Foreign Language Covers Not Showing

[dannymichel 104]

how do i get foreign language covers to show. whenever its a foreign language cover it just doesn't show a cover

[Luke 42079]

Hi there, can you please discuss an example? How have you configured the metadata settings for your library?

[dannymichel 104]

these are foreign movies.

 

they have no images because the images are foreign but when i edit images and click the non english option i can download one and set it.

i dont want to have to do that

 

[Luke 42079]

The metadata settings in the library let you configure your preferred image language. did you check to see what posters MovieDb has available in that language?

[dannymichel 104]

yes ive done both those things

what im saying is i dont want to have to manually check every time

i need it to just use whatever language it has a poster for

[Veggav 8]

On 1/18/2020 at 11:50 PM, dannymichel said:

yes ive done both those things

what im saying is i dont want to have to manually check every time

i need it to just use whatever language it has a poster for

 

Have you ever found a solution to this?

I'm facing the exact same problem. 

[Luke 42079]

1 minute ago, Veggav said:

 

Have you ever found a solution to this?

I'm facing the exact same problem. 

Hi there, can you please describe your issue in more detail? Thanks.

[Veggav 8]

1 hour ago, Luke said:

Hi there, can you please describe your issue in more detail? Thanks.

Hi Luke,

 

So the problem is that, no matter what setting you set for your library in "Preferred image download language", as you can only set 1 language the result is that for foreign movies (that is movies that do not have an english release) it will result in no cover art (this means no primary cover) and you get a extracted thumbnail as the previews user posted the screenshots.

 

To remedy this, you need to go to this particular movie with a extracted thumbnail (and this movie is actually identified and have the correct metadata fetched from themoviedb):

1. click on 3 dots

2. Edit images

3. Click on primary

4.Enable all languages

5. Select one of the cover art available. 

 

You can test it yourself, make a file with the name App (2013).mkv and try to add this to your library.

Here the moviedb link for it:

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/179053-app

 

Or Attack of the Robots (1966).mkv

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/28281-cartes-sur-table

 

or Avalanche (1978).mkv

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/166680-avalanche

 

Those are some examples that result in the mentioned problem. 

[Luke 42079]

Right so if you configure greek as your image language, and moviedb doesn't have an image in greek, then you won't get an image. does that answer your question?

[Veggav 8]

6 minutes ago, Luke said:

Right so if you configure greek as your image language, and moviedb doesn't have an image in greek, then you won't get an image. does that answer your question?

 

Almost answers it.

I believe that like many users the vast majority of movies are in English and are american movies, so the desired cover art would be in English or the user native language. 

If you select English and there is no cover art in English you won't get a primary cover. 

If you don't select anything but emby is using the system language, in my case in English, and the movie doesn't have a cover in English you won't get a primary cover. 

 

If I select Portuguese and that particular movie doesn't have a cover in Portuguese, I won't get a cover art. 

 

But the ideal solution would be, as mentioned by the previews user in this thread that, using English as an example:

If English is selected (or the language Emby is using) and there's no cover art in English, do not extract a thumbnail, just use whatever is available, which in the vast majority of that I see here will be the original movie language cover art. 

This is true for every bollywood, Indian movie, for anyone that's not using Indian language in Emby, just to point another example. 

 

To my understanding, extracting a thumbnail should be the last resource of cover art.