That’s odd. Because until I had to nuke Plex entirely to reinstall (see this post), that is what it did. It took poster artwork from TVDB for the overall show, and another separate one for each individual season, but each episode had a generated thumbnail from that specific episode as the artwork.
I lost that when I had to nuke Plex, but the trade off is that Plex is actually working again.
There has got to be a way to have Plex automatically do this (as it used to) without me having to go to every single episode to choose the thumbnail it generated instead of that horrid cropped poster from the Season poster. I know it used to do that. Did they remove that feature?
I mean, it’s still generating thumbnails for each episode, it’s just not selecting them for display instead choosing that horrible cropped version. Unless those thumbnails are from TVDB as well, in which case it should be using them.
Edit:
It’s doing exactly what I expect it to initially. Putting generated thumbnails on each episode. But when it pulls the metadata from TVDB, it ends up replacing every episode thumbnail with that cropped season poster
