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Hi,

 

one of the features that I found useful in Plex was that it populated the art work atuomatically when you included home videos. I don't seem to have worked out whether Emby can do th esame. Is it the case?

 

Cheers

Antonio

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For any video that doesn't have an artwork image we will take a screen grab and use that as a cover. is that what you mean?

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When you say "we" I assume you mean that the user has to manually take a screen grab and add the image to the video under "Edit images". I know this and have started doing for a couple of videos but what I mean is that Plex actually takes a frame automatically from the video and assigns that to the video art of that video (no manual intervention).

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Happy2Play

Emby should do the same.  Do you have these image settings?

 

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Note also in Happy's screen shot above that he has selected "Home Videos"  in the top field labeled "Customize for media type".

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Ok,

 

this may be the problem. Mine is slightly different. I've just swapped the order under "Metadata readers" but Iàm missing the "Emby xml" under "Metadata Savers". I suppose this is why its not working?

 

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Ok, here you go. I was expecting to see screengrabs here automagically installed. Plex does do this and it is a handy feature when you have hundreds of home videos ...

 

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The media folder that video is in is designated as type "Home Videos" and not "Movies" or "Unset" right...?

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Chaps, thanks. Seems resolved now. I think that initially it was that  I had "Nfo" priority over "Emby Xml" under Metadata Readers. Now that I have refreshed as Luke suggested, the artwork is starting to appear. Another point to Emby. Well done chaps. Plex is slowly fading away in my memories ... ;-)

 

Ebr, yes, it is in the Home VIdeo type.

 

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Well done, although it's not due to nfo/xml. You are perfectly fine with nfo-only and in fact nfo is recommended. I think the real answer is just the refreshing of content.

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You may be right. I'll find out as i've set it back to Nfo. I noticed that the engine it doesn't create artwork for videos with a MJPEG codec but it does work for H264. Quite strangely it was working a few days ago. But I'll start a new thread elsewhere if I need help.

 

Cheers

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