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Movie poster image sizes are inconsistent
posted by acolton12STAFFMOD on February 26, 2018 at 3:27 PM
I'm getting two different images sizes for the movie posters when requesting a image size of 185px.
I'm getting 185x278 for most pictures, which is consistent to the size used on themoviedb.org website upon inspection. The other size I'm getting is 185x274. I checked the website to see if it was consistent on tmdb website and it wasn't, seems all the images on the site are the exact same size but for some reason when making an API call I'm getting different image sizes.
There is another site that uses your API that is having the same issue upon looking at their code. http://moviee.surge.sh/
I'm sure I can find a work around with code somehow but just wanted to make you aware of the issue I was having.
Reply by Travis Bell
on February 26, 2018 at 4:39 PM
Well, when using the
w185size, we are only guaranteeing the width, not the height. That's how that size works, it resizes to 185 pixels wide by keeping the aspect ratio the same. There are some older images that were added when we had lesser validations in place which could have yielded sizes outside of our support 2:3 aspect ratio.