Cover Art

[mazeyj]

I have a lot of Sesame Street videos on my external drive connected to my Boxee. Problem is, IMDB has not much in the way of cover art. The description I do not care about as much. I have all the covers for all of the videos. Is there a way to upload cover art to IMDB or a way to assign it to videos?

[darcilicious]

http://forums.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=31606 might be a helpful thread.

[mazeyj]

So I read the post: folder.jpg is only picked up during a scheduled scan

So every movie I have on my external has cover art to it that matched prior. When I had SageTV it did not pull cover art so I had to manually add it. I have a lot of Sesame Street videos and none of those covers are available through IMDB, so for example I have Elmo's World - Pets.avi and Elmo's World - Pets.jpg. Would this mean on next scan it should pull through this cover or does the cover need to be place in a specific directory on the Boxee and if so, how to you access the back-end of Boxee?

[Fire4Effect]

So I read the post: folder.jpg is only picked up during a scheduled scan

So every movie I have on my external has cover art to it that matched prior. When I had SageTV it did not pull cover art so I had to manually add it. I have a lot of Sesame Street videos and none of those covers are available through IMDB, so for example I have Elmo's World - Pets.avi and Elmo's World - Pets.jpg. Would this mean on next scan it should pull through this cover or does the cover need to be place in a specific directory on the Boxee and if so, how to you access the back-end of Boxee?

You need to name the cover art folder.jpg and it needs to be placed in the same folder as the .avi file. You then may need to remove all the videos and wait for the next scheduled re-scan. That's what I did and it worked.

[mazeyj]

I am assuming case does not matter. This is what I have:

Folder called Zoe's Dance Moves
inside that folder, Zoe's Dance Moves.mp4 and Folder.jpg

I removed the source and then added it back setting scan every hour. I did this about 3 hours ago and last scan shows about 20 minutes ago and nothing has changed. Does the boxee need to be restarted.

Also one other question, if the system pulls through the wrong cover art and I find the correct file, but it has no cover art, it ends up keeping what was previously set. Is this normal?

[Fire4Effect]

I am assuming case does not matter. This is what I have:

Folder called Zoe's Dance Moves
inside that folder, Zoe's Dance Moves.mp4 and Folder.jpg

I removed the source and then added it back setting scan every hour. I did this about 3 hours ago and last scan shows about 20 minutes ago and nothing has changed. Does the boxee need to be restarted.

Also one other question, if the system pulls through the wrong cover art and I find the correct file, but it has no cover art, it ends up keeping what was previously set. Is this normal?

I'm not sure if it's case sensitive, but mine was named folder.jpg. For one of my movies Boxee pulled in the wrong cover art. I added the correct one in the folder, then went identify and remove so it went back into the "Unidentified Files" section. Then I waited an hour (mines set to scan hourly) and it picked it back up with the folder.jpg that I placed in the folder. I didn't restart Boxee. I had a couple stragglers where I had to rename the actual file so Boxee would pick it up automatically, as opposed to manually identifying.