Why 'Collection' and not 'Show'? If I'm not mistaken the metadata input 'grouping' is more akin to a Collection (as in metadata grouping='Lord of the Rings Trilogy' would display in Mediainfo as Collection: Lord of the Rings Trilogy and then below that would be 'Show: The Return of the King') Metadata show='Criminal Minds' displays in Mediainfo as 'Collection: Criminal Minds'.

I'm adding metadata via the ffmpeg -metadata flag but in some cases I'm having a hard time identifying the mapping in Mediainfo so I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong. If this has been answered just point me to that post. I did a search and couldn't find what I'm looking for so thought it would be best to ask.

Keep of the great work on all of your projects!!Īpologies if this has been answered already. Proc = n(args, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)Īdd_metadata function takes arbitrary key:value parameters and turns them into ffmpeg arguments.First I want to say that Mediainfo is a godsend. Save_path = video.with_suffix( '.metadata' + video.suffix) Python script import subprocessįrom typing import Dict def add_metadata( video: Path, For reference you can check Matroska spec for MKV and Kodi docs for MP4. Not all containers support every metadata. Use -map_metadata 0 to copy over existing meta tags without changing them.Use -c copy to copy streams directly without encoding.When split into lines: ffmpeg -i video.mkv ` With ffmpeg, adding metadata is simply including -metadata key=value arguments in the command: ffmpeg -i video.mkv -c copy -movflags use_metadata_tags -map_metadata 0 -metadata title= 'Hello World' -metadata year= 2020 This answer on StackOverflow put me on the right path. ffmpeg commandįfmpeg supports practically anything under the sun, including adding metadata. I've written about a way to do it on PowerShell, but nothing comes closer to the joy I get from writing in Python. This time I've decided to add metadata about the title, year, IMDb links, artists, etc. Every year or so I go over what I have and do a clean-up if necessary. I've been maintaining a movie archive for years now.

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