Very low quality of Thumbnails on Mezzmo Kodi-plugin on Android TV Box

[jbinkley60]

I did it and it just downloaded the thumbnail once again in the same size 213x320..
What actually happened? I feel like I need to do a reinstall of the whole Server.

It does not even matter if I download the thumbnails, or if I use the thumbnails from my Kodi backup, because it just scales them down for some reason.
I even tested it with paint, I drew some lines on one of my Kodi thumbnails, and then imported it. And yes, it got scaled down to again 213x320.. always that same number.
Not one of my Thumbnail Sizes (small, medium, large) have that size. So where does that number come from?


EDIT: Good news! After changing the Poster image sizes in "Streaming" at Options, it now at least in my appdata folder saves the thumbnails as the full size 480x720 files!!!
BUT.. on my TV Box it still is blurry and not full size, instead still some kind of down scaled version. I don't understand where that is coming from.

Probably the device profile for Kodi bringing them down to 360x360. Did you make the edit device profile change recommended above ? Peter will be around later and will be able to sort it out, if the profile change doesn't fix it.


Jeff

[Undertaker555]

I tried it, and did everything very clean.
I edited the profile according to this post:

http://forum.conceiva.com/showthread...3851#post23851

Obviously I went into the Kodi file and not to the Samsung.
The file in my appdata is full size, all normal. In Mezzmo itself it seems like the file is also high resoultion and fine.
But then in Kodi > Mezzmo Addon it is still the 320x320 version, even though I replaced the 320x320 with 720x720.

I will be very thankful if we can solve this.

Thank you very much already.

[jbinkley60]

I tried it, and did everything very clean.
I edited the profile according to this post:

http://forum.conceiva.com/showthread...3851#post23851

Obviously I went into the Kodi file and not to the Samsung.
The file in my appdata is full size, all normal. In Mezzmo itself it seems like the file is also high resoultion and fine.
But then in Kodi > Mezzmo Addon it is still the 320x320 version, even though I replaced the 320x320 with 720x720.

I will be very thankful if we can solve this.

Thank you very much already.

Ok. I've had some time to think about this and need to remind myself you are running outside of the addon and in Kodi natively. Due to that things operate a bit differently. My ask is first go into the Mezzmo Kodi addon and browse your library and see if the thumbnails look right there since these will be real time from Mezzmo and not via Kodi and the background sync process. This will tell us if we are dealing with a thumbnail size issue or how the sync process handles thumbnail changes (or Kodi caching).

Second, can you tell me the naming convention on a thumbnail file ? I don't run thumbnails so I don't know if they have a consistent naming convention or a random naming convention that ties the movie to the file in the Mezzmo thumbnail database. Depending on the here will determine how fast the sync process would catch a change in the thumbnail resolution size.


Jeff

[Peter]

In Options under streaming is the size for all devices, Mezzmo will save the original posters in this size. For each device there is a poster size defined in the profile and Mezzmo will resize the posters to fit within this size. The JPEG_TN size in the Kodi profile is 320x320 so the posters will be resized to fit within this. To make the posters larger you will need to increase this size in the profile then save it and restart your Mezzmo Media Server to reload the profile. Then you will need to go to the Kodi device in Media Devices and on the Transcoding tab click the button to delete transcoded files so that the old small posters are re-transcoded to the larger size from the profile.

[Undertaker555]

Hi Peter!
Thanks for the reply.

That is exactly what I did before.. BUT somehow the profile reset itself to Generic Device (NTSC) before, without me noticing it...
So I set it again to Kodi, and repeated what you said.
And now? Now it works!!!

Finally I can add my whole media.


EDIT: Btw. it resets itself quite often back to "Generic Device (NTSC)". I really need to be careful, and always set it back to "Kodi". Why is that?
EDIT 2: Found the solution there, too! It was because I "Reset Mezzmo Database...", and it resets the Device Profile, too! So always when resetting the Mezzmo Database, it will reset the Device Profile, too!

[jbinkley60]

Hi Peter!
Thanks for the reply.

That is exactly what I did before.. BUT somehow the profile reset itself to Generic Device (NTSC) before, without me noticing it...
So I set it again to Kodi, and repeated what you said.
And now? Now it works!!!

Finally I can add my whole media.


EDIT: Btw. it resets itself quite often back to "Generic Device (NTSC)". I really need to be careful, and always set it back to "Kodi". Why is that?
EDIT 2: Found the solution there, too! It was because I "Reset Mezzmo Database...", and it resets the Device Profile, too! So always when resetting the Mezzmo Database, it will reset the Device Profile, too!

Yes, this is because the Media Devices settings (device profiles) are stored in the Mezzmo database in the MGODevices table. Glad you found the answer..


Jeff