[SOLVED] Movie Scrapers Poster and Fanart Not Working

[xman]

Well it seems as I had it working all along but a good member just confirmed it. I was doing the file you prepped and putting it in the right location correctly, it was the fact that on most movies the 1st 8, 10 actually up to 20 thumbnail downloads, depending on the popularity of the movie, don't find a thumb and you need to keep scrolling down the thumbs selections and in most cases, you will get to working thumbnails down the bottom of the avaliable list. The reason I was thinking it wasn't working was because doing a "scan for new content" resulted in no thumbs being loaded, probably because the automated system simply stops looking for the thumb if it doesn't see any in the first couple of thumb locations. By the way, this is with both IMdB and the TMdB scrapers. I am using both and both have the same issues with the upper thumbnail download locations not working . The movie data is working fine. Thanks for the fix Dom, it has allowed me to finish a couple of machines this weekend with small HDDs and content. I just hope no one wants a 2TB off me in a hurry. Scanning thumbnails for every movie manually really suks and on a 2Tb I usually get over 700 movies on them. I can't do it this way on jobs like that. It takes the automated system a couple of days when it works perfectly. I think it would take over a week manually.

[Babyss]

Hello ,
Thank you for informations, but i try this solution , i download your file tbmd , it don ´t work.
Please, can you send me your xbmc files .

[Dan Dar3]

That makes sense reading the post you've mentioned earlier and Kodi's scrapper seems to be getting it correctly, as the base_url for images might be subject to change.

http://docs.themoviedb.apiary.io/#refer ... figuration

Get the system wide configuration information. Some elements of the API require some knowledge of this configuration data. The purpose of this is to try and keep the actual API responses as light as possible. It is recommended you cache this data within your application and check for updates every few days.

ParseTMDBBaseImageURL gets the base_url from the /configuration call, in our case:

https://api.themoviedb.org/3/configurat ... b854740ea9

{"images":{"base_url":"http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/", ...}}

[Dom DXecutioner]

... it was the fact that on most movies the 1st 8, 10 actually up to 20 thumbnail downloads, depending on the popularity of the movie, don't find a thumb and you need to keep scrolling down the thumbs selections and in most cases, you will get to working thumbnails down the bottom of the available list....

I'm not sure why it does that for you; i scrapped about 80 new items using the update library menu and all posters and fanart downloaded fine.

@ Dan Dar,
That's exactly what I was referencing...

[Dom DXecutioner]

Update!

Ok, i just did a new xbox and scanned 459 items; although the poster is there for all of the single movies, it does not show the art work for collections... I will try to look into this; stay tune

Dom DXecutioner
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[Babyss]

please can you send me your xbmc folder ?

[Dom DXecutioner]

There is no need for that as it's just a matter of replacing a single file, so no...

[Babyss]

yi , i found my mistake , it's work very well.
i use your file (description post 7).
thanh you
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[Dan Dar3]

Ticket 344 created.
http://redmine.exotica.org.uk/issues/344