Baenwort 118 Posted January 1, 2019 Posted January 1, 2019 Could Emby add support for Fan Edits and their associated metadata? The best source on the web for the metadata is: https://ifdb.fanedit.org/ and it would help streamline in the same way the metadata pull does for regular videos. I currently list my fan edits separately from their original movie so that I can have independent metadata and then group them with the original as a collection. I've thought about using the new multi version feature but from what I can see that shares the metadata between all versions so I'm thinking my current method is the best as the metadata can very significantly from the OE movie. 5 2
Baenwort 118 Posted January 1, 2019 Author Posted January 1, 2019 (edited) No, MovieDB does regular releases of movies. If it did not have a theatrical, TV, disc, or streaming release from a official company it isn't in there. This is for is a database of meta data for fan edits only. For example, here is a link to a single fan's re-imaging (called a Fan Fix) of a rather poor movie into something that is rather good: https://ifdb.fanedit.org/pearl-harbor-strength-and-honor-edition/ People even make custom posters and art for many of these. Another example is all the many re-edits of the Star Wars movies that have been made over time. Most attempt to restore the original releases but some try to salvage something enjoyable out of the mess of the prequels. https://ifdb.fanedit.org/star-wars-the-fall-of-the-republic/ Edited January 1, 2019 by Baenwort
Luke 42077 Posted January 2, 2019 Posted January 2, 2019 Ok I understand. Yes it's possible for the future. I guess for one thing we'd have to get a sense of how popular these are.
Baenwort 118 Posted January 2, 2019 Author Posted January 2, 2019 Ok I understand. Yes it's possible for the future. I guess for one thing we'd have to get a sense of how popular these are. I can't answer for Emby's user base but the idea of fan editing is so popular that even professional film makers like Steven Soderbergh ( http://extension765.com/soderblogh/16-heavens-gate-the-butchers-cut ) have indulged in it for movies that are not their own. Wikipedia even documents one case where the director of the film hired the fan who did his own edit to turn it into the directors cut that was released on the blu-ray. 1
harrv 90 Posted May 10, 2020 Posted May 10, 2020 Luke, you said you wanted to get a sense of how popular fan edits are. I have an entire Emby library dedicated to fan edits. (I find it useful to keep them separate from mainstream movie releases.) I would LOVE to be able to use fanedit.org as a metadata source for that library. Right now, for any fan edits I add I have to manually copy the info from fanedit.org into the metadata editor in Emby. It's quite time consuming. Thanks for your consideration! 2
Xorp 48 Posted May 13, 2020 Posted May 13, 2020 I just put fanedits in the extras folder with the file name being semi descriptive of the release
harrv 90 Posted May 14, 2020 Posted May 14, 2020 (edited) I just put fanedits in the extras folder with the file name being semi descriptive of the release Sounds like a good solution for you, but many fanedits are not based off of a single movie, but rather pull elements together from two or more movies to create something entirely unique and different. Would “In the Mouth of Event Horizon” be an extra of “In the Mouth of Madness” or “Event Horizon”? What if I have neither of those? In any case, I would find it difficult to describe the intent of a fan edit with just a file name. By creating a separate listing, I have the flexibility of more fully describing the edits made and for what purpose. I can also give fanedits a “FanEdit” genre tag, and use sub-genres that they use at fanedit.org such as “FanFix”, “FanMix”, or “TV-to-Movie”, and give the fanedit its own poster/artwork Edited May 15, 2020 by harrv 1
harrv 90 Posted May 14, 2020 Posted May 14, 2020 (edited) If any Emby developer or user is interested in making a metadata plugin for IFDB (https://ifdb.fanedit.org/), one starting place might be the IFDB metadata bundle for Plex. https://github.com/tomfin46/IFDB.bundle That's about 280 lines of Python code. I know Emby plugins are written in languages supported by .NET and Mono, usually C#, but perhaps it could serve as pseudo-code or at least give an idea of how to begin an Emby plugin. The github project has no obvious license (open source or otherwise) listed on it that I could find. Also of note, that project has five forks, but I looked at each of them and it doesn't appear that any of them were created with an Emby version in mind and none of them seem to have added anything significant that isn't in the original, nor do they seem any more up-to-date than the original. Edited May 14, 2020 by harrv 2 1
Frankysan 0 Posted October 20, 2020 Posted October 20, 2020 I'll second this, would definitely be useful.
Suliamu 36 Posted January 4, 2024 Posted January 4, 2024 IFDB-Metadata would be an awesome addition to Emby. There is pretty good and also spectactular Fanedits out there. For example all LotR-Movies cut into one single movie.
thejacer87 9 Posted January 28, 2025 Posted January 28, 2025 4 years later... LOTR Fan Edits Hobbit Fan Edits Star Wars (Movies and Shows) Fan Edits Some of these edits elevate the viewing experience SO much. please add the IFDB (note: not IMFDB... that's a movie firearms database ) as a metadata provider
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