[kwlug-disc] tool for editing movie meta-data?

[Charles M]

Thanks Jeff, I'm already using handbrake-cli to shrink my Blu-ray files.
This is really helpful!

On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 12:04 PM CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I do the same thing often myself.. but there's an easy fix.  I actually
> take a bit of time every few months or so and do my entire movie collection
> in one big script, if fact.  But as I'm not as good at Bash, sed, awk,
> etc., as I would like to be, I actually do a 'ls' of all of my movie
> folders and dump that into a spreadsheet that I use each time to clean up
> the listings.
>
> My objective here is to fix just the "Title" portion of the metadata.  I'm
> sure some googling can help you fix other aspects but I really hate it when
> I see a movie in the television's listings with some meaningless title.
>
> The program you need, which I'm pretty sure comes with the CLI version of
> handbrake, is mkvpropedit.
>
> Let's say I want to clean up my copy of the 1995 nerd classic "Hackers".
> The command is easy:
>
> mkvpropedit "Hackers (1995).mkv" -e info -s title="Hackers (1995)".mkv
>
> Where the first occurrence of "Hackers" is the actual filename, while the
> second occurrence is the desired metadata title.  Writing the metadata is
> pretty much instant.
>
> Now picture this as a long list of all of your movies and you can see how
> you can clean up your entire collection in a matter of minutes.  Using a
> spreadsheet allows me to pull the desired metadata out of the actual
> filename.  But I'm sure the awk/sed/bash guys here could show how to do
> this in one simple script...
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 at 09:52, Charles M <chaslinux at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know of a tool to edit movie meta-data, something like the
>> ID3 tag editors for music?
>>
>> I just finished ripping a DVD with Handbrake and realized I didn't
>> change the meta-data in Handbrake. When I play the movie it's got a
>> different title at the top of the movie because I forgot to edit the
>> meta-data.
>>
>> It doesn't really make sense to try to re-encode the movie with
>> Handbrake, but it's the simplest way I know.
>>
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