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

[CrankyOldBugger]

Right, mkvtoolnix.  I forgot about that.  But now that you say the name my
memory is coming back...


On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 at 12:35, Charles M <chaslinux at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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