How To:Box covers in your sources

**jeckle** · December 17th, 2008, 08:04 PM

not sure if this was posted before, but i stumbled apon this by accident. Im currently using windows vista home to store my videos that i rip (legally! hahaha). I was able to have the box covers show up in boxee when im looking through in sources.

If you want to learn how to hook up a windows source, i made a guide -- serach this forum for windows source.

1. download the boxcover of a movie you have ripped. the best source for this imho is amazon. i go to amazon, type in the name of the dvd and just drop and drag the picture or boxcover they use into the folder of my video. so most videos are like <folder name> and inside the folder it has a video and audio ts folder. i place the graphic in there and call it boxcover.jpg.

2. once i have the boxcover in the directory, i right click on the folder and go to properties.

3. click on customize tab

4. look for folder image and click on 'choose a file'

** make sure that Also apply this template to all subfolders it NOT checked. unless you really want to :P

5. find the boxcover.jpg file you created in step 1 and choose it.

** on my machine the folder image did not refresh and i had to refresh by using disk cleanup utility and deleted "thumbnails" it took some time and then it showed up in vista.

Thats all you need to do, now when you go back into boxee and go to sources, when you move over the folder the box image will appear to the right.

anyone want to test this in xp or macox?

**Apek** · December 18th, 2008, 03:09 AM

I do not get it. This will be done automagically by the scrapper if you use proper names for the files/directories.

**paul996** · December 18th, 2008, 08:02 AM

How about just skipping steps 3-5 and name the graphic cover.jpg and you are done. Windows and just about any file system (ATV/Boxee, etc) already display the folder image if named properly.

I typically only do this for my "static" movies such as things for the kids that don't turn over and get kept for a long while. This way the cover-art shows up even when I am in browse mode within the filestructure.

**zeroibis** · April 28th, 2010, 07:21 PM

OMG this was a great idea. The scrapper does not index anime and so there was no way to get images to work. But by naming it cover.jpg and then viewing the contents of each folder it works. You must view the contents of the folder in boxee or the image for the folder to display the image automatically.