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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" would fill in "Date" or "ENCODED_BY" "Encoded by", but nope.

Is there documentation about this somewhere?

I searched the Wiki and googled my butt off, no luck.

Hope you guys can help.

Did you try mkvmerge to set the metadata?

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 problem.
As mentioned above, for example ENCODED_BY and DATE do not work. They show up under "Metadata", but I want them filling in their specific fields under "General", like it works with the copyright, comment and genre tags.

It seems we use DATE_RELEASE, "TITLE", "ARTIST", "GENRE", "COPYRIGHT", "DESCRIPTION", PUBLISHER", "URL", "PART_NUMBER, "TOTAL_PARTS", "DATE_RELEASE"

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"

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

OK.

Also can you tell me in what format DATE_RELEASE has to be? If I put "1998", VLC will display "20"

Seems a very weird bug of VLC compiled on Win32

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.

OK.

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

http://pastie.org/4558536

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.

This is a patch to be added, in the mainline for it to work.

Done for 2.1

Ah cool. Thx

And Date and albums are fixed for 2.1 too.

I'm running the latest VLC (2.03), but I still see the date showing as 23, when the DATE_RELEASE (which is what the post said, even though the Matroksa doc says it should be DATE_RELEASED, which I added as well) tag has 2007-06-28 in it.

Also you mentioned that Album was fixed. What tag name are you using for album.

Is there any interest in supporting more of the MKV tags, to match what is displayed for MP4's?

Thanks,

Dan

I'm running the latest VLC (2.03), but I still see the date showing as 23, when the DATE_RELEASE (which is what the post said, even though the Matroksa doc says it should be DATE_RELEASED, which I added as well) tag has 2007-06-28 in it.

I said 2.1....

Also you mentioned that Album was fixed. What tag name are you using for album.

TITLE, at the album level.

Is there any interest in supporting more of the MKV tags, to match what is displayed for MP4's?

Like?

Sorry for the delayed response, I guess I wasn't subscribed to the thread and didn't get notification. Anyway, some useful fields would be rating, director, studio, and perhaps screenwriter. Of these rating would be the most important.

Thanks,

Dan

Did you try 2.1?

I just downloaded it yesterday. I'll install it and test it out today and post back.

Thanks,

Dan

OK, date and album now work, and I can see all the other info on the MetaTags tab. For me, having rating and director on the main display screen would be more interesting than encoded by and publisher. Also, what is the Now Playing field meant to display?

Thanks,
Dan

The now playing tag.

I don't see a Now Playing tag defined in MKV. Do you know what the semantics of the tag are?

MKV is not the only format around.

I don't see it as a defined tag in AVI or in MP4. If you don't know what it means, fine. If you do could you just say so.

Ogg supports it. ASF supports it. This is for radios.