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Donzella Offline
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Is there a key to what the metadata icons mean? I can figure most of them but wanted to see a list to be sure.
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here's a list of available icons:
- resolution (480p, 720p, 1080p...)
- aspect-ratio (4:3, 1.85:1, 16:9...)
- videocodec (divx, xvid, h.264, mpeg....)
- audiocodec (mpeg, mp3, dolby, dts...)
- source (DVD, Blu-Ray, HDTV....)
- rating (Rated R, etc...)
- subtitle available (CC)
- studio (film studio company logo)

did i miss any?...

in case you need clarification on one or more icons, just post a screenshot. :-)

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ronie... has anyone mentioned that you rock lately?

How does it know the source of the video (dvd, hdtv, blu-ray)?
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Donzella Wrote:ronie... has anyone mentioned that you rock lately?

How does it know the source of the video (dvd, hdtv, blu-ray)?
i believe it gets that info from the filename.

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Donzella Wrote:How does it know the source of the video (dvd, hdtv, blu-ray)?

In my case, Im on XBOX platform, I have labelled my files as:

moviename - sddvd.xvid.avi
moviename - hdtv.xvid.avi

In Transperancy!, if you enable extract metadata through settings it will take a look at the file name and place the proper tags from the file name as in my above example.

In my case, I get all proper tags except for studio or the film rating. I still am trying to figure out how to get the studio tags to be displayed (I believe in a nfo with the file but have yet to see one created).
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Donzella Wrote:ronie... has anyone mentioned that you rock lately?

How does it know the source of the video (dvd, hdtv, blu-ray)?

flipped cracker Wrote:i believe it gets that info from the filename.

and if there's no tag in the filename, it guesses the source based on the resolution, file extension and type of video.

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(This post was last modified: 2009-09-03 20:05 by ronie.)
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grupy Wrote:In my case, I get all proper tags except for studio or the film rating. I still am trying to figure out how to get the studio tags to be displayed (I believe in a nfo with the file but have yet to see one created).

you'll have to use a scraper that supports it, like the imdb scraper.
i have no clue if other scrapers also fetch studio and mpaa information.

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ronie Wrote:you'll have to use a scraper that supports it, like the imdb scraper.
i have no clue if other scrapers also fetch studio and mpaa information.

that makes sense as I used themoviedb.org as my scraper. I will try to re-scan my library to see if it makes a difference with IMDB scraper instead.

Thnx for the heads-up Nod
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ronie Wrote:and if there's no tag in the filename, it guesses the source based on the resolution, file extension and type of video.

Ya, I have nothing in the file name but the name of the movie and it guessed pretty much right on throughout the library. This skin is so great. Mighty cool.
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Donzella Wrote:Ya, I have nothing in the file name but the name of the movie and it guessed pretty much right on throughout the library. This skin is so great. Mighty cool.

yeah, i don't have any tags in my filenames either and i didn't want to rename everything,
so i figured out a way to display them anyway....although not 100% accurate in all cases.

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