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Local Posters/Thumbs - bunts - 2020-09-04
Would someone please help me understand use of local posters in Kodi? For some older movies (especially Bollywood), universal scraper doesn't find a poster. I can find the posters elsewhere and download them locally. While choosing a thumb, Kodi allows me to browse to a local drive but NOT to a network share in Windows (choose thumb -> poster -> browse). It is a problem for getting a local thumb to non-windows devices like a FireTV stick. I would like to store such posters to a network share on the same server where I have MySQL running and point Kodi to pick local posters from there. Is it doable? Thanks.
RE: Local Posters/Thumbs - black_eagle - 2020-09-04
Should be. The first item in the list when browsing should be *Item folder and your poster should be in that.
RE: Local Posters/Thumbs - bunts - 2020-09-04
Not really. The *item refers to the folder if movie is in its own folder. All my movies are in just one folder (flat folder).
RE: Local Posters/Thumbs - black_eagle - 2020-09-05
It should still work. In my screenshot both 'Extra Movies' and 'musicvideos2' are networked locations. You need to add whatever directory you want to store the images in as a source in Kodi but set the content to None so Kodi doesn't try to scrape it. The directory should then be listed in the dialog.
RE: Local Posters/Thumbs - bunts - 2020-09-05
That’s the trick I was after. Thanks.
RE: Local Posters/Thumbs - jjd-uk - 2020-09-05
I find it best to always add the top level of any potential source via File Manager, that then allows them to be browsed from anywhere you get a folder selection dialog.
Local Posters/Thumbs - black_eagle - 2020-09-05
Thread marked solved.