Where EPG images thumbnails are located

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royfra

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Where EPG images thumbnails are located

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Post by royfra » Wed Aug 17, 2016 12:55 am

Hello,

I'm using epg123 for my EPG in WMC than I convert the shows with MCEbuddy (renaming the show like : TV\show_name\Season xx\show_name - SXXEXX.mp4) and then import them in plex.

There's a lot of cover art, posters, banners that are missing within plex, so I would like to be able to use the "generic" image show from the WMC EPG when nothing's found in TheTVDB. (see : https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2CW_s ... sp=sharing )

Does anyone know how to do that?
thanks

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Post by garyan2 » Wed Aug 17, 2016 3:08 am

WMC stores the images in C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files. It uses the linked filename from Schedules Direct on the amazon servers which look something like p10781465_b_h3_ae.jpg ... and on top of that, it adds extension .cache on the end so the file in the temp directory is p10781465_b_h3_ae.jpg.cache.

Epg123 has made it a little easier to find with the guideImages.xml file which has all that info in one place ... you can find the title of the series which matches it to a url/filename. From there you can get the file in the temp directory.
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Keeping WMC alive beyond January 2020. https://garyan2.github.io

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