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Hack that enables root access to the Boxee Box, provides a new updated Skin with some improved features, and a number of services to access the box such as telnet access
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Request: Automated Fanart #352

Open robnz09 opened 11 years ago

robnz09 commented 11 years ago

I absolutely love what you guys are doing! It's awesome and has re-inspired my use of Boxee.

I love the new fanart functionality, but find that searching for and saving fanart is time consuming and therefore not something I bother with.

Would be great if there was an easier way and you were able to build in automated fanart functionality. I noticed on another thread that Hessius proposed the solution below.

Thanks for all your work on this!

hessius commented 2 days ago

I've been giving this some thought. Been trying with EMM and ViMM but I still can't manage to collect fanart for more than approximately 50 % of my movies. As of 1.4 fanart is more emphasized and movies lacking fan art seem incomplete.

So I've been checking out TMDB - http://tmdb.org - which seems to have quite HQ (at least 720p) backdrops of all random movies I tried (from hollywood blockbusters to a black and white british film and a norwegian movie (and its sequel I didn't know about))

What also struck me was the (seemingly) very easy API - http://docs.themoviedb.apiary.io

Would it be possible to add a JSONP call to tmdb if no fanart.jpg is found? If found on tmdb the image could either be added to the movie folder (probably hard) or added to the cache and/or and external drive. If nothing is found on TMDB it could just display the background.

Should be possible by first searching by name to get the id of the movie: http://docs.themoviedb.apiary.io/#get-%2F3%2Fsearch%2Fmovie And then grabbing images: http://docs.themoviedb.apiary.io/#get-%2F3%2Fmovie%2F%7Bid%7D%2Fimages FIlters for vote or dimensions could probably be added

saragusa commented 11 years ago

+1. I agree.

langluc commented 11 years ago

+1. I agree.

Kepners commented 11 years ago

UpVote. I too Agree.

tobbewilson commented 11 years ago

I agree as well! However, in the meantime i have been looking at MediaElch which actually does a really good job finding pictures and can also save them as "fanart".

hessius commented 11 years ago

Just for reference, this is a duplicate of the (closed) #23 (which is where the aforementioned comment was left)

adambiggs commented 11 years ago

+1

cryptdlg commented 11 years ago

+1

coroners commented 11 years ago

Been adding a lot of fanart and made my own for a lot of movies myself and this feature if made possible would be great.

junkuhn commented 11 years ago

I would like to recomend MediaElch for this. It's kinda tedious when you have 300+ movies, but I think it's doing a really great job. I've had two maybe three movies where there's wasn't any fanart only cover art.

Nice demo here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BJCjvDCK5E

Download here: http://www.mediaelch.de/download/ (not a german link)

ZeFish commented 11 years ago

For mac user... http://vidalvanbergen.github.com/ViMediaManager/

Grill-B commented 11 years ago

If you use www.mediacentermaster.com it fixes automatic fanart download and automatic subs and folder.jpg and nfo and.. Just check it out, it works fine with boxee :) just mark all movies and fetch.

dcoleman5423 commented 11 years ago

I would love to have something so I would not have to put each of my movies in its own folder and have to also make or download houndreds of Fanart for each of them. @Grill-B I just downloaded MediaCenterMaster to check it out.

dcoleman5423 commented 11 years ago

@Grill-B www.mediacentermaster.com

Worked good for me. It saved me tones of time than me trying to make a folder and make covers and fanart one by one. This is two thumbs up for me.

colby-makowsky commented 11 years ago

+1 ViMediaManager http://mariusth.channelwood.org/vimediamanager/