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

[Charles M]

Incidentally mkvpropedit is a part of mkvtoolnix, not handbrake-cli. It
worked perfectly and was a lot quicker than re-encoding the whole thing.
Thanks again Jeff!


On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 12:24 PM Charles M <chaslinux at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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