Completed Support reading .actors folder within movie folder for images of people

[hurricanehrndz 149]

I was wondering if the metadata scraper or library scanner could scan a .actors folder within each movie to populate it imagesbyname folder.

[Luke 42078]

yea its a good  idea

[Dez_Lamar 10]

Any

update on this happening

[Happy2Play 9780]

It is a good idea, but Emby is now adding the tmdb providerid to person name in people folder to allow for same name actors.  So how would your .actor folder accommodate for this?  I really have no idea how the .actor folder is generated, but can assume with a lot of the same concept as Emby is currently using as it is coming from TMDB item metadata.  But are .actor folder just by name actors?  So how is a same named actors suppose to be handled?

[Dez_Lamar 10]

Is the peoplebackup plugin ever going to update so i can restore my actors from the .actors folder

 

[Happy2Play 9780]

7 minutes ago, TallBoiDez said:

Is the peoplebackup plugin ever going to update so i can restore my actors from the .actors folder

 

It may but that is up to the dev that created it.

 

[Dez_Lamar 10]

This is pretty upsetting i worked hard to add actor images

[gillmacca01 211]

5 hours ago, Happy2Play said:

It is a good idea, but Emby is now adding the tmdb providerid to person name in people folder to allow for same name actors.  So how would your .actor folder accommodate for this?  I really have no idea how the .actor folder is generated, but can assume with a lot of the same concept as Emby is currently using as it is coming from TMDB item metadata.  But are .actor folder just by name actors?  So how is a same named actors suppose to be handled?

Sorry to hijack this thread, but a quick question.

If an actor is not on tmbd, but is on imdb, can I add the imdb id (example: john smith imdb111154)?

I know Emby does not really use imdb, but this is for manually adding actor images

[Happy2Play 9780]

1 hour ago, gillmacca01 said:

Sorry to hijack this thread, but a quick question.

If an actor is not on tmbd, but is on imdb, can I add the imdb id (example: john smith imdb111154)?

I know Emby does not really use imdb, but this is for manually adding actor images

Good question as that is what I do when I come across them, but in reality don't know if they will ever be used in say a rebuild as the metadata gotten for the item will have no match.  @Lukedoes that sound right?

[pünktchen 1409]

8 hours ago, TallBoiDez said:

Is the peoplebackup plugin ever going to update so i can restore my actors from the .actors folder

Yes, it will be updated.

[olympus1 46]

On 5/31/2021 at 5:47 AM, Happy2Play said:

It is a good idea, but Emby is now adding the tmdb providerid to person name in people folder to allow for same name actors. 

Awesome, can't wait this way of people folder organizing to work without relying to online scrapers and only with nfos.

As far as I understand it will work without online scrapers when Emby adds the feature to parse the tmdbid from actor tags of the nfo files?

Edited June 2, 2021 by olympus1

[Dez_Lamar 10]

On 5/31/2021 at 6:57 AM, pünktchen said:

Yes, it will be updated.

@pünktchen thanks, I and everyone that's uses this plugin really appreciate this and all the hard work you do. 

[Dez_Lamar 10]

@pünktchen is there a status update on the people backup plugin

[Luke 42078]

Emby Server 4.8 will support the .actors folder in a read-only fashion, meaning it will be able to use images from the .actors folder underneath a series or movie folder. The Emby Server database is still the same as before, meaning it's still one image per actor. That means if you have an actor that appears in multiple movies or series, it will be one shared image that is used in all places, and it will be whichever one happens to get scanned in first. But this will allow for basic support of the .actors folder convention.