how to use custom covers ?

**alstar** · January 4th, 2009, 06:32 PM

i placed my cover.jpg file in same folder as moviename.avi

but the scraper still overrule the cover, what do i do wrong ?

**xain09** · January 5th, 2009, 02:47 AM

Hi,

You can only see your own art when browsing your collection via browse.
Boxee does not use custom covers for the time being. This issue has been reported before. Please search the forum next time

**alstar** · January 5th, 2009, 04:15 AM

i tried to search for this many times with different words but i dit'nt find any answers,

try to search and find some answer..

**Gamester17** · January 5th, 2009, 08:15 AM

http://xbmc.org/wiki/?title=Thumbnails
Try naming it folder.jpg instead of cover.jpg

**agentlame** · January 5th, 2009, 02:55 PM

Originally Posted by Gamester17

http://xbmc.org/wiki/?title=Thumbnails
Try naming it folder.jpg instead of cover.jpg

keep in mind, this only works in browse mode, not in the 'movies' section of boxee.

**alstar** · January 5th, 2009, 04:10 PM

why just take the code from xbmc ? it's a pretty important feature to make it all look better ?

actually i really don't understand this:
if boxee is build to be the best mediacenter, and from the same dev. as from xbmc..... why are simple GREAT festures like this one missing from the start ?

i don't get it.
look at the system settings from xbmc and then look at boxee's system settings.... everything is still missing.......almost..

this is ment to be constructive.

**agentlame** · January 5th, 2009, 05:41 PM

Originally Posted by alstar

why just take the code from xbmc ? it's a pretty important feature to make it all look better ?

actually i really don't understand this:
if boxee is build to be the best mediacenter, and from the same dev. as from xbmc..... why are simple GREAT festures like this one missing from the start ?

i don't get it.
look at the system settings from xbmc and then look at boxee's system settings.... everything is still missing.......almost..

this is ment to be constructive.

boxee is not xbmc... and it's not meant to be 'xbmc pro'... boxee is a 'social media center'.

if boxee defaults to 'local' art/metadata, it kills the 'social' part.

**Timpos** · June 1st, 2009, 12:15 PM

Originally Posted by alstar

why just take the code from xbmc ? it's a pretty important feature to make it all look better ?

actually i really don't understand this:
if boxee is build to be the best mediacenter, and from the same dev. as from xbmc..... why are simple GREAT festures like this one missing from the start ?

i don't get it.
look at the system settings from xbmc and then look at boxee's system settings.... everything is still missing.......almost..

this is ment to be constructive.

Totally agree to this :why just take the code from xbmc ? it's a pretty important feature to make it all look better ?
This problem drives me insane!
Cant be to hard to make it would be possible and then just let the use choose what they want to use?!

**DPK** · June 1st, 2009, 12:48 PM

The developers are already aware of this issue and it is being worked on for an upcoming release. Boxee is a social media center that does make use of a lot of xbmc code as a base. The developers aren't going to just throw every feature into boxee.

Some things like folder art are redone for boxee to make them more "social" which breaks older xbmc functionality. This is only temporary as the developers have a lot on their plates and can't be doing everything at once (even though they are quite amazing).

With that said, topic closed.