Activity for Media Companion
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lee posted a comment on discussion General Discussion
So, i think i got it, after loading up the root folder, i just click and browse for the series folder and scrape them on series at a time. That worked, but one thing, most of all the TV series that i loaded up in Kodi and then scan them to the library. Some of the tv series shows the information about the series and some just don't show anything just say n information available.
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Rob posted a comment on ticket #547
Interesting catch. Will look into this, but I have a prior issue I am needing to resolve before this can be corrected.
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If no result is available from TVDB, this mean no ID's have been scraped, which means right click should not work. Use TV Show Selector tab to pick the right series. Or, use F2 to manually search for the series from TVDb or TMDb.
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Blue mark means the series is un-verified. This means while the series was scraped, MC couldn't determine pas 80% that the correct series was scraped with the data provided. This is where you select a series with a blue question mark. Check the data scraped is correct. If it is, then click the Yellow box top right by the Status saying Un-Verified to change its status to Verified! From Wiki: ~~~To the right of the title bar, are a few selection options. These are series specific, not episode specific....
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why am i'm see this and how to fix this here
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kolby created ticket #547
Fix season poster scraping if season neame
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Fix changing to TMDB if no results on tvdb
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I read the wiki over and over. I named everything right, Example TV Shows folder list all my tv series each folder is named after the TV series and inside of the TV series folder is the seasons to the show. Example TV show folder TV show subfolder Ducktales S01E07 Sphinx for the Memories When using MC i keep getting that blue question mark sign by some of the TV series
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please read the wiki, will explain everything
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What is this here and how do i fix this little issue. The subfolders are named right but i get issues here.
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Steps to Use Local NFO Files in Kodi Prepare Files: Ensure your NFO files are correctly formatted and placed alongside your movie/episode files. Add Source: Go to Videos > Files > Add Videos and browse to your local media folder. Set Content: Right-click the folder and choose Set Content. Configure Scraper: Set the content type (e.g., Movies or TV Shows). In the scraper settings, select Local information only. Scan Library: Select OK to scan the files. Kodi will read the NFO files instead of querying...
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ok, i name each episode like this (S02E07E08 Goodwizzle Hunting After Party) and use mc to scrape them. but when i try loading them up in kodi, scaning to the library, it wouldn't do
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Lee, your video files should already have the correct extensions for the episodes. I highly recommend you look at the Wiki for Media Companion, specifically the step by step setup for tv series and episodes, or the Movie step by step. this will explain everything.
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ok, i name the subfolders the same as the video. one that i name each rv episode, do i put .mp4 at the end like (S02E07E08 Goodwizzle Hunting After Party.mp4)
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ok, i name the subfolders the same as the video. one that i name each rv episode, do i put .mp4 at the end like(s04e03 episode name .mp4
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if you are talking about the blue? against one of your TV series then that means that TV series has not been verified you need to select it then confirm that the data scraped is the right TV series and then on the top right corner of media companion TV TAB click the verified button
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I was having problems with MC, it wasn't scrapping the nfo that good. I reinstalled MC and started loading up some TV shows and came out showing this over on the left side
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So IMDb stopped working about two weeks ago because... IMDB scraping is currently non‑functional due to the enforcement a web application firewall on imdb.com I am trying a few work arounds, even updating MediaCompanion to dot net 4.8, so see if I can get IMDb data back again. It is taking some time to get all the issue under control from the dot net upgrade.
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The colon character is a system character and can not be used in file or folder names. As for not scraping any metadata, only other reason could be firewall or antivirus.
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When scraping the movie Alita: battle angel (2019) and since the computer won't add the : when renaming for movie folder and the movie file, do just leave it Alita Battel angel (2019) https://paste.kodi.tv/ubareyiteg It show in the link the tags but it just not scraping the metadata from the movie, so why isn't i'm getting any metadata here could this be the cause https://kommodo.ai/i/cgw8ePt7lU43SNMkZ8JY
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Thomas Robinson posted a comment on discussion General Discussion
Got it... switched the TVDB back to TMDB, which didn't matter. Did a refresh all, no change. recsrape checking off toe get series and episode ratings from TMDB and TVDB only and no change, refreshed all again, rescraped again, and now the ratings are showing.
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Did it go down when Movies stopped scraping it as well? I got the movies scraping fine (from my last post) which is when I posted my TV setting to see if anything needed changed. At the time it was fine. Under TV Shows - Folders, I was set to TMDB and now switched to TVDB. I had a checkmark beside "series and episode rating and votes from IMDB (fallback to TVDB), I've now unchecked that. I went into one series (Invincible) and deleted all the nfo files, then checked for removed folders, and it removed....
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When scraping the movie Alita: battle angel (2019) and since the computer won't add the : when renaming for movie folder and the movie file, do just leave it Alita Battel angel (2019) https://paste.kodi.tv/ubareyiteg It show in the link the tags but it just not scraping the metadata from the movie, so why is,'t i'm getting any metadata here
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When scraping the movie Alita: battle angel (2019) and since the computer won't add the : when renaming for movie folder and the movie file, do just leave it Alita Battel angel (2019) https://paste.kodi.tv/ubareyiteg
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Some how, when i scrape my videos, it doesn't read the .NFO file I name the subfolder (Alita - Battle Angel (2019) and the movie inside of the subfolder the same name (Alita - Battle Angel (2019) but when i loaded it up in MC i load the Root folder name MOVIES and then when i go to the Main Browser tab, i scan all of the folder. I can collect the Fanart Poster and Fanart.Tv. That all scrapes and save to my subfolder with has my MP4 video inside. It's just that it won't read the .nfo
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Some how, when i scrape my videos, it doesn't read the .NFO file
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I was watching a video on how to set the setting and made copies! https://www.image2url.com/r2/default/images/1777339410169-4cd85ad4-477a-489e-9210-9b5e2701c5ff.png https://www.image2url.com/r2/default/images/1777339449522-8c2f91b2-7a87-4f71-9d65-a89c818bddcf.png https://www.image2url.com/r2/default/images/1777339484640-7db3b92f-ad36-47b4-9aa4-c89d33387b9a.png https://www.image2url.com/r2/default/images/1777339511536-86c6a47d-7ff6-4ca5-a23c-6d36e9326e99.png https://www.image2url.com/r2/default/images/1777339536560-a0709d5a-55f7-4b59-aa2c-1e831d243640.png...
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I was watching a video how to set the setting and made copies! https://www.image2url.com/r2/default/images/1777339410169-4cd85ad4-477a-489e-9210-9b5e2701c5ff.png https://www.image2url.com/r2/default/images/1777339449522-8c2f91b2-7a87-4f71-9d65-a89c818bddcf.png https://www.image2url.com/r2/default/images/1777339484640-7db3b92f-ad36-47b4-9aa4-c89d33387b9a.png https://www.image2url.com/r2/default/images/1777339511536-86c6a47d-7ff6-4ca5-a23c-6d36e9326e99.png https://www.image2url.com/r2/default/images/1777339536560-a0709d5a-55f7-4b59-aa2c-1e831d243640.png...
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I was watching a video how to set the setting and made copies
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I was watching a video how to set the setting and made copies
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it looks like you're scraping with IMDb options enabled please disable all source data for scraping from IMDb is this is currently not available and try again
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I scan the movie but nothing like the metadata won't show in the box
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I tried to update my library in Kodi and nothing shows up, I do need metadata in order for that to work.
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here is a snapshot of a movie and artwork alone with it
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https://sourceforge.net/p/mediacompanion/wiki/Movies/ you really need yo check out the wiki. Left column of the picture lists your movie collections. The red X indicates you have not set to download collection images. The right list shows the movies that belong to the selected collection, showing which movies you have, and which ones are missing.
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I scrapped all of the movies, but in the movie settings tab, it shows this, what's the issue here. how would i go by fixing this if so
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I scrapped all of the movies, but in the movie settings tab, it shows this, what's the issue here
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Is the info there in Media Companion, if so then Kodi source hasn't been set properly. please check kodi help for setting up library.
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The artwork shows up, but the information of the movie don't show up
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In Kodi after you add a source, eg, Movies.you then need to set the content for that source, and set the info source as local nfo. Then do a library update will scan the source and create the Library.
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I have Kodi on my Pi connected to my TV I have Kodi install on my PC so i can test everything before connecting to my TV. I loaded up my videos in Kodi but it wouldn't create a library. Do, i need to add the .mp4 at the end of the video
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Have you got Get episode Ratings from IMDb enabled? If so, please unselect. IMDb is not available at present. Also, what is your TV series source? TVDb or TMDb?
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Titles sums it up... past week I've added 3 series to my drive, and not getting any ratings scraped.
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We're all over the place with the errors. the year of 1901 is set because the move failed to scrape. Use Change Movie tab to pick and scrape the right movie from TMDb.
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I have here two movies It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966) and Still Smokin (1983) Some how, i tried to scrape them, But the movie "still smoking (1983) It shows up in the scraper "still smoking (1983) (1901). where that came from, i don't know. The folder and the video inside of it's folder is named right Still Smokin (1983)
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Unselect all options to scrape from IMDb as this is currently not available. Change Actor source to TMDb, then select a couple of movies together, right click, select Rescrape Specific -> Actors Hopefully you should see an .actors folder in each movie folder.
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I finally got it straight, but when i do scrape the videos, i later go over to the drive that they stored on for Kodi, the folder when the actors stored on, is not there, but here's the thing, why is it that it won't create a folder for the collection of the actors of the movie, but when i do a re-scrape it then creates the folder for the actors.
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i finally got it going. So i loaded the main folder with is my MOVIE folder that has each movie folder of that movie. So i was doing good. I went to my drive of my media on it to check everything but one issue, the folder that contains the actors wasn't even there. So in other words, i'm missing the folder with all the actors stored
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sure. movie and TV folders Movie folder Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip (2015) mp4
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sure. movie and TV folders Movie folder Movie mp4
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sure.
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sure
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sure
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Ignore last message. can you post a screenshot of your folder structure please.
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Media Companion doesn't link to external converter. can you advise exact steps how this link appeared?
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I did that, but when i select on Fansrt.Tv, this pops up
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I did that, but when i select on Fansrt.Tv, this pops up file:///C:/Users/leigh/Downloads/Media%20Companion.jpg
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I did that, but when i select on Fansrt.Tv, this pops up file:///C:/Users/leigh/Downloads/Media%20Companion.jpg
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I did that, but when i select on Fansrt.Tv, this pops up https://www.freeconvert.com/heic-to-jpg?utm_source=googleads&utm_medium=image%20file%20converter%20to%20jpg&utm_campaign=asc_spcific_abt_file_size_copied&utm_content=182591669444&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22666691496&gclid=CjwKCAjwzLHPBhBTEiwABaLsSv4UO5E_TJ19P4oLR7jnYk4ll7hjZYk9Bg1gUjZNrvVU6pA_QBk8fBoCwlIQAvD_BwE
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for fanart.tv images, you will need each movie to be in its own folder. ie z:\Movies\Dallas Buyers Club\Dallas Buyers Club.mkv
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First i spent over a year upgading my videos. Clearer and 1920x1080, got that. So now i'm using MC to scrape all my video. Started with my Movies, I loaded my Movie folder that has all my folders for each one of the movie. So i go over to Fanart.Tv but this message pops up "Selected Movie is in the Media Folder Unable to save artwork from Fanart Tv. to the root folder suggest rename movie to the folder to be compatible with Artwork Downloader"
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I use a mix of TVDb and TMDb for Series. For Movies, TMDb. At this time IMDb is unavailable...I am working on this presently, but there are no promises IMDb will return as it once was.
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When using MC for scrapping for actors and info about the movie or TV Show TVDb, IMDb, TMDb, which would be the best.
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[#541] IMDB scraping is currently non‑functional due to the enforcement a web application firewall on imdb.com
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Chris B posted a comment on discussion General Discussion
Just tried 3 movies, no outline or plots for any new movie. I guess they changed something again?
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taking time to build end-point for imdbapi.dev access. But note: There will be quite a few items no longer able to be scraped from IMDb, but I will post a list when this is complete.
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James Kirk posted a comment on ticket #541
Rob is there any rough time schedule for this update (IMDB function is totally broken now)?
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Not for TV. I always say, if info is missing from TMDb or TVDb, pay it forward and add the missing info.
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No, I have another source for IMDb info, but it will mean we can't get all the info that IMDb has on its pages.
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Oneirus Elio posted a comment on ticket #541
Does this mean the end of Media Companion or the end of using IMDB for scraping?
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Add fallback option if no actors available
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Same info as OMDBApi, but without a required API Key. So both IMDBAPI and OMDBAPI get there data from IMDb's Non-Commercial Dataset https://developer.imdb.com/non-commercial-datasets/ But that does not give all the info we were getting from deep in IMDb's pages. Still, I like to have alternative sources, so I'll investigate.
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Use IMDBApi.dev as alternative to imdb scraper
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lazaruslong67 posted a comment on discussion General Discussion
Actually no rush - I was able to pull the code down and do a quick build. Working great so far!
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I'll try for this weekend
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No there is nothing in Tv section that is IMDb apart from get episode plot if available. Keywords are only available if series is scraped from TMDb from what I recall.
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Tushar Bhutt posted a comment on ticket #541
Thank you for the honesty; it must suck to have taken over something and not have access to all the material AND not have the tools to rebuild. And I would not trust an AI tool for it either :)
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Any idea on when the new version will be released? Thanks!
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Ah, that's a shame. Should I change anything in the TV section as well to avoid IMDB issues?
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I have scraped this movie and keywords are working from TMDb/ So since IMDb scraping is not working anymore, please unselect all options to get keywords from IMDB, basically everything in the box title Scrape the following from IMDb - uncheck
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While I would like to say yes, that is a great hint....MC is coded in Dot Net 4.0. I would need to convert MC up to Dot Net 4.8....which is where the problem lies. We have some legacy 3rd party code that is locked at dot net 4.0, no access to the source material. I have been looking at how to transition to 4.8, but when I do, I get over a thousand errors pop up, and I'm just not that good at coding to get past them for now.
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Maybe this solution from Ember could be of use? Unsure :/ https://github.com/nagten/Ember-MM-Newscraper/releases/tag/1.11.1.9
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Had this with TV and ended up being that number of keywords got set to 0 from 5 somehow, so I checked that first and the number is still set to 5 for movies and for tv series. Last half dozen movies I've scraped, no tags/keywords. As always, delete cache/missing/seriesxml folders, deleted the contents of one of the movie folders (except .mkv and .srt) opened the app and did a refresh for movies then tv series. Recraped the movie and same... everything looks ok just no tags.
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I feel this is an issue with which ever rating/votes source is the primary. eg we can store TMDb, IMDb, and Rotten tomatoe rating and votes, but I am unsure which one the data would be saved to if manually set in MC. <ratings> <rating name="imdb" max="10" default="true"> <value>8.200000</value> <votes>1023900</votes> </rating> <rating name="metacritic" max="10"> <value>7.200000</value> <votes>14</votes> </rating> <rating name="themoviedb" max="10"> <value>7.800000</value> <votes>12052</votes> </rating>...
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I had this happen to me once, just yesterday, but all other movies renamed correctly before and after, so put it down to a glitch.
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Wayne Davis created ticket #543
movie scraper blanking out title
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Not saving manually edited rating information
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Very bad!
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Looks to be the end of getting data directly from IMDb. From all testing and research, IMDb have added another layer to their protection from data mining, stopping a number of apps and sited gathering data directly from their pages. As their API is Commercial, there in only access from OMDBAPi for basic IMDb movie data. End of an era.
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Yes, looks like large changes at IMDb. I can get to IMDb for a movie, Will try and work on this over the weekend....hopefully sooner.
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Movies don't seem to access IMDB or Movie DB
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Probably a change IMBd have done. I'll look into it.
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Anthony Bennett created ticket #540
3.7.7.3 | Movie Plot scraping issues
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Very good, ty.
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I know it doesn't upscale but usually if bigger than 1000x1500 (sometimes they're 2000x3000) it downscales to 1500, if it's under that size it stays that size. Isn't that correct? For example, FALLING SKIES tv series, the season posters are 680x1000 but are saving at 400x578. So, I clicked to not resize at all. Same issue. However, I started clicking through all the images and half were resizing to 400x578, and half were staying at 680x1000. I wonder if the ones resizing were uploaded by the same...
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I did some tests and checking, and found for one Series, the posters were all over the place in size from the source TMDb, as well as TVDB. Just to be clear, MC does not upscale images, os if you have a poster at source that is 771 x 1100, MC will not upscale to 1000x1500. But it will downscale a 2000x3000 poster to the set size of 1000x1500. As for Actor images, TMDb supplies larger actor images than TVDb. MC returned Peter Dinklage from TMDb at 1000x1500, but TVDb only supplied actor images at...
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Nothings changed in that section, haven't had to go into the resized code in some time. I'll check it out soon, but can you test by changing the realize to another setting, and download a poster, then change back to your preferred sizing and download a new poster.
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I have my posters set to max 1500, actors 720 under Common Settings. Never been an issue before but today I noticed I'm saving season posters that are 680x1000 and they're being shrunk to 400x578 and kinda blurry. Did I accidentally click a setting somewhere? I looked at ones from last week and they show 680x1000.
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Movie - Add Rescrape specific option rescrape extra fanart/thumb images.
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So Extrathumb folder are only created if and when there is an image to be saved, and the folder doesn't exist. Creating an empty folder is as a place-holder is not productive, just another folder to open and check by MC. MC checked to see if the folder exists, if not, continues to next movie. So at this time, no, MC will not be creating an empty folder.
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