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[Bobbymac]

Basically canned using XBMC (due to it's audio options being limited in comparison to JRiver)

I've imported around 1000 movies (mainly mkv / avi format) into JRiver's Video library, however 80% of the cover art doesn't display the proper cover art (It basically shows the opening frame of the movie as the cover art), despite the movie file-names being correctly named (I used TheRenamer / TMDB)

Reading into it, it looks like JRiver reads embedded tags when scraping and that's whats causing the problem?

I've looked at various re-tagging and metadata generating software, however this is too time consuming and goes into more detail that I need

So is there a way to force JRiver to pull movie cover art from just from the filename or is there a simple program that takes the filename and re-tags the file for JRiver to pull the correct cover art?

[connersw]

Right click, Library Tools -> Fill Properties From Filename..

[Hendrik]

If everything is named properly, you can use Right click, Get Movie & TV Info, it'll pull new cover art from the web based on the value in the "Name" field.

[Bobbymac]

Right click, Library Tools -> Fill Properties From Filename..

Tried this last night (with both Automatic & template = filename) but didn't work 

[Bobbymac]

Tried this last night (with both Automatic & template = filename) but didn't work  

That's actually taken movies out off the library (which had proper cover art) and left the rest with the movie's first frame as the cover art  

Re-imported 30 files into the Video library and tried manually to get movie & TV info, I pick the correct movie link, it seems to tag the filename correctly but still doesn't pull in the cover art

[connersw]

First, try only working on the problem, that way you don't create more problems.  Try using a Smartlist.

Playlists -> Smartlists -> Add Smartlist -> Rules
Media Sub Type is Movie
Image File is <empty>
OK

Now you should only see the Movies missing cover art.

Next, can you please provide an example of how one of the Movies is named (ie Filename)?

Using Library Tools -> Fill Properties From Filename.. Automatic should strip away the relevant information to fill the Name field.  Then you can do as Hendrik explained.   

Maybe try it on one or two files first to make sure it is doing what you want, then try the whole Smartlist.

[Bobbymac]

Thanks for the reply, got company over, but will try later on and let you know, thanks 

[astromo]

This is the key:

Media Sub Type is Movie

For any odd ball titles, you can do a manual search at:
http://www.themoviedb.org/
That's the meta data reference that MC puts at the top of the list. So, if the media sub-type is right and the title matches TMDB in the "Name" tag, you should be pretty right.

[Bobbymac]

Thanks for all the ideas, cover art seems to now be working

Was pulling my hair out earlier when Tags wouldn't even save, turns out my shared drives on my servers permissions where not set to allow read access from my desktop PC, allowed full read & write and bang, the cover art is now getting pulled in as we speak