web interface shows thumbnails instead of posters

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web interface shows thumbnails instead of posters - marengbj - 2015-11-07

hi all

in the web interface for movies, i would like the thumbnail shown to be the poster by default (instead of the thumb). this is because the 'thumb.jpg's that have been scraped are 1000 × 562 sort of size and get cropped or squished depending on the web interface. is there an option to make this happen?

programatically - the web interface posts a request for the "thumbnail" property to the JSON-RPC API and receives art in the following order of precedence "thumb" > "poster" > "fanart". i would rather kodi chose the poster over the thumb.

thanks
ben

RE: web interface shows thumbnails instead of posters - marengbj - 2015-11-08

workaround: delete all thumbs

find . -type f -name 'thumb.jpg' -delete
MyVideos93.db - delete from art WHERE url LIKE '%thumb.jpg' and type IN ('thumb')

RE: web interface shows thumbnails instead of posters - staxxnl - 2020-12-13

Thanks for the solution. My web interface was showing thumbnails that didn't exist anymore, for like 700+ movies.
It took me a bit to figure out how to do the sql query and thought it might be of use for someone. In my case Kodi is installed on a raspberry pi 4 with libreelec.

Login to ssh

Navigate to the kodi database folder:

Code:
cd ~/.kodi/userdata/Database

To login to the database do:

Code:
sqlite3 MyVideos116.db

Do the query:

Code:
delete from art WHERE url LIKE '%thumb.jpg' and type IN ('thumb')

Logout of sqlite3:

Code:
.quit

That worked perfectly, now all old links to the thumbs are removed and the web interface shows the correct poster images! Big Grin