using relative image paths in NFO, kodi migration

[treason 11]

Hey All,

 

I'm making an offline "kodi media player" for use in my car. To do this, I'm copying some movie folders to an External HDD, then I will attach the HDD to a raspberry pi running LibreElec. Since this is an offline install, the kodi sync plugin won't work. I plan on just using kodi's native metadata service to pick up the content from the HDD.

 

Unfortunately, most of my imagery is not picked up by kodi. I guess the naming conventions are different? For example the kodi wiki says it's fanart.jpg, not backdrop.jpg

 

Nevertheless, I looked at the XML in the nfo file, and noticed they are all using absolute paths.

  <art>
    <poster>E:\Movies\Kids\A Christmas Story (1983)\folder.jpg</poster>
    <fanart>E:\Movies\Kids\A Christmas Story (1983)\backdrop.jpg</fanart>
    <fanart>E:\Movies\Kids\A Christmas Story (1983)\backdrop1.jpg</fanart>
    <fanart>E:\Movies\Kids\A Christmas Story (1983)\backdrop2.jpg</fanart>
    <fanart>E:\Movies\Kids\A Christmas Story (1983)\backdrop3.jpg</fanart>
    <fanart>E:\Movies\Kids\A Christmas Story (1983)\backdrop4.jpg</fanart>
  </art>

Why not <poster>folder.jpg</poster>? Are relative paths bad for emby, would relative paths work in kodi? Is there a way to bulk edit the xml to use relative paths?

 

Any tips to make emby produce metadata that is totally compliant with kodi?

 

Thanks

 

[Luke 42080]

I didn't realize relative was supported. it's something that could be looked at for a future update. thanks.

[treason 11]

I don't know if relative paths are supported, I'll post back once I confirm

[treason 11]

Relative paths made no difference, had to rename the artwork:

 

To make the media folders compatible with kodi, you need to

 

Movies:

duplicate folder.jpg to videoname-poster.jpg

duplicate backdrop.jpg to fanart.jpg

 

TV:

duplicate backdrop.jpg to fanart.jpg

duplicate folder.jpg to poster.jpg

season/folder.jpg to season1-poster.jpg in tv show root

from season/metadata to season/filename-thumb.jpg

[Luke 42080]

Thanks for the feedback.

[sualfred 677]

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Emby already uses the correct names for videos:

 

Movies:

- banner.jpg

- clearart.png

- disc.png

- fanart.jpg

- landscape.jpg

- logo.png

- poster.png

 

Shows:

- banner.jpg

- clearart.png

- disc.png

- fanart.jpg

- landscape.jpg

- logo.png

- poster.png

- season%i-poster.jpg

- %epsiodefilename-thumb.jpg

 

Extrafanarts (no native support by Kodi yet, but skins can access them via various methods)

- %folder/extrafanart/fanart%i.jpg

Edited June 11, 2017 by sualfred

[Luke 42080]

?

Emby already uses the correct names for videos:

 

Movies:

- banner.jpg

- clearart.png

- disc.png

- fanart.jpg

- landscape.jpg

- logo.png

- poster.png

 

Shows:

- banner.jpg

- clearart.png

- disc.png

- fanart.jpg

- landscape.jpg

- logo.png

- poster.png

- season%i-poster.jpg

- %epsiodefilename-thumb.jpg

 

Extrafanarts (no native support by Kodi yet, but skins can access them via various methods)

- %folder/extrafanart/fanart%i.jpg

 

Yea we do use correct names. It sounds like he has some old mediabrowser 2 metadata files hanging around.