At the risk of being told the intended behavior has been achieved, I submit an official request for Plex to pay attention to the little things - that mean a lot:
For Plex Staff unable to put their finger on the problem - Nick Nolte looks a little younger in that image than he does in real life - can we work on that?
Another important clue, for the really dense - a TV Show Image, particularly ONE TV SHOW - out of what is surely a host of ‘a couple’ - does not justify an across the board image grab.
This drives me crazy and is caused by the fact the movie meta agent pulls one set of actor images and the TV show agent pulls another. Whichever was refreshed last gets displayed in plex regardless of it being a movie or show. Guessing its a shared resource once downloaded to plex.
Only solution I’ve found is to refresh the movie library regularly as their actor images are better (IMO). Of course that then replaces the TV show image (the mandalorian in this case)
Well, I’ll give it a try in a minute, as any inconvenience will be worth enduring to fix this mess.
It boggles the mind the character image is even used at all. That is thought up by a bunch of teenagers, thinking it’s cool - and it is not cool. Actor Images need to be images of the Actor’s Face - not of the makeup, or computer generated icon.
I went looking for Pedro Pascal - 'cause I didn’t have a clue who he really was - and the image of the Mandalorian’s Helmet was NO help solving that mystery. Cool? Yea, maybe if you’re 12. Otherwise, not that cool.
…and thx for the tag-fix @darcilicious - missed that one entirely.
TVDB has actor images per show using an image of the character in the show. That is their design and works well for them. So the imagine as an example here is accurate as its the character the actor plays in the mandalorian.
Plex sharing actor imagines between shows and movies is where the problem is as they get updated depending what was refreshed last.
But is absolutely, positively - WRONG. Just because arguing with TVDB always goes nowhere - doesn’t make what they’re doing right.
The actor image should be the actor - not his unidentifiable character image (CGI - or 14 hours in the makeup chair) - and Plex is just making it worse with it’s sweeping image selection.
I’d rather see this one, than the one they’re using:
I’m not arguing for one or the other, not sure why you picked up I am. As I stated earlier, this also drives me crazy. I’m stating the facts as to how its works and why you see what you see on plex, nothing more. I for one would like this improved but I’m also not holding my breath…
BTW… as another workaround (as there is no real solution) you could change your TV agent to point to TMDB instead of TVDB, that will fix you actor icons. However, beware you will run into other oddities due to the way TMDB store actors per eposide (not just show) but its worth considering.
For me the best solution so far is to just refresh the movies libraries metadata from time to time which will update the actors icons for you.
I’m not there yet - but soon I may be. I have started adding TV Shows to TMDB - when I show up at TVDB and can’t access the show in question 'cause it’s locked - and two weeks out of date.
I’m just stating what I think is right. Actors sell themselves on their head shots. A Helmet isn’t exactly a great selling point or do a dam thing when I don’t know who Pedro Pascal is in real life.
The discussion over what all is wrong about this whole thing, could go on for decades - and probably will having never been addressed… how many YEARS has the oval cut-out been chopping heads in the Plex UI and how many YEARS has it been left to ferment, unaltered in ANY way?
