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MatthiasM

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MatthiasM

Hello community

I have 3 libraries active with my emby instance - 1 series for kids, 1 series for adults and 1 series documentation.

With the 2 libraries for kids and adults the CA images looks cool with DVD and Blue Ray covers - like this:

 

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and

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but the documentation series looks different:

DVD

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Blue Ray

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4k

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Can someone tell me where the format of the images are triggered?

The 3 libraries are set up the same way:

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Thanks

Matthias

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MatthiasM

Hi Luke, thx for watching.

Somewhere CA must read out how to handle the images in the library.

I hope that I set up the docu library in a different way or set a property in the library settings wrong what result in the mismatch aspect ratio of the cover art.

 

best regards

Matthias

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Happy2Play
7 minutes ago, MatthiasM said:

I hope that I set up the docu library in a different way

So you are wanting to setup different profiles?

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MatthiasM

Thx for the response but I think my english is to bad to  describe my problem. Please let me make a reset and try an other perspective ;)

The graphically look of CA is different with my 3 libraries. 2 looks good in aspect ratio and transperancy of the corners of the cover art. (please ignore the scale of my screengrabb)

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1 library has a different behavior with CA. the aspect ratio is sometimes right but there is a grey border with the cover art or the edges looks good but the aspect ratio is wrong.

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My question is what is wrong with this 3rd library? Why are the CA looks so bad compared to the other 2 libraries.

Thx for your patience.

Matthias

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Happy2Play
25 minutes ago, MatthiasM said:

1 library has a different behavior with CA. the aspect ratio is sometimes right but there is a grey border with the cover art or the edges looks good but the aspect ratio is wrong.

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My question is what is wrong with this 3rd library? Why are the CA looks so bad compared to the other 2 libraries.

Okay you are talking about a Series that does not have a Season image so it is inheriting the Series image, correct?  So the same/similar happens without CoverArt plugin.

 

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@Happy2Playthat is not correct. some of the series in documentation habe season images but the negative look.

I deinstall CA and take this screen shot as example with and without CA

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Thx

Matthias

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And what size is the image and as each treatment will act differently along with the "Use original art aspect ratio" option.

Use original art aspect ratio
By default, CoverArt will fit the original artwork into the shape of the particular treatment that is chosen. Enabling this will instead make it more closely fit the final image to the shape of the original artwork.

But this image with the grey background showing should mean there is no Season image and this is the inherited Series image.

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@Happy2Play now I catch your answer!

You are right, the dissorted CA images are in the database and not in the file system as "seasonXX-poster.jpg".

I 'll try copy some inages in th filesystem.

thx

Matthias

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Happy2Play
12 minutes ago, MatthiasM said:

I deinstall CA and take this screen shot as example with and without CA

Note you don't have to uninstall as there is a ignore option in each treatment.

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Hi.  Are you positive the docu series is properly identified as a TV series and all the seasons as seasons?

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Thx @ebr and yes, I'm sure that are real series indetified and have still this dissortion effect the the aspect ratio.

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This example is Planet Earth by Studio BBC One - 1 Season - and IDs in the emby DB

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I put a seasonal image in the folder as @Happy2Play mentioned

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but the Season Cover Art is still wrong displayed (aspect ratio).

In That case I disover that emby didnt save such season images into the filesystem if I upload a .JPG with the web-interface. The image is only store in the emby DB. You have to put those images to the filesystem by yourself! @Luke this should be done by emby automaticly if the settings within the library are set to "place images into media folders".

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Thanks for your support gentlemen!

Best reagrds

Matthias

 

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It looks like those season posters are being double-treated.  What do the original images look like?

Also, did you check the option to "Use original art aspect ratio" in CA?

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OK, I found out some further facts.

1st the image treatment depents on the apect ratio of the origin image - example:

season01-poster.jpg.9225f8540f3a89f7622b31d45fcae5d7.jpg    ->    grafik.png.dab965084e38a12e21693d705c8206c8.png

but this image with cropped edges left and right

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and if I turn the option "Use original art aspect ratio" to off, it looks always fine also without editing/cropping the image

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Therefor for those who need to leave the option "Use original art aspect ratio" set to on it will be good to adjust the switching thereshold between CD cover format and DVD cover format in CA.

Thx

Matthias

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That option exists for folks who want the treated image to stay the same shape as the original.  The default should be "off" so that things like this don't happen and CA will normalize all the images to fit the treatment shape.

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thx for the explanaition @ebr but this function don't work as it sould as you can see with this example:

season01-poster.jpg.9225f8540f3a89f7622b31d45fcae5d7.jpg    ->    grafik.png.dab965084e38a12e21693d705c8206c8.png

CA do change the aspect ration of the cover art image depending on the aspect ratio of the orinal image. In this case to CD format.

The setting "Use original art aspect ratio" is set to on.

thx

Matthias

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4 hours ago, MatthiasM said:

CA do change the aspect ration of the cover art image depending on the aspect ratio of the orinal image

Hi.  Yes, because that's exactly what you told it to do:

4 hours ago, MatthiasM said:

The setting "Use original art aspect ratio" is set to on.

If you don't want that behavior, uncheck that option.

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thx @ebr I find a setting that works for me - "Use original art aspect ratio" set to off.

While set to "on" CA don't represent the aspect ration of the original image. In my last post the y achsle of the cover art is compressed by factor 2.

The left image is the original image stored in the filesystem, right is what CA build out of it.

Sorry if I did a lot confusion whith this topic.

Best regards

Matthias

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On 8/27/2021 at 2:49 PM, MatthiasM said:

right is what CA build out of it.

Did you find that actual image in your file system as well (in the cache) or did you only view it in the web interface?  It is also possible the UI was what was changing the shape.

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You are right @ebr the post I send before was the original image left and a screen shoot from the web browser right.

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I took a while but I do find the depending image @ "Emby/cache/images/enhanced-images/6/60d1bf0c7b3b5eca3c121511ba790f8d.png"

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and the result from CA @ "Emby/cache/images/resized-images/1/147a3f6c-9cdd-6b8f-ff4c-963a567277cf.png"

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The ascpect ration of the original image is 0,7599:1 before the resize the CA image has 0,8546:1 and the resized result has 0,8533:1.

I attach all 3 images as .zip to this post.

Here is the depending log entry with emby:

2021-08-31 21:28:44.909 Info Server: http/1.1 Response 200 to 10.100.1.4. Time: 33ms. http://10.100.1.222:8096/emby/Items/220671/Similar?Limit=12&UserId=71cac90c0d7e4912a3b2fc799bd5f217&ImageTypeLimit=1&Fields=PrimaryImageAspectRatio,UserData,CanDelete,ProductionYear&EnableTotalRecordCount=false&X-Emby-Client=Emby Web&X-Emby-Device-Name=Firefox&X-Emby-Device-Id=TW96aWxsYS81LjAgKFdpbmRvd3MgTlQgMTAuMDsgV2luNjQ7IHg2NDsgcnY6NzAuMCkgR2Vja28vMjAxMDAxMDEgRmlyZWZveC83MC4wfDE1NzM4ODc0Nzc1NDY1&X-Emby-Client-Version=4.6.4.0
2021-08-31 21:28:44.938 Info Server: http/1.1 GET http://10.100.1.222:8096/emby/Items/220672/Images/Primary?maxHeight=300&maxWidth=300&tag=60d1bf0c7b3b5eca3c121511ba790f8d&quality=90. UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0
2021-08-31 21:28:44.939 Debug SqliteItemRepository: Public GetItemLinks
2021-08-31 21:28:44.945 Debug CoverArt: Opening /volume1/dokuserien/Big Pacific/season01-poster.jpg for decoding without forceCleanBitmap
2021-08-31 21:28:44.952 Debug CoverArt: CoverArt will treat /volume1/dokuserien/Big Pacific/season01-poster.jpg
2021-08-31 21:28:44.964 Debug CoverArt: CoverArt using profile default for Staffel 1
2021-08-31 21:28:44.965 Debug CoverArt: Opening /volume1/Emby/cache/coverart/4.1.15.0/ClearCase/Season.png for decoding with forceCleanBitmap
2021-08-31 21:28:44.965 Debug CoverArt: SKFileStream opening /volume1/Emby/cache/coverart/4.1.15.0/ClearCase/Season.png
2021-08-31 21:28:44.971 Info Server: http/1.1 GET http://10.100.1.222:8096/emby/Items/220674/Images/Primary?maxHeight=296&maxWidth=525&tag=914aa93ac2c17554a240c97b80227aee&quality=90. UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0
2021-08-31 21:28:44.972 Debug SqliteItemRepository: Public GetItemLinks
2021-08-31 21:28:44.973 Info Server: http/1.1 GET http://10.100.1.222:8096/emby/Items/220707/Images/Primary?maxHeight=296&maxWidth=525&tag=1ed6276834e0285d883d802899780535&quality=90. UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0
2021-08-31 21:28:44.974 Debug SqliteItemRepository: Public GetItemLinks
2021-08-31 21:28:44.975 Info Server: http/1.1 Response 200 to 10.100.1.4. Time: 4ms. http://10.100.1.222:8096/emby/Items/220674/Images/Primary?maxHeight=296&maxWidth=525&tag=914aa93ac2c17554a240c97b80227aee&quality=90
2021-08-31 21:28:44.975 Info Server: http/1.1 GET http://10.100.1.222:8096/emby/Items/220708/Images/Primary?maxHeight=296&maxWidth=525&tag=528f6ea1f2d5fb2ae3994f680a87f57d&quality=90. UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0
2021-08-31 21:28:44.976 Info Server: http/1.1 Response 200 to 10.100.1.4. Time: 2ms. http://10.100.1.222:8096/emby/Items/220707/Images/Primary?maxHeight=296&maxWidth=525&tag=1ed6276834e0285d883d802899780535&quality=90
2021-08-31 21:28:44.976 Debug SqliteItemRepository: Public GetItemLinks
2021-08-31 21:28:44.977 Info Server: http/1.1 GET http://10.100.1.222:8096/emby/Items/220709/Images/Primary?maxHeight=296&maxWidth=525&tag=217527d0f29727d4b721f194204f257f&quality=90. UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0
2021-08-31 21:28:44.977 Debug SqliteItemRepository: Public GetItemLinks
2021-08-31 21:28:44.978 Info Server: http/1.1 Response 200 to 10.100.1.4. Time: 2ms. http://10.100.1.222:8096/emby/Items/220709/Images/Primary?maxHeight=296&maxWidth=525&tag=217527d0f29727d4b721f194204f257f&quality=90
2021-08-31 21:28:44.979 Info Server: http/1.1 Response 200 to 10.100.1.4. Time: 4ms. http://10.100.1.222:8096/emby/Items/220708/Images/Primary?maxHeight=296&maxWidth=525&tag=528f6ea1f2d5fb2ae3994f680a87f57d&quality=90
2021-08-31 21:28:44.980 Debug CoverArt: CoverArt using frame type Season from image set ClearCase for Staffel 1
2021-08-31 21:28:45.222 Info CoverArt: image enhance of Staffel 1 took 0.257 seconds.
2021-08-31 21:28:45.493 Debug ImageProcessor: Image encoding to /volume1/Emby/cache/images/resized-images/1/147a3f6c-9cdd-6b8f-ff4c-963a567277cf.png took 87ms for /volume1/Emby/cache/images/enhanced-images/6/60d1bf0c7b3b5eca3c121511ba790f8d.png
2021-08-31 21:28:45.494 Info Server: http/1.1 Response 200 to 10.100.1.4. Time: 556ms. http://10.100.1.222:8096/emby/Items/220672/Images/Primary?maxHeight=300&maxWidth=300&tag=60d1bf0c7b3b5eca3c121511ba790f8d&quality=90

 

 

 

thx

Matthias

 

 

 

Big Pacific Images.zip

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Okay, the actual image looks correct to me.  So it is the web app that is distorting it - although I'm not sure why in that particular case.

Realize that the option to maintain the aspect ratio maintains it for the original image within whatever treatment is being applied - not for the overall treated image.  The point being that the original art maintains its proper shape.  Which looks like exactly what has happened in this case.

You see how the circle in that call-out on the image is a proper circle in both the original image and the CA treated one?

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yes that circle is a good indicator.  You can see that it isn't proper scaled at the web app?

for me the web app looks mutch better if the setting for CA about the original image aspect ratio ist set to off.

 

thx

Matthias

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6 minutes ago, MatthiasM said:

You can see that it isn't proper scaled at the web app?

 

Yes, the web app is showing it as a square which is odd for a season.  Does this only happen with items with only one season?

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