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Yeah my mistake. I guess with the way mkv tags are structured that makes sense.
But man is that stuff counter-intuitive.

I tired the tags out with the newest nightly (vlc-2.1.0-git-20121006-0404) and it seems that something else broke.

The title-tag is now displayed in the Album-field:


On the plus side everything else seems to be working.

Ah cool. Thx

Ah those one liners. They are sometimes hard to decipher. Are you telling me that you just added that and it will be in a future version, or that it is already in there and should work?
If the latter, it does not work.

Thx, that helps a lot. Still missing the tag for the "Encoded by" field and I would really like to use that, though.

OK.

So for this field there doesn't exist a corresponding tag?

Well if the date thing is a bug, at least it's not my fault.

Thx, that helps a lot. Still missing the tag for the "Encoded by" field and I would really like to use that, though.
Also can you tell me in what format DATE_RELEASE has to be? If I put "1998", VLC will display "20"

Did you try mkvmerge to set the metadata? That's what I'm merging the xml file with, yes. And it does work. Like I said, I was able to set the copyright, comment and genre tag. http://matroska.org/technical/specs/tagging/index.html Yeah those tags don't correspond to the VLC fields. That's my main ...

At the moment I'm trying to fill in meta data in an mkv, via xml-file. Sadly I can not find any documentation about what the required tag names are. I figured out a few, like "DESCRIPTION" for the field "Comments" but others allude me. For example you would think "DATE"...