Sony PMB (Play Memories Home) vs Mezzmo 2.60

[mezzmo@mvg.za.net]

Have Been waiting for Mezzmo 2.6 to be released and rushed home to try out the "New: Support for reading Sony PMB metadata files."

This seems to work for most of the files I have, but in the first directory I looked at there is one file that does not work.

The file looks as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<plist version="1.0"><dict><key>MetaDataList</key><array><dict><key>DateTimeOriginal</key><real>41041.719895833332000</real><key>IsEdited</key><true/></dict></array><key>XMLFileType</key><string>ModdXML</string></dict></plist>

From Excel, the date/time field 41041.719895833332000 translates to 2012/05/12 05:16:39 PM, however the properties of the file list as follows:
Created: 17 May 2012 07:59:41 PM
Modified:17 May 2012 07:59:43 PM
Accessed: 17 May 2012 07:59:41 PM

I have run Maintain Library with both "Update all Files" as well as "Only update files with missing information", with no effect.

The file is question is an edited home movie - the reason for the current date and time is that I tried to create a new file in case the was a problem with the original file.

I have attached the .modd file for reference.

Any ideas why this one file will not update the meta data?

Thanks
Mark

[Paul]

Can you post the contents of a .modd file that does work? That will let us compare the differences and work out what may be going wrong.

[mezzmo@mvg.za.net]

263Attached is one that does work. What I have noticed is that edited files do not seem to work and they have less info in the .modd file.

[Paul]

Thanks - we have just fixed the issue and it will be included in the minor update (v2.6.1) that will be released shortly.

[mezzmo@mvg.za.net]

Wow... that was quick. What is different about the two files? Just curious - information junkie talking :-)

[Paul]

What is different about the two files?

The XML formatting was slightly different between the PMB .modd files and Mezzmo's PMB .modd XML parser did not take into the account the variation that you found.

[mezzmo@mvg.za.net]

Any idea why the Duration field for the home videos would be 0h00m? I see that there is a Duration field in the XML file.

It seems that the duration is 0h00m for the home movies but OK for Music Videos and DVD Rips.

Thanks
Mark

[Paul]

We'll check out the duration and see if there is a problem. Thanks for reporting this.

[mezzmo@mvg.za.net]

Hi Paul

I just tested this again with the 2.6.1 version - Still the same result. The edited video file meta data does not update.

Attached is the .modd file (new).264

I performed a maintain library for all as well as missing data only witht he same result.

Any suggestions?

Mark

[Paul]

OK - we'll re-test it here with your .modd file. We'll post back here after testing it.

[mezzmo@mvg.za.net]

Hi Paul

Just did some further testing and it seems that some of the data updated is not correct as per the .modd file for the specific video. Some of the dates are 1 or 2 days out etc.

I assume that the Create Date is what is being populated by the metadata.

I look forward to your feedback.

Mark

[Paul]

Upon further analysis, it seems we are only extracting the year from the Sony PMB .modd file (see Properties dialog in Mezzmo for displayed year) and not the full created date. We'll fix that up. Contact us at support [at] conceiva [dot] com and we can supply you with a patch to try.

[mezzmo@mvg.za.net]

Mail sent. Look forward to the patch.

Thanks
mark

[mezzmo@mvg.za.net]

Hi Paul

Thanks, this is now working well.

Can you just clarify when the .modd files will now be read.

From what I can see a "new" video with its .modd file is read as soon as the directory containing the video is opened in Mezzmo.

Is it possible to update the function from Properties, Video, Get Properties from File to also update these fields?

As I posted in another thread the Maintain Library/Maintain Playlist want to Maintain too many files if you have just made a single change. It sesm to make sense to use the existing function to maintain just the changed file?

Thanks
Mark

[Paul]

Hi Mark,

Glad it is working now. Thanks for your help testing this.

We'll add the fix into the next upcoming Mezzmo release. Or, if any user wants the patch now for fixing reading dates from Sony PMB .modd files, please contact us at support [at] conceiva [dot] com.