LINKSHEETS for IDIOTS

[jhspyhard]

How do I simply create a thumbnail view so the only the covers show?

I have Avatar.mkv and Avatar.mkv_sheet.jpg, etc files made already that just have the cover.

Why not just use the regular thumbnail view (don't use movie sheets) and insert a 120x180 sized (or any 2:3 width to height ratio) 'folder.jpg' if you are going to have each media title in its own folder.

If you have a bunch of titles in a single folder, you can put a cover art in the same folder where your media file exists: "Avatar.mkv.jpg". When you do it this way, each of your media file's thumbnail will show up as the cover art.

If you insist on only seeing a single movie cover on the screen as opposed to many movies with their covers, you will need to create yourself a template for the ThumbGen application. There are links provided in the original post where you can download a pre-existing ThumbGen template and learn how the template itself is laid out, then modify the template.xml file to suit your needs.

[gilgamesh_48]

You can also save each one as "folder.jpg" and they'll work quite nicely.

This is true ONLY is you have each movie in its own folder; which many do not.

[jhspyhard]

Have you tried this? I have to do it every time I reboot

Telnet to the WDTVLive, using putty or the WebFrontEnd telnet utility
and run the following command

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linksheets <FullPathToSheets> 5

I am still having issues with getting my movie sheets to work. I played with it for an hour and a half last night running the linksheets script multiple times, and was unsuccessful with getting any files to show up in the /msheets/ directory.

For clarity's sake, this is what my network share directory structure looks like:

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JHSNAS
  +Archive
    +Last Samurai
      -Last_Samurai.m2ts
      -Last_Samurai.m2ts_sheet.jpg (175 KB)
      -folder.jpg
    +Mask
      -The_Mask.m2ts
      -The_Mask.m2ts_sheet.jpg (157 KB)
      -folder.jpg
    +...

My S00 movie sheet options are set to the following:

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config_tool -c MSHEETMODE=std
config_tool -c VIDMSHEET=ON
config_tool -c GENMSHEET=ON
config_tool -c LISTMSHEET=ON
config_tool -c SHOW_FILESIZE_SETTING=0


I tried multiple times to run the following code manually via putty SSH and then examined the contents of /msheets/ only to find there were no files that were present in that directory at all.

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linksheets /tmp/JHSNAS/Archive 5

Is there something I may still be missing to get these to work?

Thanks,
Jim

Does anyone know if the spaces in the folder names might be the problem? I also tried "linksheets /tmp/JHSNAS/Archive/Mask 5", but that didn't seem to work either.

[haibane]

Have you tried this? I have to do it every time I reboot

Telnet to the WDTVLive, using putty or the WebFrontEnd telnet utility
and run the following command

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linksheets <FullPathToSheets> 5

I am still having issues with getting my movie sheets to work. I played with it for an hour and a half last night running the linksheets script multiple times, and was unsuccessful with getting any files to show up in the /msheets/ directory.

For clarity's sake, this is what my network share directory structure looks like:

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JHSNAS
  +Archive
    +Last Samurai
      -Last_Samurai.m2ts
      -Last_Samurai.m2ts_sheet.jpg (175 KB)
      -folder.jpg
    +Mask
      -The_Mask.m2ts
      -The_Mask.m2ts_sheet.jpg (157 KB)
      -folder.jpg
    +...

My S00 movie sheet options are set to the following:

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config_tool -c MSHEETMODE=std
config_tool -c VIDMSHEET=ON
config_tool -c GENMSHEET=ON
config_tool -c LISTMSHEET=ON
config_tool -c SHOW_FILESIZE_SETTING=0


I tried multiple times to run the following code manually via putty SSH and then examined the contents of /msheets/ only to find there were no files that were present in that directory at all.

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linksheets /tmp/JHSNAS/Archive 5

Is there something I may still be missing to get these to work?

Thanks,
Jim

Have you tried running that code via telnet? I'm not familiar with putty.

[jhspyhard]

Have you tried running that code via telnet? I'm not familiar with putty.

SSH is basically the same thing as TELNET using over-the-wire encryption. Putty is a single EXE file that will do Raw, TELNET, Rlogin, SSH and Serial connections. It's very easy to use and well worth looking into if you have never used it before. Putty Download Page

[ltworf13]

I'm still having trouble with my Plus Does anyone have any idea why the moviesheet does not show only the thumbnail. I have everything in one folder IE.

Spiderman.jpg
Spiderman.m2ts
Spiderman.m2ts.tgmd
Spiderman.m2ts_sheet.jpg
Spiderman.nfo


and this works with my old WDTVlive but not with the plus

[haibane]

Have you tried running that code via telnet? I'm not familiar with putty.

SSH is basically the same thing as TELNET using over-the-wire encryption. Putty is a single EXE file that will do Raw, TELNET, Rlogin, SSH and Serial connections. It's very easy to use and well worth looking into if you have never used it before. Putty Download Page

I'm a mac user not a windows user.

[karamazovapy]

You can also save each one as "folder.jpg" and they'll work quite nicely.

This is true ONLY is you have each movie in its own folder; which many do not.

You'd have to be functionally retarded to think you could have multiple (different) files with the exact same name in the same folder.

[jhspyhard]

No one has any ideas about my previously posted linksheets issue?

[richyrich]

No one has any ideas about my previously posted linksheets issue?

add this script to S00 custom options

config_tool -c LINKSHEETS=ON