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I have non-movie and non-television show .mp4 videos that I share with friends and family for their own Plex servers. As the video information isn’t going to be in an online database I’m trying to edit the containers metadata before sharing them so it will prepopulate in Plex with the file’s metadata.
We all have our servers set for a library of “Other Videos” using the “Plex Video Files Scanner” scanner, the “Personal Media” agent, and have “Local Media Assets (Movies)” enabled in settings.
I’m using Mp3tag to edit my .mp4 containers’ metadata.
Despite not being able to find any documentation, I’ve figured out some metadata fields and their correlation in Plex:
Plex: Studio; Metadata: COPYRIGHT; Text string
Plex: Summary; Metadata: DESCRIPTION; Text string
Plex: Genres; Metadata: GENRE; One entry, text string with multiple genres separated with " / ".
Plex: Content Rating; Metadata: ITUNEXTC; Text string like “tv-us|TV-PG|400|For language and brief nudity” (some notes below)
Plex: Directors; Metadata: ITUNMOVI; XML string (some notes below)
Plex: Sort Title; Metadata: TITLESORT; Text string
Plex: Poster; Not a metadata field, just an embedded image (I’m not sure what Mp3tag is doing behind the scenes)
I need help with these fields, and was hoping someone can help me:
Plex: Title; I know there are several TITLE metadata fields, but none seem to work. I also know the filename can be used, but filenames have some character restrictions that may be desired to have in a video title.
Plex: Original Title
Plex: Edition
Plex: Originally Available
Plex: Rating; The RATING metadata field doesn’t seem to work.
Plex: Tagline; The TAGLINE metadata field doesn’t seem to work.
Plex: Country; The COUNTRY metadata field doesn’t seem to work.
Plex: Writers
Plex: Producers
Plex: Collections
Plex: Labels
Plex: Background
Plex: Cast
Notes about:
Content Rating - I haven’t been able to confirm this, but it seems like there are fields separated by pipes, the first is the rating system, then their rating, then a number used to sort rating severity with higher numbers being more adult related, and the last field is used to explain the rating.
Directors - It’s a long XML string, here it is for two directors: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>directorsnameFirst DirectornameSecond Director
