Library Movies and Box Sets

[adamosborne83]

Hey all, So I have an extensive library of circa 4500 movies, I use The Mobie Database Python as my media scanner for movies.
Now I set up a brand new FireCube3 today and had exactly the same settings as I always do, but I would say out of the 300 box Sets, 60 of them are NOT showing art work.
Even though the movies inside have every thing fine.
See pictures

Now the strange thing is, my other FC3 that's has Fuse on it shows all the boxes, the only difference in anyway shape or form is that this one had Arctic Horizon 2 on it before.

Is it possible for the skin to have any influence over this?

[adamosborne83]

These are my setting for scraper, but, what is interesting is that I've been on Fanart.tv to check, and the collection artwork is not there either.

[adamosborne83]

It's in TMDB artwork, but nothing in English on fanart.tv.

Only other thing I can think of, does tmddbh have any influence? As I have changed some settings in it recently that I didn't mess with whilst using ah2.

[jurialmunkey]

Neither the skin nor TMDbHelper would affect this.

TMDbHelper can't touch the items inside the list and the skin can only use it for things outside the list (e.g. background or clearlogo in info). Anything inside a list's itemlayout has to come from the item's internal metadata (i.e. what was set by the scraper).

There's three main reasons artwork might be blank:

1. Item has no metadata for that artwork -- i.e. no download URL set by scraper for that image type.
2. Item has an image URL but it is invalid -- i.e. no image exists at the URL that was set for that image type.
3. Item has a valid image URL but is still being cached -- i.e. Kodi needs to download and process the image before it can render it.

For the fanart, it could be any of those. However, for the poster, that's definitely missing a URL. That card view will only display that placeholder text if Art(Poster) does not contain a URL.

Given that the poster is missing, I suspect that the fanart is also missing. Weird that the scraper got a clearlogo though.

My guess is something changed in the scraper and it no longer correctly falls back to using TMDb when FanartTV doesn't have anything. Likely on your old machine, the scrape was done before that change, hence why you've got artwork there.

[adamosborne83]

Yea that was my thoughts too. But, see video attached, is it normal for fanart to show up on collection back ground, but nothing in the part where to select.
It must be getting something from somewhere.
I would had expected to see something on kodi if it was their scraper error.

firetv_2023-11-15_06_54_22.mp4

[jurialmunkey]

Background is using TMDbHelper as a fallback.

[adamosborne83]

Thanks for that, means I now need to go into TMDB and download 300 posters etc and manually set them all.... going to be a longgggg day.
Cheers for the discussion, 😉 see I do listen occasionally.

[adamosborne83]

Also, tried to rescrape with Universal Mobie Scraper, that has every artwork in the world, but nothing for box Sets... something fishy going on