Hi all,
I was wondering if somewhere down that road an option to showing actor thumbs under the video info would be feasible.
Personally, I find too many obscure actors are listed with the current method and feel that a director or genre setting that would show related video poster icons would be more useful.
Just a thought.
Cheers
The actor thumbnails have proven to be popular with some people and are really useful to use to navigate to their other films !
Personally, that said I do agree about the director thumb being even more useful to find filmd to watch but an uncluttered screen is good.
I have always found the genres search a little off just due to either poor classification or lots of different ways of saying the same thing (maybe its improved since I last tried it).
I don’t know how typical a user I am though.
Yes, I don't like clutter either and that is why I don't like the actor thumbs. Too many actors listed that are not in anything else in my library. Directors would be be much cleaner.
That said, I am not advocating getting rid of one for the other, but making it an option in settings.
Cheers,
Should be easy enough to have PMS return related movies (matching some/most/all genre, e.g.)
Submitted a pull request with a few changes to that page :)
Elan, that’s insane! Can’t wait for that update. Thank you for your hard work 
Should be easy enough to have PMS return related movies (matching some/most/all genre, e.g.)
Submitted a pull request with a few changes to that page
That would definitely work for me. Nice job, elan.
There is a slight glitch in the implementation of the new preplay screen. Where it lists actors, directors, producers horizontally along the preplay screen Plexconnect displays one actual person for each category but then has three rows that state ((ERROR:VAL)).
In terminal it indicates there are a number of XMLConverter errors: Pastebin
Can you attach a picture and put a log file up on pastebin please?
Okay, I added them to the original post.
Thanks
Could you bring up the movie in the Plex web interface. Then press the info button, it’s at the bottom on the left hand side, looks like a (i) in a circle, then from the popup press ‘View XML’ and then post the resulting xml page, thanks
You need to copy and paste the page to pastebin (to retain formatting), the link you gave links to localhost so will not show anything to anyone apart form yourself.
My problem was that pastebin wasn't maintaining the formatting. Is an image useful?
Umm… Honestly I’m not sure what the problem is, all the needed information is in the xml so it should work fine.
Could you open Debuy.py in a text editor and change the debut level of XMLConverter from 1 to 2, resave the file, run PlexConnect again, navigate to the movies preplay screen and repost the terminal output.
Thanks
Hi Roidy,
I will follow your instructions next time I have a window. Most likely tomorrow morning.
Hi,
Are people actually getting Plex to show actor thumbs? That feature has never worked for me on any client.
Hi,
Are people actually getting Plex to show actor thumbs? That feature has never worked for me on any client.
Depends mostly on the database you are pulling your metadata from - I believe. Some add those thumbs, some don't.
If you select more on the movie pre-play screen you can see the associated genres, directors and actors. The actors names have thumbnails next to them if the site you are scraping from has them (if not there is a generic icon).
See below for an example (excuse the poor quality):
I use under the Freebase agent both the movies DB and fanart.tv are being used in that order along with some other agents but still no actor thumbs show up for me.
PlexConnect can only provide what the PMS has (although i never see them in the desktop client).
I have freebase as the primary agent and then the following set:
MoviePosterDB
Local media assets (movies)
The movie database
Freebase
Wikipedia
Personal Media
