and front), I'd be happy to share if MC will support this feature.