Cannot get cover art in Kodi

[Anders]

My first issue is that I want cover art on all my movies and TV-series on my internal HDD that I have installed in my Q10 Pro. I have gone through all the settings but I can not get the covers there. Can somebody please help me? My HDD has drive letter E:/ and is called sda2 in the Kodi file browser.

My second issue is when I tried to follow this guide, http://kodi.wiki/view/Adding_video_sources
First, I can not find my HDD on the list when I "Browse for new share". Second, when I add a network share, UPnP drive I do not get Step 6-8 that is described in the guide. What setting is wrong or what am I doing wrong?

Please help!

/Anders

[stack]

Did you choose Videos - Files - Add videos - Browse - Root filesystem - mnt - sda - sda2 - your movie folder - OK - OK? After that you have to select what will contains the directory. Select Movies  and after you start to update the library, the covers will appear.

[Anders]

Thank you for your reply stack!

I believe that I have tried this. However, I have packed down the player to be returned to Futeko. Not due to this issue. But that the player interferes in the HDMI ARC passthrough sound between my LG TV and my Pioneer sourround receiver. Really strange. When the Q10 Pro was connected to the receiver with the HDMI cable passthrough sound did not work. And when I disconnected the HDMI cable from the Q10 Pro passthrough sound worked. This is not a problem with my old media player, Dune HD TV303D. 

[sirhc55]

I had the same ARC problem with my LG UHD TV and the Q5. Simple answer was SPIDF instead of HDMI. I would rather keep the Q5 and go digital audio . BTW I have a Yamaha 1079 (1050)

[Nice Monkey]

Thank you for your reply stack!

I believe that I have tried this. However, I have packed down the player to be returned to Futeko. Not due to this issue. But that the player interferes in the HDMI ARC passthrough sound between my LG TV and my Pioneer sourround receiver. Really strange. When the Q10 Pro was connected to the receiver with the HDMI cable passthrough sound did not work. And when I disconnected the HDMI cable from the Q10 Pro passthrough sound worked. This is not a problem with my old media player, Dune HD TV303D.

Not so strange at all: HDMI-CEC is a system-bus type of protocol: Any device on a combined TV and/or AMP HDMI setup may and in fact will communicate with each other.  It does not matter on which port they are connected on the TV or AMP. So bad behavior of just one specific device may affect communication and correct working for the total HDMI-CEC setup regardless the port being connected to. HDMI-CEC in fact is a very powerful standard but often implemented in a very poor (too simple) way. 

This is a known and reported problem. It is presumable fixable via a FW update. My own setup is workable as long as I switch on Q10 Pro last and turn it off first (as it jeopardizes HDMI-CEC only when ON).  Using a HDMI-CEC blocker will by-pass any kind of HDMI-CEC related  problems.
http://www.satmarkt.com/product_info.php?info=p2645_hdmi-cec-sperre--adapter-fuer-unterbrechung-des-cec-steuersignals.html
Obviously made due to many problems with incorrect/incompatible implementations.

I am getting the impression Himedia is moving to Android 7 TV/Leanback to amongst others tackle this problem. Recent Android TV/Leanback OS versions have support for HDMI-CEC build-in. But even with this never have seen a 100% correct implementation on any Android based media player myself yet. The most important feature is a ON/OFF Master setting to avoid the need for a HDMI CEC blocker (=sperre in German).