Cover Art plugin

[blgentry 49]

Yes.  I removed the plugin, restarted Emby.  Added the plugin, restarted Emby.  My settings were retained. Including preserve aspect ratio.  I did a few tests, then downloaded the log and posted it here.

 

If there's something else I should try, please let me know.

 

Thanks,

Brian.

[blgentry 49]

For reference here are some examples of what Air Force One looks like with Case, Clear Case, and Side Case.

 

 

 

I hope the aspect change is obvious from these examples.

Thanks again,

Brian.

Edited August 30, 2023 by blgentry

[Luke 37095]

Can you provide a new log example after having removed cover art? Thanks.

[ebr 14923]

1 hour ago, Luke said:

Can you provide a new log example after having removed cover art? Thanks.

He reinstalled it again.  He's trying to get CoverArt treatments but with the original art aspect.

@blgentryplease try refreshing one of those items with the "replace images" option.  Alternatively, you can delete the "enhanced-images" folder under your image cache on the server.

[blgentry 49]

Here's a log with CoverArt removed.

 

Brian.

embyserver-nocoverart_plugin.txt

[blgentry 49]

1 hour ago, ebr said:

@blgentryplease try refreshing one of those items with the "replace images" option.  Alternatively, you can delete the "enhanced-images" folder under your image cache on the server.

I just did the following:
 

1.  Deleted emby-server/cache/images/enhanced-images

2.  Reinstalled Cover Art Plugin.

3.  Restarted Emby server

4. Changed to "Side Case" style.  Observed an aspect ratio problem.

5.  Refreshed metadata with "replace images" on Air Force One.

6.  Changed case style back and forth and observed the aspect problem.

In process I lost my chosen cover art.  It pulled down some sort of automatic selection for this title.  I replaced that with the image I like. Then I tried changing case styles again and still saw the aspect ratio problem.

 

Let me know if there's something else I should do.

 

Brian.

[vaise 307]

I want to differentiate dolby video from normal 4k content.  Emby knows, so I want different covers.

I posted this :

 

Is it doable ?

[ebr 14923]

20 hours ago, blgentry said:

I just did the following:
 

1.  Deleted emby-server/cache/images/enhanced-images

2.  Reinstalled Cover Art Plugin.

3.  Restarted Emby server

4. Changed to "Side Case" style.  Observed an aspect ratio problem.

5.  Refreshed metadata with "replace images" on Air Force One.

6.  Changed case style back and forth and observed the aspect problem.

In process I lost my chosen cover art.  It pulled down some sort of automatic selection for this title.  I replaced that with the image I like. Then I tried changing case styles again and still saw the aspect ratio problem.

 

Let me know if there's something else I should do.

 

Brian.

And you are positive you turned on this option in the profile that is being used for this item?

Do you see any difference at all if you uncheck it?

 

[ebr 14923]

17 hours ago, vaise said:

Is it doable ?

Not without you physically separating those items such that you could use a CA profile to treat them differently - or I guess use tags for a specific cover.  However, there are no DV-aware covers or options at this time.  Its on our list for future enhancements.

[blgentry 49]

7 minutes ago, ebr said:

And you are positive you turned on this option in the profile that is being used for this item?

 

Do you see any difference at all if you uncheck it?

 

I just double checked and it was set.  I unchecked and rechecked the option and tested.  It still squashes the aspect.  I only have one Cover Art plugin profile:  default.

Have you tested this feature?  Does it work on your system?

 

Thanks,

Brian.

Edited August 31, 2023 by blgentry

[ebr 14923]

Okay, sorry for the runaround.  I think I know what is going on here.  It is actually the app that is distorting your images in order to make them uniform.  If you find the actual original images in the "enhanced-images" folder in your image cache, you should find that the aspect is correct. 

[blgentry 49]

2 hours ago, ebr said:

It is actually the app that is distorting your images in order to make them uniform.  If you find the actual original images in the "enhanced-images" folder in your image cache, you should find that the aspect is correct. 

Does this suggest some sort of action to fix it?

 

At the moment I'm pretty happy with the "case" and "box set" treatments, neither of which do an aspect change.  I would welcome the opportunity to test the other cases if and when this issue gets fixed.

 

Thanks,

Brian.

[Luke 37095]

34 minutes ago, blgentry said:

Does this suggest some sort of action to fix it?

 

At the moment I'm pretty happy with the "case" and "box set" treatments, neither of which do an aspect change.  I would welcome the opportunity to test the other cases if and when this issue gets fixed.

 

Thanks,

Brian.

Right now it’s not something that’s easily changed, so we’re bouncing around ideas.

[Multiverse 4]

Hi,

 

I just detected that the collection poster doesn't show the "disc counter" if there are more than 3 movies inside it. Is it a bug or is there any option I have to activate?

 

Thanks a lot!

[GrimReaper 3308]

50 minutes ago, Multiverse said:

Hi,

 

I just detected that the collection poster doesn't show the "disc counter" if there are more than 3 movies inside it. Is it a bug or is there any option I have to activate?

 

Thanks a lot!

Sorry not following, having no issues showing 6 discs (max) on 6(+) items collections? Which server version? 

[blgentry 49]

My collections seem to show the number of movies in each collection with one cd image on top of the poster per movie.  This works up to 6 for me.  My one collection with 7 (Harry Potter) does not work though.  It shows 5 cds for some reason.  I'm using the "Case CD" treatment.  It might be different for others.  In fact, I only turned that on a minute ago to test.  I'm turning it back off because it's not my thing visually.  I just posted to give some data.

 

Brian.

[Multiverse 4]

My actual server version is 4.8.0.46 Beta,  and my Treatment for BoxSets is MetroCaseCDs!

Edited September 14, 2023 by Multiverse

[blgentry 49]

On 9/9/2023 at 10:31 AM, ebr said:

Okay, sorry for the runaround.  I think I know what is going on here.  It is actually the app that is distorting your images in order to make them uniform.  If you find the actual original images in the "enhanced-images" folder in your image cache, you should find that the aspect is correct. 

I'm not sure how I'm supposed to find a particular image in the enhanced images cache directory.  They all have random file names and do not appear to be in any order I can figure out.  But let's move past that.

 

The web app shows the same distortion.  The native Mac desktop app shows it.  The Android app shows it.   So does the IOS app.  Strangely, it seems like the AndroidTV app actually shows the correct aspect ratio.  So are all of the apps I listed "broken"?

 

Thanks,

Berian.

[ebr 14923]

1 hour ago, blgentry said:

So are all of the apps I listed "broken"?

No they are not broken.  As mentioned previously, they are adjusting the display to be uniform.  The Android TV app uses a native presentation that allows different aspect items in the same row.  Most of the other presentations don't work well with that so they normalize them if they are very close.

1 hour ago, blgentry said:

it seems like the AndroidTV app actually shows the correct aspect ratio

This proves that it is not CoverArt distorting the images.

[blgentry 49]

So what is the answer here?  The apps are doing their best, but are all still wrong?

 

It sounds like perhaps this doesn't matter to the developers or to very many other people.  I'll just leave this alone now.  I'l bring it back up if there's something that really impacts my Emby experience.

 

Brian.

[Luke 37095]

On 10/7/2023 at 11:04 AM, blgentry said:

So what is the answer here?  The apps are doing their best, but are all still wrong?

 

It sounds like perhaps this doesn't matter to the developers or to very many other people.  I'll just leave this alone now.  I'l bring it back up if there's something that really impacts my Emby experience.

 

Brian.

The client apps would have to add their own options to never stretch to fill images into their containers.

[blgentry 49]

3 minutes ago, Luke said:

The client apps would have to add their own options to never stretch to fill images into their containers.

...and is that not a desirable behavior?  Both you and EBR keep referring to the apps as if they are not something you control.  Perhaps I'm simply misinterpreting your meaning, but it seems like you are both saying you can't change it, which confuses me since they are Emby products.  Perhaps it's just a very low priority?  I'm open to the idea that I'm on the only Emby user that might care, but even that is quite surprising.

 

Thanks,

Brian.

[Luke 37095]

42 minutes ago, blgentry said:

Perhaps it's just a very low priority?

Hi ,yes this is how I would describe it. The problem that you're seeing is that Emby apps will generally stretch images into their contains so that everything looks uniform. Without that you end up seeing something like this:

Notice how the second and third one don't fill. So the vast majority of the time this stretching is desirable behavior. The only exception is that sometimes there are certain cover art treatments where you may not want this.

[blgentry 49]

I'm advocating for scaling and cropping an image rather than a non-proportional stretch.  What do you think of that?

 

Thanks,

Brian.

[roaku 795]

1 hour ago, blgentry said:

I'm advocating for scaling and cropping an image rather than a non-proportional stretch.  What do you think of that?

 

Thanks,

Brian.

I think that might lead to more of these complaints: