[konnerbllb]

Currently the movie selection screen indexes movies on my flash drive by showing a random still frame from the movie along with the name below. My daughter can't read and it would be really helpful for her to have a better way to identify movies.

Can cover art can be used for movies stored on a flash drive similar to how cover art can be added to a Kodi library? If so are there guidelines for naming, file type, size?

 

[Norbert]

Good question. All my movies have metadata including artwork, so hopefully that'll be compatible with the UConnect Theater.

 

[sdsalsero]

Did anyone ever get this to work?

I just tried two things ... neither of which were successful:

• include movie-poster files as "movie-title.jpg"
• use VLC to edit the metadata (after right-click > Adding cover art)

My movies were all converted with Handbrake to 1024x610 .mp4 (with h.264 video and stereo-AAC audio)

 

[sdsalsero]

FYI
I found the solution in another thread
https://www.pacificaforums.com/foru...-movies-via-usb-what-format-5.html#post336498

Basically:
- use MKV instead of MP4
- use MKV ToolNix utility
- load video file (it can start as MP4, i.e., no need to re-encode)
- add cover art .jpg under Attachments > Attachments To Add
(you can leave it as the default 'image/jpeg' type)
- re-save as MKV

Also, if you have Chapters, the MKV file will defer to those 'titles' i.e., it acts differently than it did with MP4 files. You can either remove the Chapters (that's what I did) or you can force the title in the General metadata/tab.