Whilst I am currently a NextPVR v4 user, the following post has suggested that version 5 does not currently have thumbnail support for .wtv files originating from Windows Media Centre (WMC), which is why I am raising this wish-list item. Microsoft support for Windows 7 will cease next month, and so there may be a number of users who are looking to migrate their libraries across to NextPVR which is by far the best alternative in my opinion!
https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?tid=60141
To get thumbnails to work for .wtv, .avi, etc. files in version 4, I have installed the TV Listings plug-in, which searches for image files of the same name in the same directory as the video files. I have then used the script in the above thread to generate thumbnail files in bulk once all the .wtv files have been imported to NextPVR. This is working well, but from later posts in the thread above it sounds as though neither this plug-in nor thumbnails for .wtv files will not be supported in version 5.
As a feature request/suggestion, and without yet being familiar with version 5 (apologies if this post is misguided), it would be great if NextPVR could automatically analyse any video files (.wtv, .avi, etc) added to the library during the import stage (asynchronously in the background), and generate its own thumbnails which it would then store within the database itself (rather than as separate files). This appears to be how WMC works. The thumbnails could then potentially be retrieved by other clients such as Kodi or Android apps, etc.
A number of other media centre platforms (Kodi, Plex, Media Portal 2) attempt to use third party scrapers to retrieve artwork and provide graphics, but in practice I found that all of these platforms were unsuccessful in retrieving artwork for the vast majority of our recorded TV library. The process relies on meticulous file naming and the sorting of files into sub-folders (also confirming to the same naming conventions), and potentially the use of additional third party tools such as Media Center Master to do it for you. This all became way too user intensive to set up and manage for our library of 1100+ files (3 TB), and in fact became impossible to implement as neither Kodi nor Media Portal 2 appeared to be able to differentiate between a one-off TV recording and a TV series, and would save one-off recordings into the "Films" folder instead and would use the wrong scraper! It was a frustrating experience.
Ideally, I would like to see continued support for .wtv thumbnails in version 5. If an automated process is not possible, it would be great to retain the ability to use image files in the same location as the video files, as the TV Listings plug-in uses today.
https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?tid=60141
To get thumbnails to work for .wtv, .avi, etc. files in version 4, I have installed the TV Listings plug-in, which searches for image files of the same name in the same directory as the video files. I have then used the script in the above thread to generate thumbnail files in bulk once all the .wtv files have been imported to NextPVR. This is working well, but from later posts in the thread above it sounds as though neither this plug-in nor thumbnails for .wtv files will not be supported in version 5.
As a feature request/suggestion, and without yet being familiar with version 5 (apologies if this post is misguided), it would be great if NextPVR could automatically analyse any video files (.wtv, .avi, etc) added to the library during the import stage (asynchronously in the background), and generate its own thumbnails which it would then store within the database itself (rather than as separate files). This appears to be how WMC works. The thumbnails could then potentially be retrieved by other clients such as Kodi or Android apps, etc.
A number of other media centre platforms (Kodi, Plex, Media Portal 2) attempt to use third party scrapers to retrieve artwork and provide graphics, but in practice I found that all of these platforms were unsuccessful in retrieving artwork for the vast majority of our recorded TV library. The process relies on meticulous file naming and the sorting of files into sub-folders (also confirming to the same naming conventions), and potentially the use of additional third party tools such as Media Center Master to do it for you. This all became way too user intensive to set up and manage for our library of 1100+ files (3 TB), and in fact became impossible to implement as neither Kodi nor Media Portal 2 appeared to be able to differentiate between a one-off TV recording and a TV series, and would save one-off recordings into the "Films" folder instead and would use the wrong scraper! It was a frustrating experience.
Ideally, I would like to see continued support for .wtv thumbnails in version 5. If an automated process is not possible, it would be great to retain the ability to use image files in the same location as the video files, as the TV Listings plug-in uses today.
