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arley86
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Help formating snapshots

Postby arley86 » 06 May 2024 20:38

Hello, im looking for a way to format my snapshots taken on the app, i read https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Format_String/ but i didnt seem to be able to find what i want, i want my snapshots to be named, whatever my filename is named, afterward some identifier like a counter or a date, thats not important, anyways, i tried with $F but the filename end sup with a lot of gibberish that i dont need, i also tried $N but for whatever reason, some of my files have a metadata changing the video metadata doesnt seem to help me eitherway, so thats not helpful, anyways looking for any sugestions if theres any, i currently have hard named the snapshot key to whatever the video is playing is named with no format strings or anything but i figured i might as if theres a better way.


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Re: Help formating snapshots

Postby synrgii » 15 May 2024 21:31

I have checked all over for this and there are no answers from what I can tell.

Everyone seems to confuse the media "title" with the "filename".
They CAN be the same for simpletons.

But many people have all sorts of other metadata in the filename.
Personally I format files with:
Year-Month-Day - Title - Artist - Album
or
Tracknumber - Title - Artist - Album (Year)

So when I take snapshots, and use $t, then I only get the Title. Incomplete...
There aren't enough of the codes to also include the year, month, and day. Incomplete...
If I use $F, then I get the whole path, with symbols instead of non-alphanumeric characters. Who actually needs that mess?

20 codes for all kinds of obscure stuff nobody cares about, yet how about a dev make a code simply for the complete filename, as it is (no weird symbols), and no Path??


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