User:Karellen/scratchpad

Create Video Libraries

1. The Basics

2. Source Folder

3. Movie Setup

4a. TV Show Setup

4b. Seasons Setup

4c. Episodes Setup

5. Music Videos Setup

6. Add Source & Scrape

7. Scraping Problems

Video library

Management

Naming video files

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Introduction

Kodi v18 introduces limited support for reading of embedded tags and images in *.mkv and *.mp4 video files. A very sought after feature for many members.

mp4 tags are standardized, but only for a rather small subset of the the information kodi can use, see above.. (spiff)

TV Shows are not yet supported

Settings

The Kodi settings has the option to enable or disable the reading of video file tags. The default setting is disabled.
link to settings page here- Settings>Media Settings>Videos>Use video tags

Folder & File Structure

The use of Video File Tags does not absolve you from using the correct Folder and File structure for Movies, TV Shows and Music Videos as detailed in the previous pages. Use the navbox above to locate and read those requirements.

Tagging

There's currently no proper video tagging software that's user-friendly. (martijn)

mp3tag...

MetaX (paid software)

other software

Supported Tags

are the tags in this table for both mkv and mp4?

Is it ok to remove the music related tags? Are they separated accurately?

I cannot find these video related tags in mp3tag

What format is this- id3, APE, Generic, MP4, other?

IMDBURL/TMDBURL is this one tag or two separate tags?

Video File Tags
?	Tag	Type	Description
-B	-podcast	NUM	Set the podcast flag
-c	-comment	STR	Set a general comment
-C	-copyright	STR	Set the copyright information
-e	-encodedby	STR	Set the name of the person or company who encoded the file
-E	-tool	STR	Set the software used for encoding
-g	-genre	STR	Set the genre name
-G	-grouping	STR	Set the grouping name
-H	-hdvideo	NUM	Set the HD flag (1\0)
-i	-type	STR	Set the Media Type(tvshow, movie, music, ...)
-I	-contentid	NUM	Set the content ID
-j	-genreid	NUM	Set the genre ID
-l	-longdesc	STR	Set the long description
-m	-description	STR	Set the short description
-M	-episode	NUM	Set the episode number
-n	-season	NUM	Set the season number
-N	-network	STR	Set the TV network
-o	-episodeid	STR	Set the TV episode ID
-O	-category	STR	Set the category
-p	-playlistid	NUM	Set the playlist ID
-P	-picture	PTH	Set the picture as a .png
-r	-remove	STR	Remove tags by code (e.g. "-r cs" removes the comment and song tags)
-S	-show	STR	Set the TV show
-X	-rating	STR	Set the Rating(none, clean, explicit)
-y	-year	NUM	Set the release date
	-help		Display this help text and exit
	-version		Display version information and exit
Music File Tags- TO BE REMOVED FROM LIST? or is it used for Music Videos?
?	Tag	Type	Description
-A	-album	STR	Set the album title
-a	-artist	STR	Set the artist information
-b	-tempo	NUM	Set the tempo (beats per minute)
-d	-disk	NUM	Set the disk number
-D	-disks	NUM	Set the number of disks
-L	-lyrics	NUM	Set the lyrics
-R	-albumartist	STR	Set the album artist
-s	-song	STR	Set the song title
-t	-track	NUM	Set the track number
-T	-tracks	NUM	Set the number of tracks
-w	-writer	STR	Set the composer information
-z	-artistid	NUM	Set the artist ID
-Z	-composerid	NUM	Set the composer ID

• for mkv you can add an attachment named kodi-metadata. this is an an embedded .nfo file
• for mkv you can add an attachment named kodi-override-metadata. if combined with specifying IMDB/TMDB url, you get a url nfo. if alone, you get an override nfo

Artwork

for mkv you can have embedded thumbs. currently limited to:
   - 'small_cover.png' or 'small_jover.jpg' for thumbnails (as specified on matroska.org)
   - 'cover.png' or 'cover.jpg' for posters (as specified on matroska.org)
   - 'fanart.png' or 'fanart.jpg' for fanart
 

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