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DeShizz · (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).

ironic_monkey · 2014-04-23, 21:18

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

hellpe · (This post was last modified: 2014-09-25, 19:50 by hellpe.)

I'm also very interested in that potential feature. Audio metatags have been very useful to sort out music files for years. I would love to see something similar, but for video files, landing in XBMC, especially considering how unreliable scrapers can get sometimes. Doesn't Plex have such a feature?

I've found this Trac ticket asking for this feature, but it was closed in 2012. Also, there's this thread which tackles the subject, and where I've already posted a message before.

un1versal · 2014-09-26, 14:43

(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?

stourwalk · 2014-09-26, 16:37

(2014-09-26, 14:43)uNiversal Wrote:
(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?

I'd hazard a guess

added: POC mp4 movie/episode tag support

un1versal · 2014-09-26, 17:56

If thats it then https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/5416

I cant do anything else but that fyi.

diddle · 2014-09-28, 10:43

Similar for WTV files would also be welcome... especially for people coming from WMC with a large collection oft TV recordings,. Nod

Regards
Diddle

DarkHelmet · 2015-05-11, 21:47

Since I'm in a situation where using information in an embedded tag within an mp4 video would be very helpful I'm wondering what's the status of this function? The Isengard label was removed from the pr Sad

Specificially I would like to add music videos in mp4 format with embedded tags to my music video library. It's the track number from the tag I'm specicially interested in.

Also would a new view be possible for music videos "sort by track"? See also my post here

http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=...pid2002197

un1versal · 2015-05-11, 22:59

Its not going in afaik.

DarkHelmet · 2015-05-11, 23:20

Pity, but thanks for the quick reply.

RockerC · 2015-10-15, 12:34

(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

Bumping the original posters request now that a FFmpeg tag loader been marged into mainline, see http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/8212

DarkHelmet · 2015-11-07, 12:09

This has unfortunately become more relevant. Zag had to deactivate the scraper for music videos due to the traffic.

http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=...pid2150201

It is/was the only really working scraper for music videos. With no working scraper it is not possible to add music videos to the library at all.

Creating nfo files for each file is a hassle.

Being able to at least read the tags from mp4 files as a fallback solution would be really neat. It might also become relevant for other videos as well in case sites that are used for scraping change, have to close down due to the traffic or ask that they are no longer being used by kodi to scrape from (think last.fm, which asked not to be used for scraping by kodi).

DeShizz · (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.

DarkHelmet · 2015-12-13, 23:45

Yes, that would be handy but the pr was not merged apparently..

~~Ned Scott~~ · 2015-12-14, 01:54

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.