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divino · 2011-01-25, 22:31

Maybe a dumb question but I will ask it anyway Smile

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, 22:48

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, 10:37

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 Nod

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, 11:22

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, 14:58

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, 15:13

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, 16:33

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, 16:57

Yes, the best way.

divino · 2011-01-26, 20:08

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 Sad

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 Sad

mcborzu · 2011-01-26, 20:19

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, 01:44

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, 07:45

Export the video library in one file and you will all Fanart.

divino · 2011-01-27, 10:18

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 Smile

I only see movies on XBMC so I do not have TV fanart, no problem for me Nod

Thank you very much for your help!