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ADDING YOUR OWN COVER ART WD012-1-2
12/22/2003
6325 Digital Way Indianapolis, IN 46278 317.616.6789 phone 317.616.6790 fax www.escient.com
Adding Cover Art Images
Sometimes there are DVDs that are not automatically recognized by the Escient MovieDB™ or
CDs that are not automatically recognized by the Gracenote CDDB™ service. Although
FireBall provides default genre cover art for these discs, you may want to display your own
cover art images for these discs. Here’s how you can do it…
What You Will Need
To get your own images onto your FireBall, you will need:
Escient FireBall DVDM-100 with version 3.0.0.6 software or later
Escient FireBall E 40/120 with version 2.0.2.2 software or later
An ethernet network
PC or Mac computer on the same ethernet network as the FireBall
FTP client software for your PC or Mac (see below)
One or more JPEG or GIF images
There are many FTP client applications available for the PC and Mac, however we recommend
that you use “WS_FTP LE” on the PC and “Fetch” on the Mac.
FS_FTP LE is free and is available from http://www.ftpplanet.com/download.htm
Fetch is available as a free 15 day download from http://fetchsoftworks.com/
Where to Get Cover Art
You can create your own images using your computer and a graphics program, or scan your
own cover art from the original DVD or CD covers using your computer and a flatbed scanner.
Cover art is also available on the Internet at most popular sites that sell DVDs and CDs.
Simply right click on the image and select the “Save Target As…” item and save it to your hard
drive in a place you can easily find it with your FTP client application.
Image Specifications
Limitations
Each cover art image must be less than 20k in size.
Only JPEG and GIF image formats are acceptable.
WARNING
Images which are not JPEG or GIF images and images that are over 20K will generate errors
when you try to transfer them to the FireBall. Use an image editing application like “Paint” or
“Photoshop” to reduce the dimensions of your images and save them with enough JPEG
compression to reduce the image to less than 20K.
Image Dimensions
You can use images with slightly different sizes and FireBall will properly scale the image to fit
on screen, however, the following images sizes are recommended for optimum performance.
DVD Covers should be 250 x 175 pixels
CD Covers should be 200x200 pixels