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jellyfin / jellyfin-plugin-anidb

This plugin adds the metadata provider for aniDB to Jellyfin
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feature request: implement image fetching from thetvdb/fanart #51

Open fredrik-eriksson opened 1 year ago

fredrik-eriksson commented 1 year ago

Background is this jellyfin issue. TL;DR: Combining the anidb plugin with TheTVDB can cause some watched-state woes between seasons.

The primary reason I want to enable the tvdb-plugin is so that I can get the pretty banners/backdrops/logos etc. that it can fetch for the series. If this plugin could be updated to fetch images from the same sources (thetvdb.com and fanart.tv) there would be no need to enable TheTVDB. I'm guessing it should be fairly easy to implement using the anime-lists as a mapping.

nalsai commented 1 year ago

I think that could be implemented, if there was someone with the time and motivation to do it. Although I don't know if getting data from outside of anidb should be done in the anidb plugin.

Maybe there could also be a stripped down thetvdb image plugin that only gets images and does not set the id. That seems even easier, as you would just need to remove some code from the thetvdb plugin. However it certainly wouldn't be an officially supported plugin.

One solution I can give you without changing any code would be to enable "Ignore Season" in the anidb plugin settings on your server. Then you can move seasons into "Season x" subfolder and still get metadata from anidb, while not having the issue with an episode in multiple different anidb seasons being considered the same.

Example: KanoKari/file - E01.mkv KanoKari 2/Season 2/file - E01.mkv alternative: KanoKari/file - S02E01.mkv

Personally, I just live with only having the one image from anidb and ScreenGrabber for episode images.