Can't find Artwork?

[bigdog]

We have built Mezzmo so it gets a thumbnail from the Movie file and not from the internet. This feature is only for the audio files. I will add it to our todo list.

Adric,

Yes my movies all now display "thumbnails" which was updated yesterday when I used "Maintain Your Mezzmo Library"
-- must assume that the video file name must agree to the standard video file name (I check my file names with IMDb) where I assume that mismatches will not update!
-- I can only assumed that this happened because I ticked "Get Artwork from the Internet

I can only assume the "thumbnails" can also be described as "artwork"

[MSIMaker]

bigdog I think you will find the thumbnails are just a single frame out of the film itself as Adric has stated.

The name doesn't matter at all actually......rename a film and you will see what i mean.

If you do the manual way through properties the function is different in that it goes out to the net to find the movie poster from impawards.

[bigdog]

bigdog I think you will find the thumbnails are just a single frame out of the film itself as Adric has stated.

The name doesn't matter at all actually......rename a film and you will see what i mean.

If you do the manual way through properties the function is different in that it goes out to the net to find the movie poster from impawards.

I have both "thumbnails" and the "movie covers .jpg files"

My mezzmo update of the movie covers rather than a thumbnail of first frame of move must of been because many of my video files have the .jpg cover files with matching video file names
eg; avatar (2009).mkv and avatar (2009).jpg

Looks like Mezzmo creates thumbnails and does not get the movie covers!

Adric what does "get artwork from internet" mean?

John

[MSIMaker]

I have both "thumbnails" and the "movie covers .jpg files"

My mezzmo update of the movie covers rather than a thumbnail of first frame of move must of been because many of my video files have the .jpg cover files with matching video file names
eg; avatar (2009).mkv and avatar (2009).jpg

Looks like Mezzmo creates thumbnails and does not get the movie covers!

Adric what does "get artwork from internet" mean?

John

John you are absolutely correct in your case!!!

I just did a test in my virtual machine and if you have a jpg in the folder with your movie and it is the same name then mezzmo will use it as the artwork....excellent.

The get artwork feature which you can do manually on each file just goes out to the impawards site and finds the movie poster based on the filename....its a bit hit and miss but you can edit the search name when you do it so its a bit more precise.

I don't mind doing it manually actually because I can pick the best looking artwork.....its just time consuming

[bigdog]

Why does mezzmo not get the artwork movie cover when I use the option to "Maintain your Mezzmo Library" & Tick "get artwork from internet"?

In Mezzmo, for individual video files, I can right click the movie file and using <properties>, I can click [Get Internet Artwork] which gets artwork movie cover for my library?
-- this updates my Mezzmo library!

Why can Mezzmo not automatically get using the option to "Maintain your Mezzmo Library" & Tick "get artwork from internet"?

[MSIMaker]

Why does mezzmo not get the artwork movie cover when I use the option to "Maintain your Mezzmo Library" & Tick "get artwork from internet"?

In Mezzmo, for individual video files, I can right click the movie file and using <properties>, I can click [Get Internet Artwork] which gets artwork movie cover for my library?
-- this updates my Mezzmo library!

Why can Mezzmo not automatically get using the option to "Maintain your Mezzmo Library" & Tick "get artwork from internet"?

There are 2 different processes.

Maintain my library only scans a frame out of the movie as artwork. The manual Get Internet Artwork actually goes to the internet and downloads it manually.

Adric said they are adding it to the wishlist. We are stuck with adding manually for now.

[KWS53]

Apart from Cover art [which I have less of a problem with than many], I'm more concerned with the menu system which is tedious and doesn't use the video screen effectively. Any idea if we will see something that resembles XBMC or dedicted media streaming devices?

I'm currently trialing the software and I need to make a decision whether to stay with a Samsung/Mezzmo solution or migrate to a dedicted streaming device.

Kurt