MP3's, AIFF's and other audio files contain metadata fields, which makes it possible for iTunes and other audio players to categorize these files based on criteria like artist, album, genre and year.
Do MPEG's have seperate meta data fields? Or only one?
I've been looking for a videoplayer to categorize my MPEG2 collection. But maybe this is impossible?
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Last edited by HitTheRoad; 30th Oct 2011 at 04:58.
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Switch to a WDTV Live Plus box and a TB drive.
You can then hook that up to the tv and
not have to worry about transcoding,
and you can catergorize, index, thumbnail, etc
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@ terryj,
I'm afraid your WDTV Live Plus Box doesn't write metadata into the video files. If you connect your TB drive to another WDRV Live Plus Box there will be no data. -
The MPEG containers (Program and Transport Streams) do not have "global headers", and are not supposed to contain "fancy metadata" fields. The "ID Tags" for MP3 are an "un-official" extension to the MPEG-Audio elementary stream.
Notwithstanding, you could safely remux MPG files into MKVs or MP4s, which were properly designed to support "fancy metadata". -
@ El Heggunte,
So MKVs and MP4s are the only video files that support/contain 'fancy' metadata fields?
What about M4V's? Lostify claimes it can tag these files. It also claimes you need Lostify to tag MP4s, because iTunes can't:
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/20183/lostify
Unfortunately Lostify is discontinued. But there seem to be alternatives:
http://www.m4.com/blog/apple-tv/tagging-movies-for-itunes-and-apple-tv/Last edited by HitTheRoad; 30th Oct 2011 at 05:18.
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You are correct, I forgot to mention .ASF and .AVI --- but N.B.,
most applications do not read metadata from an AVI container.
What about M4V's? Lostify claimes it can tag these files. It also claimes you need Lostify to tag MP4s, because iTunes can't:
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/20183/lostify
Unfortunately Lostify is discontinued. But there seem to be alternatives:
http://www.m4.com/blog/apple-tv/tagging-movies-for-itunes-and-apple-tv/
is also sometimes used for video in MP4 container format »
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP4#.MP4_versus_.M4A_filename_extensions )Last edited by El Heggunte; 30th Oct 2011 at 12:52. Reason: better wording
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