Imported meta-data for TV shows?
Let me start by saying I just recently found Mezzmo and it just makes me sad I didn't find it earlier. It is AMAZING. I'm using it to feed videos to my Samsung D6000 series, and playing with other clients as well (Xbox 360, Panasonic VT25, etc). Everything is working well right out of the box, but I do have a couple of questions:
Library maintenance / Mezzmo desktop app
Does the Mezzmo desktop app have to open for the library to be updated? I have scheduled a daily update in the options, but I'm hoping the update can happen via a background service, as the PC doesn't always have a user logged in. Is there any other part of the service that depends on the Mezzmo app running?
Metadata importing for video files
When I setup the service it automagically imported all the XBMC .nfo files for my videos. In general this worked perfectly, except around television shows. First, some background:
My videos are stored on network shares, one share for movies (one movie per folder in that share), one for Television. On the television share, the structure looks like this:
Code:
\\{server}\{share}\{tvshow}\{season}\{episode}.mkv
example:
\\homeserver\television\fringe\Season 3\3x01 - Olivia.mkv
The imported metadata places the episode name into "Title", the actors into "Artist" and the containing folder into "Album" (which in the above example means Album = "Season 3"). The show name does not appear to be imported. The air date also appears to be imported even though it is not shown in the Mezzmo property page, as my Samsung TV displays it. While this metadata import is not super important when browsing the content by folders, it breaks down when using the cool playlists capabilities of Mezzmo's library system.
So my question is, can this import logic be customized on a per-share basis? For my television share, I'd rather be tagged with the show title in Album, a customized version of the episode title (using a string replacement) that includes the episode number in Title ("1|24 - Olivia" for example), and episode number in Track. I wish there was a logical place to put the season number, but I don't see one...
Can this be done? I think this could allow for much more compelling action playlists around Television series, for example.
Lastly, is it possible to have custom or additional keywords/property types? I'd love to have a property that let me specify if the video is a Movie, or TV Show, or Other for use with Smart playlists (although in my case, maybe I could use the file path matching.... hmmm.)
Clearly I have more experimenting to do, but I can't wait! Thanks again, -james
MyMovies.xml data mapping
Dennis, you mention earlier in this thread that a lot of customisation of the metadata Mezzmo uses is available by using mymovies.xml and series.xml files from MyMovies application. Can you give a list of the data mapping mezzmo uses when it extracts tags from these files, i.e. which xml tag map to which mezzmo field?
I'm streaming video to a Samsung C TV and I want to use the Album field in Mezzmo to hold the name of a TV series and then use a "smart playlist" to give a view of all episodes by season. I get most of the metadata from MyMovies but I can't see which tag can be used to populate the Album field, which at the moment is picking up the folder name that the video files are in - episode 1, episode 2 & etc. I hope you follow all this!!
Since there is quite a range of metadata file types supported I assume there must be some sort of order of preference which the data is taken in if more than one file type is present. Knowing this would also be useful.
The same applies to thumbnails. I have created thumbnails specifically for my Samsung and put these in the folder as filename.jpg but the cover art reference in mymovies.xml seems to take precedence in Mezzmo's scheme of things. Is this so?
Regards
SteveG