How to get the correct poster from TMDB?

[SebasNights]

Hi, I'm using the last version with the UI and the post processing fetch artwork and cover images.

It works great but the posters that I'm getting in several movies are not the primary ones.

What I would like is that the posters that I get are the same of the TMDB website.

Also the fanart seems to take priority in size instead of order. Commonly the first one is the nicer one.

Is that posible?

Thanks

[kim]

movie ?
result ?
result YOU want ?
language ?

we are not mind readers

[kim]

@rednoah

just tried the GUI make movie.nfo and I think there is multiple errors:

sample:

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<uniqueid default="true" tmdb="1234"/>

correct =

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<uniqueid type='tmdb'>1234</uniqueid>

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<rating default="true" max="10" name="themoviedb">

correct =

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<rating name='tmdb' max='10' default='true'>

switched

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<imdb id="tt12345678">https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1234</imdb>
<tmdb id="1234">https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12345678</tmdb>

[rednoah]

just tried the GUI make movie.nfo and I think there is multiple errors:

FileBot r8139 implements the suggested changes.

[kim]

just to be clear

@rednoah

switched

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<imdb id="tt12345678">https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1234</imdb>
<tmdb id="1234">https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12345678</tmdb>

correct =

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<tmdb id="1234">https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1234</tmdb>
<imdb id="tt12345678">https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12345678</imdb>

[rednoah]

Yep. Looks like a copy & paste error nobody noticed. Fixed that too.

[kim]

is it possible (or can you make it so) to make the nfo's with custom scripts (like i do with amc/htpc.groovy) ?

[rednoah]

is it possible (or can you make it so) to make the nfo's with custom scripts (like i do with amc/htpc.groovy) ?

Not currently possible and not planned as far as the GUI is concerned.

[SebasNights]

movie ?
result ?
result YOU want ?
language ?

we are not mind readers

Sorry didn't have notifications on.

For example, this movie: https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/369972 ... es/posters

FileBot downloads the second picture, and I want the first one, the primary in this case.

Language is English.

[rednoah]

TheMovieDB doesn't strictly make that possible, since there's no "primary" field:
https://pastebin.com/3M6yxEJx


We could just take the first poster, which seems to be the primary one in this case. I'm not sure if the API guarantees any kind of order though. Also, we'd lose support for getting the language-specific poster because currently FileBot will pick the poster that matches your preferred language whichever has the highest rating.

[SebasNights]

TheMovieDB doesn't strictly make that possible, since there's no "primary" field:
https://pastebin.com/3M6yxEJx


We could just take the first poster, which seems to be the primary one in this case. I'm not sure if the API guarantees any kind of order though. Also, we'd lose support for getting the language-specific poster because currently FileBot will pick the poster that matches your preferred language whichever has the highest rating.

For what I could test, the first one on the web (backdrop or poster), filtered by language (English in this case), seems to be the primary one. If the order on the API is the same, you could filter by language and maintain the original order? Or just take the first one in the list with that language.

The fanart (backdrop) in this case also retrieves the second one: https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1726-i ... anguage=en

[kim]

the "primary" is = a moderator select it manually = not most or best votes

you can get in

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poster_path	"/i91mfvFcPPlaegcbOyjGgiWfZzh.jpg"

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https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/369972?language=en-US&api_key=

btw: Backdrops "No Language" is best NOT language

[rednoah]

For what I could test, the first one on the web (backdrop or poster), filtered by language (English in this case), seems to be the primary one. If the order on the API is the same, you could filter by language and maintain the original order? Or just take the first one in the list with that language.

backdrops are already not sorted in website order:
https://pastebin.com/JH8v6P5S

FileBot r8146 will use vote_average * vote_count instead of just vote_average for picking the one with the highest rating. The most popular artwork typically has lots of votes. So that should make things better. Plus whenever you get one you don't like, then you can go to the website to up-vote the good ones, for the benefit of all.

the "primary" is = a moderator select it manually = not most or best votes

you can get in

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poster_path	"/i91mfvFcPPlaegcbOyjGgiWfZzh.jpg"

I've updated --apply cover to use that, so --apply cover and --apply artwork may now possibly end up fetching different images.

[kim]

maybe better to:

poster:
filter by "language"
check if primary is diff. then first of filtered "language"
yes = select primary
no = select first from filtered "language"

then it will be like on the website = easy to use

backdrops:
"language" is bad (use only as backup) "No Language" (null or xx) is best
select first

btw:
Primary Poster

New PRIMARY Designation for Posters

[rednoah]

Does the amc / htpc script have any specific selection logic for backdrops?

Does --apply artwork select different artwork compared to the scripts?

Because the htpc script code hasn't been touched in years, so I'm weary of making changes that might break things for the possibly silent majority (?) that are happy with the current behavior.

[kim]

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def selection = [locale.language, 'en', null].findResult{ lang -> artwork.find{ it.matches(lang) } }

https://github.com/filebot/scripts/blob ... roovy#L209

I think the null is not working my fix is

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it.language.toString().replace(/null/,'xx')

anyway for it to work proper you need to change to ( my way here)

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def artFilter = { it.findResult{ lang -> artwork.find{ it.language == lang } }?.language }

if (category == 'posters') {
preferredLang = artFilter( [locale.language, 'en', movieInfo.originalLanguage , 'xx'] )
}

if (category == 'backdrops') {
preferredLang = artFilter( ['xx', locale.language, 'en'] )
}

never tried it so...

Does --apply artwork select different artwork compared to the scripts?

can I see the source code ?

you may need to change in fetchAllMovieArtwork also

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def selection = ['null', 'xx', locale.language, 'en', movieInfo.originalLanguage].findResults{ lang -> artwork.findAll{ it.language.toString().matches(lang) } }.flatten().unique()

[rednoah]

Can you give me a test case for a movie where we prefer the xx backdrop?



The Java code is completely different, and unfortunately not a one liner, but it boils down to sorting all the artwork and then picking the first one according to the relevanceOrder() comparator:

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	public static Comparator<Artwork> ratingOrder() {
		return Comparator.comparing(Artwork::getRating, reverseOrder());
	}

	public static Comparator<Artwork> languageOrder(Locale locale) {
		return Comparator.comparingInt(a -> a.language == null ? 1 : locale.getLanguage().equals(a.language) ? 0 : 2);
	}

	public static Comparator<Artwork> relevanceOrder(Locale locale) {
		Comparator<Artwork> c = languageOrder(locale);

		if (!locale.getLanguage().equals(Locale.ENGLISH.getLanguage())) {
			c = c.thenComparing(languageOrder(Locale.ENGLISH));
		}

		return c.thenComparing(ratingOrder());
	}

There's no support for order of preferred locale. If we were to add that, then we'd have to make sure that we prefer xx/null only for backdrops, but not for everything else. Because lots of non-
English speaking users like how things work right now.


Note that Artwork.matches(null) (i.e. accept anything) always returns true. You'd have to explicitly check artwork.language == null to find artwork where the language is null specifically.

[kim]

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run (2020)
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/400160 ... /backdrops

eng 720p https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/zhC ... IQ5nhi.jpg
vs
xx 4k https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/wu1 ... 8gidHf.jpg

remember poster has title so no need for it on backdrop


e.g. can you see or read any text from backdrop ?
https://koditips.com/wp-content/uploads ... 1VSOzF.png

https://kodi.wiki/images/thumb/0/05/Art ... View01.jpg

[rednoah]

This one does seem to be sorted in some sort of order again:

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{aspect_ratio=1.777777777777778, file_path=/wu1uilmhM4TdluKi2ytfz8gidHf.jpg, height=2160, iso_639_1=null, vote_average=5.384, vote_count=2, width=3840}
{aspect_ratio=1.777777777777778, file_path=/bt4xA9WZE9P1wiRILRFt0Zh2wmV.jpg, height=2160, iso_639_1=null, vote_average=5.246, vote_count=2, width=3840}
{aspect_ratio=1.777777777777778, file_path=/7KakIVhCsh28zNcoL3BJQjnyJMY.jpg, height=720, iso_639_1=null, vote_average=5.18, vote_count=3, width=1280}
{aspect_ratio=1.777777777777778, file_path=/hESI1Z8OMfj2xz22fAfCOnwyIXX.jpg, height=2160, iso_639_1=pt, vote_average=0.0, vote_count=0, width=3840}
{aspect_ratio=1.777777777777778, file_path=/zhCu4iJHSKBf4uAIQyaR5IQ5nhi.jpg, height=720, iso_639_1=en, vote_average=0.0, vote_count=0, width=1280}
{aspect_ratio=1.777777777777778, file_path=/5nHj5Yl44pAWb1rgPbZU01a15Bo.jpg, height=720, iso_639_1=null, vote_average=0.0, vote_count=0, width=1280}
{aspect_ratio=1.777777777777778, file_path=/jKCipHpHBbwlJO4QBKp7Ap0h2hL.jpg, height=720, iso_639_1=null, vote_average=0.0, vote_count=0, width=1280}
{aspect_ratio=1.777777777777778, file_path=/aoo0VIMD2iqt0ACP3XPnCIojy2J.jpg, height=1080, iso_639_1=fr, vote_average=0.0, vote_count=0, width=1920}
{aspect_ratio=1.777777777777778, file_path=/9qHMifmzwpp3diJde9ggoowEEsn.jpg, height=720, iso_639_1=fr, vote_average=0.0, vote_count=0, width=1280}
{aspect_ratio=1.777777777777778, file_path=/lbRZFOZIW0Ut7wcGAmDuvFPNnyp.jpg, height=2160, iso_639_1=null, vote_average=0.0, vote_count=0, width=3840}

I guess we can try with leaving the original order in tact and picking the first one that matches our language preferences (or has no language explicitly, for backdrops) and then see how that goes.


EDIT:

As far as I can tell, the API simply sorts by vote_average and then pushes the results out. So it's not the same as the website, which does some additional sorting on top of that. Based on the test case above, I'm now calculating the rating with voteAverage * voteCount * height (so that large images get priority over similarly voted smaller ones). Implemented with FileBot r8155.

[kim]

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<movie>
        <name>Ryan Gosling</name>
        <role>Neil Armstrong</role>
    </movie>

correct

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  <actor>
    <name>Ryan Gosling</name>
    <role>Neil Armstrong</role>
    <order>0</order>
    <thumb>https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/lyUyVARQKhGxaxy0FbPJCQRpiaW.jpg</thumb>
  </actor>

maybe this

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<sorttitle>First Man</sorttitle>

correct

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<sorttitle>First Man::2018-10-11</sorttitle>

[rednoah]

Implemented with FileBot r8211.