Metadata not showing

[crs]

I spent a few hours yesterday adding metadata to over 700 movie files. They now have cd cover artwork. My WD HD TV box shows the new movie icons, but no METADATA. IE no Movie info, no ratings, no years, director... nothing. Today i plan to drop more memory into the server. Also thinking that eset nod is blocking data transfer. I would just like to see the movie info on this WD HD live box.... Any ideas??

[Bodders-11]

I don't think you will see the metadata if you are relying upon Mezzmo to feed the WDTV device. I have a WDTV SMP (Gen 3) and the information delivered to it is the same as when I connect my Panasonic Viera (2011) to mezzmo - Thumbnails derived from 'folder.jpg' and that's it.

A previous post on how to see metadata displayed was answered with 'It depends on the client's capabilities'. I don't think there is a WDTV device profile (I don't have Mezzmo installed at the moment, following a PC rebuild, and I'm waiting for 2.6 to come out).

If you want to see metadata, backdrops etc, why not use the built-in capabilities of WDTV or install a theme? I've got the Black Mamba theme installed and it looks pretty good.

Bodders

[crs]

Theme looks great, will test that out today. Server running mizzmo likes the xtra memory. No network errors in logs, packet loss nada.

[Paul]

Mezzmo delivers the metadata (such as title, genre, album, artist, artwork, etc.) to your device, but it is up to your device to display it. Each device implements their DLNA differently and displays different presentations of folders & files. I think the WD TV Live has various modes for viewing lists of videos (preview mode, thumbnail mode & list mode). Check your remote control buttons when you list videos and see if you can change mode.

[crs]

Thanks for the support Paul. Yes the WD TV Live has 3 or 4 menue choices. non show the movie info. I am running ThumbGen on my movie collection. Will see how it goes.

[Bodders-11]

Paul,
The metadata parameters used by WDTV seem to be subtly but significantly different to Mezzmo's. If you recall I raised the issue of how to consolidate the amount of metadata to be maintained as WDTV does not recognise MYMovies.xml files. You hinted that maybe, just maybe, Mezzmo would support WDTV XML data in the future.

Bodders

[Paul]

We have had several requests for supporting the non-DLNA, proprietary features of WD TV Live models. Given the popularity of the various WD TV Live models, we will certainly look into these features and support as many as possible for a future version of Mezzmo.