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List view: picture instead of folder icon
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I have chosen to view my Movie collection in the "List View" in the default pm3.hd skin. Then all movie files and folders w/ movies, pictures and subtitles in it are presented in a list with an icon or a screenshot on the right.

However, only if the selection bar is over a file then screenshot of the movie is displayed on the right. If I select a folder wit a movie in it then the standard 'folder icon' picture is displayed instead. I've let Xbmc look up Imdb movie info for the movie. And that works fine: Xbmc found a movie poster, movie info etc.. But I do not seem to be able to let Xbmc show the movie poster instead of the standard folder icon...

How can I accieve that? Oo
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#2
Sounds like you need to enter the Library mode to show the thumbs for the movies you scraped via the web. If you have a folder.jpg in each folder with a movie, then it will show that instead of the folder icon when you are in file mode.
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#3
Thank you very much for your clear answer. Smile Indeed, the folder.jpg trick is what I'll use as of now. I do not like the library mode too much. Will there be a hack/patch to let the sraped thumbs be saved as 'folder.jpg' in the folder of the scraped movie?
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#4
if you have a lot of movies you can try an external program that will manage the images for you.Try searching for "ember media manager" (it supports movies only at his time)
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