Video: How can I add custom UPnP properties and album Art?

[Brian]

Greetings,

Does anyone know if it's possible to add the following UPnP properties to video items? Especially the rating property.

<upnp:rating type="MPAA.ORG">PG-13</upnp:rating>
<dc:title>Some title</dc:title>
<dc:description>Some description</dc:description>

Also, how do you add DVD cover art? I've tried abcAVI (only works with AVI and won't work with large files) and Mp3Tag (won't work with MKV or large files).

Thanks

[edrikk]

Greetings,

Does anyone know if it's possible to add the following UPnP properties to video items? Especially the rating property.

<upnp:rating type="MPAA.ORG">PG-13</upnp:rating>
<dc:title>Some title</dc:title>
<dc:description>Some description</dc:description>

Also, how do you add DVD cover art? I've tried abcAVI (only works with AVI and won't work with large files) and Mp3Tag (won't work with MKV or large files).

Thanks

I would love it if Twonky could do that... :/

I don't know why TMS doesn't just use either "comment", "©lyr", or "ldes" tags for the description?

PS. For Twonky developers... If you want ot send rating type, the most common field (for MP4 files) is iTunEXTC... It's format is:

standard|rating|score|reasons


For example:
mpaa|PG-13|300|For violence and sexuality.

You should just take the value between the first pipe ("|") and the second pipe to use this...

[Twonky_Rick]

1. I'll forward your comments about rating to our developers.
2. As far as adding DVD cover art, you just drag and drop a JPG into the same folder as your movies. As long as the image has exactly the same name as the movie, it should appear as a thumbnail. Keep in mind that it's possible that not all devices display video thumbnails. As far as getting the thumbnails. I just do a Google Image search and most of the time I find what I'm looking for. Don't worry about the image size. We scale the images on the fly. I've tried several screen capture programs, but haven't found a really good free one yet. Microsoft's Expression Encoder does work O.K. for the formats it supports.

- Rick

[Bumpaneer]

Don't worry about the image size. We scale the images on the fly.

Is it possible to adjust the scaling? Images that used to look good in 5.1 on my xbox 360, now look very fuzzy in 6.0.1.

[RicoUK]

For images, I have a folder.jpg in the same folder as the movie file and the Xbox displays that correctly. Although, I have to say some of the scaling is a little crude

[JasonB]

Rick said (sorry, the quote function wasn't working for me):
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As far as adding DVD cover art, you just drag and drop a JPG into the same folder as your movies. As long as the image has exactly the same name as the movie, it should appear as a thumbnail.
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Sure would be cool if TwonkyServer could use ffmpeg or something to extract a frame a reasonable distance into the media as jpg, cache it on the file system, and use as the video thumbnail when one doesn't exist. Maybe it already does this, or maybe the functionality isn't compiled into the DNS-323 build, but I'm not seeing video thumbnails on my PS3.

I'll try to set this up as an external script tonight and see what happens; if it works, worst case I set up a cron job that does it for me