Surprised more interest isn’t expressed for this. There are many use cases where this would be very helpful. I use a cloud drive mount and don’t want to be dinged for extra unneeded traffic if I loose the BIFs and they have to be created. In that case, it’s not a “nice to have” it’s a “will cost me money or a ban if I don’t have”
Also worth considering, we don’t generate our own posters when they are already available. Why have thousands of users scanning the same content and creating the same BIFs? I realize there will be some variables in the length of the video, it may be off by a few seconds, but we are able to do something similar now with external subtitle files.
I’m on Linux, until this feature is added, I’m going to try the symlink method just to make my data directory more manageable, even if it does slow down things a bit.
