I am using TMS on Ubuntu and it runs great; use it with WDTV Live.
Now for the content. Of course everybody knows that Music needs ID tags. Perfect.
But what about videos? 1) I don't know if TMS can handle such tags and 2) I don't know how to apply tags to my .divx or other video files.
No Howto on the Twonky site - rubbish results in Google.
Has THE WORLD a big green field lying out there? Is Folder trees the only solution? Any vision from Twonky?
I would appreciate a general statement in the Announcements or alike.
Thanks, Frederik
DVD and Video Metadata or Tags
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don
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Re: DVD and Video Metadata or Tags
I'm in a similar situation - I've got a bunch of DVDs ripped as VOB files and am evaluating Twonky as a media server solution for streaming to PCs running XBMC or Boxee and eventually to a PS3 I hope to buy later this year. I've used an application called Media Companion to build metadata databases on them all, but I haven't found a way to attach tags to the VOB files themselves so that Twonky can understand them and give me anything other than a folder-based list of movies. I've seen mention here of an editor called ABCavi, but as the name suggests it's a tool for AVIs and I couldn't get it to recognize VOBs. It would be nice if Twonky supported the .NFO file tag format used by XBMC as there are several nice editors out there that produce these.
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Re: DVD and Video Metadata or Tags
Does MPEG2/VOB even support metadata in the standard?
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don
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Re: DVD and Video Metadata or Tags
I don't know - every search I've tried for "VOB metadata", "VOB tag", "MPEG2 metadata", etc., has come up mostly with link to MP3 tag editor downloads.
Re: DVD and Video Metadata or Tags
I don't think vob supports tagging. Mpeg-2 is a standard, not a container, so....
I would recommend that you convert your vob files to H.264 video, AAC audio streams in MP4 container. At least that way you'll have a standardized tag format for your files which holds albumart, etc, etc within the container, and Twonky (amongst almost all others) reads the metadata.
MP3Tag can edit/add/remove MP4 file tags.
I would recommend XVid4PSP to convert your vobs to MP4 (using X264 and Nero's AAC encoder). It makes the process very simple.
If you're worried about quality, just use a very high quality setting....
I would recommend that you convert your vob files to H.264 video, AAC audio streams in MP4 container. At least that way you'll have a standardized tag format for your files which holds albumart, etc, etc within the container, and Twonky (amongst almost all others) reads the metadata.
MP3Tag can edit/add/remove MP4 file tags.
I would recommend XVid4PSP to convert your vobs to MP4 (using X264 and Nero's AAC encoder). It makes the process very simple.
If you're worried about quality, just use a very high quality setting....