topic Re: Kodi Thumbanils in Android TV

Kodi Thumbanils

lollypop11 — Thu, 11 May 2017 22:14:50 GMT

Hi, I wonder if someone can help me please because I have reached to the point where i am picking my hair out.

I have a Sony tv XE9005 with Kodi (17.1) installed from the Google Play Store. I have added movies using smb share from my external nas. I can see thumbnails for on main deck for recently added and in progress movies however, when I go to videos, all i see is blank folders, no thumbnails. I have scanned the library using all different scrappers, deleted/reinstalled kodi to an older version/ changed the shares from smb to nfs but still I am unable to generate thumbnails in videos.

I have also tried adding a folder as a favorite but cannot see thumbnails for that either.

I have added the same movies collection on my windows 10 pc using smb shares, all thumbnails show fine. Its just that kodi on Sony tv does not show the thumbnails properly.

Is there some sort of issue with Android software on sony tv that does not allow caching of thumbnails properly or something is not right?

See the screenshots

Any help please?

Re: Kodi Thumbanils

lollypop11 — Fri, 12 May 2017 15:21:05 GMT

Anyone?

Re: Kodi Thumbanils

kinggo01 — Fri, 12 May 2017 15:36:57 GMT

you should really use "movies" category and not "videos".

Re: Kodi Thumbanils

lollypop11 — Fri, 12 May 2017 15:40:36 GMT

I agree but movies show all my videos together and does not sort out movies according to animation/documentaries etc.

secondly what could be wrong with showing no thumbnails for folders added through the shares? Since these shares work fine on my other devices.

Re: Kodi Thumbanils

Anonymous — Fri, 12 May 2017 15:42:26 GMT

Hi there

I can only really point you to the Kodi forums on this im afraid. Although I note that you already have posted their too: http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=314109

Cheers

Re: Kodi Thumbanils

lollypop11 — Fri, 12 May 2017 15:50:20 GMT

Yes. I am 100% sure it is something do with Andoid installed on Sony not giving correct permeasions to smb shares to cache the thumbnails.

lets see if some genius can figure out.

cheers

Re: Kodi Thumbanils

kinggo01 — Fri, 12 May 2017 15:56:47 GMT

@lollypop11 wrote:
I agree but movies show all my videos together and does not sort out movies according to animation/documentaries etc.

secondly what could be wrong with showing no thumbnails for folders added through the shares? Since these shares work fine on my other devices.

there's nothing wrong. It's just that kodi doesn't show thumbnails in filemanager mode which is what you are using in first picture.

What you can do is, add some tags in "movies" view and than add yours accordingly.

Re: Kodi Thumbanils

lollypop11 — Fri, 12 May 2017 19:50:37 GMT

This is not file manager mode; it is in "videos" section.

Re: Kodi Thumbanils

kinggo01 — Fri, 12 May 2017 20:16:02 GMT

sure. But your view in the first picture is under "files".

Re: Kodi Thumbanils

lollypop11 — Mon, 15 May 2017 19:29:44 GMT

Yes it is. I go to videos, files and then english folder which has all the movies sorted in thier own folders.

But the thing is my other system such as windows pc is showing thumbnails in movies section and in videos section. so does mrmc on apple tv 4 which is a forked verion of kodi.

I could be wrong but i am sure it is something to do with permessions or write access to andoid system on sony tv. I just read this thread where people are complaining about the similar writing permessions:

https://community.sony.co.uk/t5/android-tv/writing-on-usb-disks-impossible-on-marshmallow/td-p/2297578

Re: Kodi Thumbanils

kinggo01 — Mon, 15 May 2017 20:36:55 GMT

No. Thumbnails are stored inside Kodi folder, so no issues with permissions.

When you go to "Videos" category, you have Movies, TV Shows, Files, Playlists and Video addons as categories and some media sources. So, Movies and TV Shows are basically the same things as they are as main categories. Files on the other hand is file browser and there you'll see the same sources as under Media sources.

And Kodi shows info/thumbs only for items which are added to library. As long as you don't set up some sources and do some scanning, you'll never see any thumbnails.

I don't know how it is on other platforms, but your issue is that you are using file manager view in your first picture, you are in Videos-Files. While on the second one you are in Videos-Movies-Titles with wall view. And Movies is a part of the library. I don't know if you get me and I'm not sure if I can explain it any better.

One other thing that you can try, apart from tags, is to try with library node editor addon. But I have zero experience with that.