user29 2 Posted January 13, 2015 Posted January 13, 2015 Hi, I have a folder \\movies\Disney I decided to trial the new "metadata" and set it as Movies (it only has movies in there) When I did this - it now no longer reads my local Folder.jpgs (3 of the movies do - the other 38 do not) I do not want to fetch - I want to user the local folder.jpg as the primary? Any thoughts?
user29 2 Posted January 13, 2015 Author Posted January 13, 2015 In fact its generating a primary images from the net (as I don't have those pictures locally) even though I have ticked no meta data....I am sure it thinks these movies are TV shoes - as it places a directory call meta data in there?
user29 2 Posted January 13, 2015 Author Posted January 13, 2015 Recreated again as movies - still not using the folder.jpg as the primary image
user29 2 Posted January 13, 2015 Author Posted January 13, 2015 Deleting the primary image - then doing a local only refresh - gets a image NOT from the directory.... How do I force it to read the folder.jpg?
ebr 16185 Posted January 13, 2015 Posted January 13, 2015 I think what you are seeing is a symptom of the content not being recognized properly. Can you show us the complete file structure (windows explorer screenshot)?
PeteWhite67 0 Posted January 13, 2015 Posted January 13, 2015 (edited) I'm have almost exactly the same problem, in my case MB is failing to recognise the local "folder.png" image file, instead it shows a thumbnail from the movie file. A screenshot of Windows explorer is below. I use Metabrowser to grab all the movie info/images and Stark Covers to change the folder.jpg to folder.png. Everything except the "folder.png" is recognised. Edited January 13, 2015 by PeteWhite67
ebr 16185 Posted January 13, 2015 Posted January 13, 2015 What happens if you rename it to "poster.png"?
user29 2 Posted January 14, 2015 Author Posted January 14, 2015 (edited) Nothing happens when I change it to folder.png... and do a refresh I deleted ALL meta data - and replaced it. It reads ALL the new data metadata - BUT STILL doesn't read the folder.jpg - Very weird!!!! instead Mine is also grabbing a thumbnail from the movie Not sure how to attach a screen - I will look at the forum and see if I can work it out \\Server\Movie\Disney - In there are 40 odd Disney movies....(all local meta data - all working fine until the latest release) Edited January 14, 2015 by user29
user29 2 Posted January 14, 2015 Author Posted January 14, 2015 Just an update this is ALSO happening in my whole collection with NEW ITEMS - it is not reading the folder.jpg it is creating a thumbnail
ebr 16185 Posted January 14, 2015 Posted January 14, 2015 I said to change it to poster.png. We're going to need to see a log to have more ideas.
Luke 42080 Posted January 14, 2015 Posted January 14, 2015 could you please try the dev server and see if it resolves the issue. thanks.
PeteWhite67 0 Posted January 15, 2015 Posted January 15, 2015 I renamed to "poster.png" and "poster.jpg" and neither worked, neither did installing the latest server dev version. What logs do you want to see? Pete
ebr 16185 Posted January 15, 2015 Posted January 15, 2015 A server log after you add a new item and it shows up in the library. Please also tell us what the item is.
PeteWhite67 0 Posted January 15, 2015 Posted January 15, 2015 Attached is the log file (I think). I added a film called "The Judge". All the metadata and images were downloaded and saved using MetaBrowser. Everything works fine except the "folder.jpg" is not shown and a thumbnail is shown in its place. Pete MBClassic-15120155aa480ce9a7c4aacb513391a5d5d16ee.log
ebr 16185 Posted January 15, 2015 Posted January 15, 2015 I meant the server log but is it possible that MetaBrowser is saving that image as a hidden file?
PeteWhite67 0 Posted January 15, 2015 Posted January 15, 2015 (edited) Oops, I wasn't sure that was the right log, hopefully the one attached now is! The option in MetaBrowser to save as a hidden file is ticked off... Pete Log.txt Edited January 15, 2015 by PeteWhite67
ebr 16185 Posted January 15, 2015 Posted January 15, 2015 Okay, I think I know what is going on here. You have library monitoring turned on in MB and it is seeing you add that item to your library. But you don't use us to fetch metadata so when it goes looking for an image, it isn't there yet because MetaBrowser hasn't downloaded it yet. So, it creates one and attaches it to the item before the other image is ever there. You may need to turn off the library monitoring and just rely on scheduled library scans to pick up new content. Or, just disable the screen grabber for movies so that it won't automatically create an image from the video.
PeteWhite67 0 Posted January 15, 2015 Posted January 15, 2015 Thanks ebr, I tried your suggestions but they didn't work. I've un-installed and re-installed the server and everything seems to be working ok now, although I haven't added any new films to the library yet. I'll let you know if there's any more problems. Pete
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