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mamber
23rd February 2007, 13:52
Hi!

I am searching for solution to manage metadata (tags) within .mkv file, but currently didn't find any really working solution :(. And therefore, now I am using DSM (from Gabest, yeah it's great! as for me it the best when using with MPC ;) ) container for my videos, but I need much more common solution allows me to watch my movies not only under Windows (because DSM splitter works under MS OSes only).

Let me explain:

http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/7920/metadataoz0.th.png (http://img91.imageshack.us/my.php?image=metadataoz0.png)

http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/7920/metadataoz0.png

I think all of us (not only me) may need at least such five tags:
Title
Author
Description
Copyright
Rating

and of course - some tool to manage data of this tags:
1. Add
2. Edit
3. Clear
4. View

or, may be at least, how to insert above tags when muxing mkv file and then view it.

Could someone explain or provide step by step solution how to do this for Matroska (.mkv)?

P.S.: ...I know how to do that for .avi but I wanna use Matroska to store my videos, which allows to have chapters, subtitles, many audio tracks...

multicone
24th February 2007, 20:46
In mkvtoolnix you have to write a tag file in X-HTML and load it for the MKV muxing process. The easier way is to use the matroska shell extension, but i am not 100% sure if its not completely outdated and will write incorrect tags.

Your best bet is probably alexnoe's avimux-GUI from http://alexnoe.matroska.org

unskinnyboy
24th February 2007, 21:00
See this thread: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=122337