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Fanart in home menu? - divino - 2011-01-25
Maybe a dumb question but I will ask it anyway
Is it possible in the home menu, when the movies menu is selected to display random fanart of my movies?
Thank you!
- soulnothing - 2011-01-25
If im understanding you right. You mean the very home menu that has
Music, Videos, Movies, TV Shows, etc.
If so go to settings > skin > background. You can then scroll though the sections, and select a folder or single image.
- divino - 2011-01-26
soulnothing Wrote:If im understanding you right. You mean the very home menu that has
Music, Videos, Movies, TV Shows, etc.
If so go to settings > skin > background. You can then scroll though the sections, and select a folder or single image.
You are correct with the home menu
I know I can change the background image in the settings menu, but is it not possible to show random fanart of movies I already have in my library? The fanart is there so why don't use it? When you access the recently added movies and highlight one the fanart is shown, but I want this random when I highlight the movies menu.
Is that possible?
- Danielocean - 2011-01-26
i have a separate folder for all fanarts from my movie library aditional to the extrafanart folder... so i can use this for random fanart on home menu...
thats the way... or you have to ask for an elegant solution...
- divino - 2011-01-26
Danielocean Wrote:i have a separate folder for all fanarts from my movie library aditional to the extrafanart folder... so i can use this for random fanart on home menu...
thats the way... or you have to ask for an elegant solution...
Hmmm could you explain that a bit? What I do now is get movie information from a movie and donwload the fanart. I have no idea where xmbc stores these images but I think it's not a jpg or something else image stylisch. So I have no idea how to store the images (that are download using the movie information) in a map on the filesystem to use them as background images.
I thought it would be more elegant. Use the fanart from the movies, it's there already. But...
- sullydavid - 2011-01-26
I am not in front of my XBMC box right now so cannot give you the exact directories, but can explain what I did.
So what I do now for is point back into the thumbnails folders. As you navigate through them you can find individual ones for Music, TV Shows and Movies.
Initially I kept my own seperate folders for background images, but grew tired of maintaining them. Now I only maintain a seperate folder for Photos.
- divino - 2011-01-26
sullydavid Wrote:I am not in front of my XBMC box right now so cannot give you the exact directories, but can explain what I did.
So what I do now for is point back into the thumbnails folders. As you navigate through them you can find individual ones for Music, TV Shows and Movies.
Initially I kept my own seperate folders for background images, but grew tired of maintaining them. Now I only maintain a seperate folder for Photos.
So, if I'm correct...
When I go to settings and point the background for the movies menu to multiple images and use XBMC/UserData/Thumbnails/Video/Fanart/ as sourcefolder it will work?
- KiSUAN - 2011-01-26
Yes, the best way.
- divino - 2011-01-26
Ok I confirm it works!
But...I have the data of XBMC in the roaming folder (Windows 7 -> C:\users\xxxx\Appdata\Roaming\XBMC\........), that folder is hidden and I can't select that hidden folder in XBMC
I have copied the fanart folder to my c: drive so it is visible, and it works. But how can I use the fanart folder in the appdata folder? It is hidden and I can't select it in XBMC
- mcborzu - 2011-01-26
divino Wrote:Ok I confirm it works!
But...I have the data of XBMC in the roaming folder (Windows 7 -> C:\users\xxxx\Appdata\Roaming\XBMC\........), that folder is hidden and I can't select that hidden folder in XBMC
I have copied the fanart folder to my c: drive so it is visible, and it works. But how can I use the fanart folder in the appdata folder? It is hidden and I can't select it in XBMC
1. Settings->Appearence->File Lists..Check "Show Hidden files and directories
2. To use the app folder cache, you'd use:
<imagepath>special://profile/Thumbnails/Video/Fanart/</imagepath>
But the thing is Movie/TV are mixed, there isn't a separate TV and separate Movie fanart folder, so wouldn't work nice unless you hide Movie/TV on Home and just use Videos on Home
- User 55003 - 2011-01-27
You could give the fanart splitter script a go..
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=56153
Dharma update http://www.megaupload.com/?d=66SICWJP
- PatOso - 2011-01-27
Export the video library in one file and you will all Fanart.
- divino - 2011-01-27
mcborzu Wrote:1. Settings->Appearence->File Lists..Check "Show Hidden files and directories
2. To use the app folder cache, you'd use:
<imagepath>special://profile/Thumbnails/Video/Fanart/</imagepath>
But the thing is Movie/TV are mixed, there isn't a separate TV and separate Movie fanart folder, so wouldn't work nice unless you hide Movie/TV on Home and just use Videos on Home
I'll try that when I'm back home, but I think that should work
I only see movies on XBMC so I do not have TV fanart, no problem for me Thank you very much for your help!