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MrHaugen:
--- Quote from: Matt on October 10, 2011, 05:00:50 pm ---1) The ability to do Cover Art > Get From Internet on television programs and browse and select artwork from TheTVDB
2) A change of aspect ratio for movie and television thumbnails views to better accommodate poster artwork
3) As you arrow around, the backdrops load immediately for the selected program instead of waiting for you to enter a series
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Good! It's going the right direction. To get the covers from Internet manually is good, even though this eventually have to be automatic in some way.
One question here... This means that folder.jpg is changed to "Cover" style instead of screen grabs? Just remember that each episode often have screen grabs to illustrate a specific moment in that episode. I hope that episode thumbnails can still be used at the bottom layers. I'm using Sickbeard my self, which is downloading all meta data and images needed. The episode screen grabs is stored in "season\Thumbnails", and the link is set in the XML file for each episode. So, I'm covered. I should be able to use this with the episode thumbnails.
Another thing. The size of the Cover art seems to be rather huge. What settings is this? 1080 and 80% size? I'm testing this on a 1080P monitor with 80% size in TV, and it looks like I'm able to get 3 rows of covers, which is ok I guess. On the example image however, it's only 2 rows.
glynor:
I really don't understand why MC uses Thumbnails Style views as the default for any of the [Media Sub Type]=Video views:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=66905.msg448863#msg448863
Lineup Style is so much better and more functional.
Matt:
@Episode images
I'm going to switch to doing Series images like we do Artist images. This will allow users to continue to have episode images.
@Thumbnail lists
Sorry, but we like them. A list of movies in text or lineup mode would not be pretty. I haven't seen confusion navigating thumbnail lists, but if you have ideas to improve them from things you've seen, please let us know.
MrHaugen:
--- Quote from: Matt on October 11, 2011, 12:52:16 pm ---@Episode images
I'm going to switch to doing Series images like we do Artist images. This will allow users to continue to have episode images.
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That sounds like a great idea. That feature should probably be used for many image types in time.
One stupid question though. How do you use it exactly? :) I tried the Cover art - Get Artist image from Last.fm. But nothing happened. Where is the image stored? And can it be manually added?
Matt:
--- Quote from: MrHaugen on October 11, 2011, 02:24:09 pm ---That sounds like a great idea. That feature should probably be used for many image types in time.
One stupid question though. How do you use it exactly? :) I tried the Cover art - Get Artist image from Last.fm. But nothing happened. Where is the image stored? And can it be manually added?
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Wait until next build, since it's changing.
Then, pick some shows and use Cover Art > Get From Internet
Series images will be stored like:
[Cover art folder set in options]\Series\[Series Name].[image extension]
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