Media flags

What are Media Flags?

Media Flags are icons at XBMC that displays information (video resolution, audio format/channels, video source, ...) from the media file of a Movie or a TV Show.

Media Flags at skin Confluence: 1080, h264, dts, 5.1, 16:9 and Blu-Ray Disc

Every skin can handle the media flags different!

Where does XBMC get the Information for Media Flags?

XBMC tries to read the media information from the media file, after it was added to the Library (video Resolution, audio format/channels, codec).

DVD-Images (.iso, .img, etc) need to be played one time to get media information.

video flags

Most skins display the video resolution in flags like SD, 720 or 1080

• Format: DivX, XviD, h264, x264, ...

• Aspect ratio: 4:3, 16:9, 2.35:1

audio flags

• Channels: mono, 2ch, 5ch, ...
• Format: AC3, DTS, mp3, ...

media source

Some skins have flags for the video source of a media file. This information are obtained from the the filename (or the directoryname, if 'Use Folder Names For Lookup' were set at Set Content)

Media can be flagged with following media source flags:

• DVD, if the filename contains DVDR, DVDRIP, SDDVD, .iso or .ifo.
• Blu-Ray Disc, if the filename contains BLURAY, BLU-RAY, BRRIP or BDRIP.
• HDDVD, if the filename contains HDDVD.
• SDTV, if the filename contains SDTV or TVRip.
• HDTV, if the filename contains HDTV or PDTV.

special or custom flags

Some skins have special or custom flags:

• Movie Studio
• TV Channel/Network
• MPAA film rating system or the german FSK (Back Row Skin)

This information are obtained via the configured Scraper.

Which Skins support Media Flags?

< doesn't all skins from http://xbmc.org/skins/ have media flags? >

• Aeon
• Confluence (XBMC default Skin since v9.11)
• Night
• Transparency!
• < much more >