WMC Video Library metadata

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WMC Video Library metadata

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Post by Keylonta » Sun Feb 18, 2018 8:09 am

WMC has a VIDEO Library and a MOVIE Library. How do I display metadata in the VIDEO Library?

Can the WMC VIDEO Library display metadata embedded in video files?

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Post by DavidinCT » Sun Feb 18, 2018 3:40 pm

Keylonta wrote:WMC has a VIDEO Library and a MOVIE Library. How do I display metadata in the VIDEO Library?

Can the WMC VIDEO Library display metadata embedded in video files?
As I understood, the Video library was not really designed for Movie or TV content. I believe it was designed for family type videos(personally I use it for other content) I don't think there was ever a option to get Meta data in the Video library. There are 3rd party applications that add a "TV library" type thing but, the built in thing is a different story.

As for the Movie library, YAMMM is my fav, still works and is pretty much all automatic...
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Post by Crash2009 » Sun Feb 18, 2018 5:21 pm

I'll take a guess....

I would think you would need to configure your MetaData "Scraper/Collector" to add the Video Folder as a "Watched Folder"

I don't think I ever dealt with this problem before. I only keep my Phone Video's in there.

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Post by jachin99 » Fri Feb 23, 2018 3:28 pm

Ok so for video metadata wmc MIGHT use tags similar to what it does for pictures. Tags are still metadata but the tags for personal videos might be different than the tags for movie files. If you have the photo software that came with windows essentials whose name I can't remember at the moment then you may be able to insert metadata into your video files that way

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Post by Crash2009 » Sat Feb 24, 2018 3:29 am

Keylonta wrote:WMC has a VIDEO Library and a MOVIE Library. How do I display metadata in the VIDEO Library?

Can the WMC VIDEO Library display metadata embedded in video files?
Here is what I did...

Pick a File in your Video Library folder (assumedly a movie)

Go to IMDB and get the correct name of the movie

Create a folder using the correct name

Put your file in the folder (you might have to rename the file to the same as the folder)

Cut and Paste the file into your working Movie Folder

Your Meta Data Scraper will place a couple files inside the folder

Cut and paste the folder back into the WMC Video Folder

Voilla

This should get you started toward getting the exact results you want.

Looks like the Eclipse picture is too big for the Video Folders PlaceHolder. I dont see any Synopsis either

Need someone with a little bigger brain....Who's NEXT?
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Post by Crash2009 » Sat Feb 24, 2018 3:48 am

When you look at this in WMC Video's, And Open the Twilight folder, then right click the Twilight file and click Details.... I did get to Synopsis...but there isn't much there.

If you go to the File Explorer "Video's Folder" and click Details....You can add Right click NAME and a drop list appears where you can add various additional properties
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Post by Crash2009 » Sat Feb 24, 2018 3:50 am

This is what is in Synopsis
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Post by Crash2009 » Sat Feb 24, 2018 4:09 am

Over on my Main Win7 WMC, that has a properly configured MOVIES Folder, the Twighlight Movie Poster and complete synopsis display the Twighlight.MKV exactly the way we want.

As you can see there are a couple "Other Types"... such as, the Adult Poster, and a couple documentary Series that were configured manually also.
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Post by Crash2009 » Sat Feb 24, 2018 4:28 am

Plus, you can.....RightClick the file and go to Properties....then Click any of the fields and add in your own data...

Tags is used as an example...

Maybe David could use this for his 4K question

http://www.thegreenbutton.tv/forums/vie ... 64#p125264
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Post by Keylonta » Tue Mar 06, 2018 8:31 am

Thanks everyone!
DavidinCT wrote:As for the Movie library, YAMMM is my fav, still works and is pretty much all automatic...
Where is the official download for YAMMM now? The last version I tried some years ago was yammm_setup_w7_13_10_28_1336 from http://www.missingremote.com but the topic has been removed. What is the latest version?

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