wixwonkity 7 Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 Hi all, I have a ton of vacation and activity videos in MP4 format. Over the years I have tagged these videos with star rating, comments, tags, titles, etc within the Windows > Properties > Details for each video. I can use them and display and sort by them within the Windows OS. Is there any way that I can write a script (or maybe there is a plugin) that will "translate" certain file details to the Metadata of the videos within Emby? Say for example, I have given Windows star ratings to my videos. Any way I could script something to give a Metadata Community Rating of 5 for videos that I have 5 stars for? I hope that makes sense. I started using the Metadata Manager to go one file at a time. But, this will take me forever. Any ideas or suggestions are greatly appreciated! Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37269 Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 Hi, so i guess this data doesn’t get written into the video file? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wixwonkity 7 Posted January 10 Author Share Posted January 10 (edited) 25 minutes ago, Luke said: Hi, so i guess this data doesn’t get written into the video file? My understanding is, yes, the details do get saved/written in the file itself. If you give a video file a star rating and add some comments, and then send that video to somebody else (email, FTP, etc) the star rating and comments will remain intact on the other person's computer. Does this answer your question adequately? Thanks! Edited January 10 by wixwonkity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37269 Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 Does the date modified timestamp of the file change? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wixwonkity 7 Posted January 10 Author Share Posted January 10 1 hour ago, Luke said: Does the date modified timestamp of the file change? Yes, the file's date modified timestamp changes when you add/edit a detail like stars, title, comments, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37269 Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 OK well the server doesn't import stars or comments at this time. The title does get imported, but it just depends on where and how Windows writes it into the file. Emby is reading the files with ffprobe. If Windows writes that data in some kind of proprietary way, then it's unlikely ffprobe will utilize it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visproduction 125 Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 Possible answer: ffprobe -v error -of compact output.mp4 -show_entries format_tags=comment from 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbjtech 4337 Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 (edited) 18 hours ago, Luke said: OK well the server doesn't import stars or comments at this time. The title does get imported, but it just depends on where and how Windows writes it into the file. Emby is reading the files with ffprobe. If Windows writes that data in some kind of proprietary way, then it's unlikely ffprobe will utilize it. ffprobe/mediainfo can read the metadata just fine as it's held in the general/tag of the container - I think Windows just reads it / allows you to edit it when you query it's properties in Windows file explorer. @wixwonkityMaybe raise as a feature request - as I used to do this myself for 'home videos' (that obviously had no official metadata) and reading from the general metadata would be a great way to populate this hand crafted data into the emby metadata/database - such as description etc. It may already do this for Photo's (it's called Exif data) Edited January 11 by rbjtech Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wixwonkity 7 Posted January 13 Author Share Posted January 13 Thank you to both for your replies. I am going to look into this further and see if I can create a script of my own. If not, I will raise a feature request. Thank you! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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