Auto-Generated Thumbnails Stretched

[Anim_Tech 0]

Hello,

We're using Emby to display large libraries of original content, so no posters or meta-data exist online.

That being the case, the auto-generation of the poster image using "screen grabber" has been very useful for us in the past.

 

Problem: The screen grabber is capturing landscape (16:9) images of the media and displaying them portrait in the media browser view. (see screenshots)

Interestingly, the thumbnail for the collections themselves show un-stretched auto-gen posters. (See second screenshot)

 

We're running the most recent version of Emby Server on a Windows 10 VM - accessing the web interface through Chrome.

 

Thank you for your time!

 

 

[Luke 42080]

Hi, can you please show the entire screen contents? thanks.

[Anim_Tech 0]

Sure,

Just a note some films have had their posters manually updated so do not show the stretching issue.

[Luke 42080]

I think they will look a little bit better with the upcoming 3.6 release, but even still, movie posters are expected to be 2:3 aspect ratio, so it still will probably not look great.

[Happy2Play 9782]

@@Luke

With as many complaints this gets wouldn't it be better to not display a image at all?  

 

@@Anim_Tech

 

What is the actual name of the image?  Is the screen grabber making a poster.ext? 

[Luke 42080]

It's the primary image though. Ignoring it would probably cause even more issues.

[Anim_Tech 0]

@@Happy2Play - It is generating 'media file name'-poster.jpg images. They are 600x336 px. I have "save artwork into media folders" enabled. 

 

It's interesting to me that the posters appear to be cropped - not squished - in the thumbnail generated for the "media library" collections in the first screenshot of my second post (apologies if i'm using the wrong terminology)

 

Perhaps this cropping logic could be applied to the auto-gen movie posters as well - to make them fit the 2:3 aspect ratio expected.

 

Thank you both so much for your responses,

Jonny