[rainman74]

I have generated the tool as an EXE embedded with Python 2.7.18. This means that it is no longer necessary to install the old Python version.

The EXE works fine with the current Kodi Nexus versions 20.3 and 20.4. It probably also works with Omega, but I have not tested that.

texturecache-v2.5.4-x64.zip

[HomerJau]

Thanks @rainman74 I just used your exe to update all my artwork on my LibreElec Intel NUCs. (Ran the utility on one and copied the Kodi video and texture dbs and thumbnails to the 2nd NUC).

I have spent last couple of weeks updating my movie fanart to 4K images (and updating many posters) and this Texture Cache Maintenance tool ran super fast on my 2.5GBE NUC with NVME SSD. Started with a estimated duration of over an hour but did all 1300 movies in less than 15 minutes using 4 threads.

I still have a couple hundred movies to do, then I’m onto my music artist fanart.

BTW: Where I couldn’t get decent 4K fanart from TMDB I used Topaz Photo AI to upscale the best 1920x1080 fanart to 4K with great looking results although I got better images by lowering the auto settings in many cases (mainly over sharpening issues and Facial Recovery can remove detail causing over smoothing aka the ‘James Cameron effect’). Definitely worth investigating if anyone here is looking for better looking art images.

Edit: Link: https://www.topazlabs.com

[tfonias74]

Hello, is there a way to limit the imdb queries (I have a 1000 per day key limit for omdb) besides movies or tv shows?

[rainman74]

Hello, is there a way to limit the imdb queries (I have a 1000 per day key limit for omdb) besides movies or tv shows?

I don't know of any way to limit the imdb queries in the script. But honestly, using a bulk tool with a limited imdb license is probably not the best idea ;-)

[Cubytus]

Hi to ll,

just discovered this script, although I intend to use it for a different purpose. Correcting corrupted images and other media isn't a great concern here; rather, I have a lot of movies lost when the hard drive holding them crashed and would like to know which ones before cleaning up the database. Given how unreliable are hard drives, I'm surprised there aren't any built-in function for that.

The main goal is to get a list of filenames that don't exist anymore despite being in the database. Simple as that.

As a first try, I used:

Code:

./texturecache.py s "volumeUSB6" | grep mkv > ex-USB6-mkv.txt

This is rather crude but simply keeps in ex-USB6-mkv.txt the lines from the database that contain .mkv as a filename. However, the output lines is very wide as it contains UUID, date added as well as full path.

Is there a way to clean up the output and only keep the filename?