Local Actor Thumbs?
Perhaps support for local actor thumbs... the pictures online that it usually pulls are often crappy (no offense to you all offnse to the sources). So i usually download actor thumbs locally. however even if i manually edit the nfo files it doesn't

actor thumbs, star and guest star
hi, with the new .actors folders is the actorthumbs dir used to check if the image already exists? subdue rant on why character thumbs are called actor thumbs... In the case of The X-Files, David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson starred for the

MC generates thumbs, some thumbs are not showing up under xbmc library
Does anybody know, how it is possible that MC creates the appropriate nfo and tbn file, but when updating the library for some movies the thumb is not appearing, whilel e.g. the plot shown, manually I can find the correct thumb via xbmc Anybody any

way to update xmbc library
I was thinking it would be nice to be able to update the xbmc library from within media companion. for example... my setup now is that I have two user profiles on my htpc. one called media that is always on, with xbmc up and is attached to the tv. then

[SOLVED] - How do you get Actor Thumbnails to work in TV Shows?
Hi there.... how do the actor thumbnails work? Like whne i scrap a film there is an ".actor" directory created with all this junk in it.... but when I scrap a tv show all teh actor bits in your UI look like 404s Also sorry for posting a few

3.198 Edit Movie (Alternative) -> Add Actor
One area I find MC doesn't handle well is Music Video DVDs (e.g. live concert releases, etc.) as they often aren't in IMDB and you can't point to other sources so I've building a .nfo from blank using the Edit Movie (Alternative) feature. All is workin

Insert <actor> and as role (show) as keyword IPTCs into actor images
Hi Being playing with image and face recognition in picasa, and so thought it'd be interesting to "face match' the images that are downloaded. Then I thought this could be extended to displaying within MC... So first off I parsed (hackily) the

Missing Thumbs, episodes over 99 & Re-Scrape Episodes
I know this has been asked, but can you see a way with the next version of Media Companion to include the following two options: 1). A Sort/Show button for TV Episodes that do not have images. Seems TheTvdb has a lot off issues where I can scrape the

Use with Xbox XBMC (scraping TV\Movies)
First & foremost, EXCELLENT WORK on the app mate! I am in the process of posting a link to this site up on my local xbox forum. i tried the app(1.827) & cant really get it to work properly with TV Shows the way I was hoping. Do the TV Shows nee

Problem with Thumbnails for Files?
First off, I think the media companion is a great start for setting up the XBMC library. I have small problem through, I added a folder and it scraped the movie info correctly from IMDB and saved the nfo and thumbnail files in the respective folder.

v3.230 Actor search does not work
And the description bubble does not pop up. After pressing the actor search it clears the movie list and says displaying 0 (actors name) movies

Animated Thumbs
Could Media Converter take every 5th frame from a scanned movie for the first 40 seconds, crop and scale it to an icon as a .gif or .apng? I've done some experiments with a similar photoshop batch script and had great results. Animated icons, or

Scan for Missing Episodes Thumbs bug
Hi Version 2.229. Tried using the new Scan for Missing Episodes Thumbs feature and got the following error. Episode Found Show Title : Frasier Episode Title : Marching on to Season Two Season No : 0 Episode no : 4 Checking for thumbnail :

v1.997 if there's no thumbnail, saves actor image as the thumbnail
if there's no thumbnail available, it's saving the actor's image as the thumbnail.

How do I get the xbox to rebuild the lib using the separate .nfo's?
How do I get the xbox to rebuild the lib using the separate .nfo's? The only way I know of rebuilding the lib from scratch is to import an xml but I don't have one, all I have is [FileName](year).avi [FileName](year).tbn [FileName](year).nfo So