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2014-04-23, 15:41
(This post was last modified: 2014-04-23, 15:42 by DeShizz.)
I'd like to request that native reading of MP4 metadata be a feature of XBMC. This would eliminate the need for separate .nfo files for local metadata storage.
I believe this would be extremely useful for those who tag their MP4 video files manually or have media already embedded with Metadata, such as iTunes video files.
I can not, unfortunately, provide any help in this regard since I don't know as to how this would be implemented, but hopefully someone with knowledge of this area and with enough conviction to do so can look into it.
Obviously tagging and editing is not necessary from within XBMC, and only reading and displaying this information in the UI (as far as I understand XBMC's philosophy is that it shouldn't alter the source files anyway).
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if anyone wants to add this to mainline, note that there is some basic support in my fork at
https://github.com/notspiff/xbmc-cmake
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(2014-04-23, 21:18)ironic_monkey Wrote: if anyone wants to add this to mainline, note that there is some basic support in my fork at https://github.com/notspiff/xbmc-cmake
If there is a specific commit I can try cherry picking it and submitting it to mainline, which one is it?
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If thats it then
https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/5416
I cant do anything else but that fyi.
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Pity, but thanks for the quick reply.
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2015-12-13, 21:40
(This post was last modified: 2015-12-13, 21:43 by DeShizz.)
Wow it's been a long time since I was here last. I'm not entirely sure whats happening in pull request 8212 - It looks like there was some activity with implementing it but it's not done yet?
If so that would be incredible. Unfortunately my embedded artwork from MP4's no longer displays but hopefully that can be fixed with the tag loader.
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Yes, that would be handy but the pr was not merged apparently..
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I dream of a day were scrapers in Kodi are seen as "extras" for those few untagged files. If rippers and taggers were the ones injecting the metadata into the files then that would drastically reduce bandwidth costs for scraper sites. Scrape once and done, and in a way that is far less messy than NFO files. Plus all the things that get copied and then scanned in, were one rip can end up being on several different HTPCs, all being scanned individually. Or not having to worry about naming conventions nearly as much.
It's too bad this hasn't caught on like it did for music. Not just in Kodi, but for all media players, as only a few seem to support embedded video metadata.