Video Tags Example

Introduction

Video content usually doesn't have tags in the file. But that doesn't mean it's a good thing. Here are some real-life examples where it makes sense to have tags. As for audio you can have all video parts of a bigger ensemble in the same file or in smaller files.

Basic movie

Here is a very basic example of how you would add the title, director, date of release and comment about a movie on one DVD.

  • Tags
    • Tag (about the movie)
      • SimpleTag
        • TagName = "TITLE"
        • TagString = "Dune"
      • SimpleTag
        • TagName = "DIRECTOR"
        • TagString = "David Lynch"
      • SimpleTag
        • TagName = "DATE_RELEASE"
        • TagString = "1984"
      • SimpleTag
        • TagName = "COMMENT"
        • TagString = "One of the best sci-fi movies."

Bigger example

Let's consider the Simpsons DVDs. You have a set of DVDs, each containing a few episodes of a whole season. The episodes would be spanned as follows :

  • Season 1
    • DVD #1 (Chapter UID = 98)
      • Episode 1 (Chapter UID = 123)
        • Intro (Chapter UID = 963)
        • Episode content (Chapter UID = 852)
        • Credits (Chapter UID = 741)
      • Episode 2 (Chapter UID = 234)
        • Intro (Chapter UID = 159)
        • Episode content (Chapter UID = 267)
        • Credits (Chapter UID = 348)
      • Episode 3 (Chapter UID = 345)
        • Intro
        • Episode content
        • Credits
      • Episode 4 (Chapter UID = 456)
        • Intro
        • Episode content
        • Credits
    • DVD #2 (Chapter UID = 87)
      • Episode 5 (Chapter UID = 567)
        • Intro
        • Episode content
        • Credits
      • Episode 6 (Chapter UID = 678)
        • Intro
        • Episode content
        • Credits
      • Episode 7 (Chapter UID = 789)
        • Intro
        • Episode content
        • Credits
      • Episode 8 (Chapter UID = 890)
        • Intro
        • Episode content
        • Credits

One file with all DVDs

In this case the file contains one continuous video track with all episodes one after the other. Chapters are used to virtually split the content in many parts, ie the DVDs, the episodes and chapters. A good ripping application would rip the DVDs with the same structure as above as nested chapters.

Now let's see how a basic tagging of this file would work :

  • Tags
    • Tag (about the season)
      • Targets (no target means the whole content of the file, otherwise you can put all matching ChapterUIDs)
        • TargetTypeValue = 60
        • TargetType = "SEASON"
      • SimpleTag
        • TagName = "TITLE"
        • TagString = "The Simpsons"
      • SimpleTag
        • TagName = "DATE_RELEASE"
        • TagString = "1989"
      • SimpleTag (note there is no TOTAL_PARTS of seasons as the series is not stopped)
        • TagName = "PART_NUMBER"
        • TagString = "1"
      • SimpleTag (the number of episodes)
        • TagName = "TOTAL_PARTS"
        • TagString = "8"
    • Tag (about an episode)
      • Targets
        • ChapterUID = 123
        • TargetTypeValue = 50
        • TargetType = "EPISODE"
      • SimpleTag
        • TagName = "TITLE"
        • TagString = "The Simpsons family"
      • SimpleTag (the number of the episode in this DVD)
        • TagName = "PART_NUMBER"
        • TagString = "1"
    • Tag (about a part of the episode)
      • Targets (the intro is the same for episode 1 & episode 2, so we target both chapters)
        • ChapterUID = 963
        • ChapterUID = 159
        • TargetTypeValue = 30
        • TargetType = "CHAPTER"
      • SimpleTag (no need for a PART_NUMBER for this, but you can have one)
        • TagName = "TITLE"
        • TagString = "first intro ever"
    • Tag (about a part of the episode)
      • Targets
        • ChapterUID = 852
        • TargetTypeValue = 30
        • TargetType = "CHAPTER"
      • SimpleTag
        • TagName = "TITLE"
        • TagString = "episode 1 content"
    • Tag (about an episode)
      • Targets
        • ChapterUID = 234
        • TargetTypeValue = 50
        • TargetType = "EPISODE"
      • SimpleTag
        • TagName = "TITLE"
        • TagString = "The Simpsons 2nd round"
      • SimpleTag
        • TagName = "PART_NUMBER"
        • TagString = "2"
    • Tag (about an episode)
      • Targets
        • ChapterUID = 345
        • TargetTypeValue = 50
        • TargetType = "EPISODE"
      • SimpleTag
        • TagName = "TITLE"
        • TagString = "Homer is lazy"
      • SimpleTag
        • TagName = "PART_NUMBER"
        • TagString = "3"
    • Tag (about an episode)
      • Targets
        • ChapterUID = 456
        • TargetTypeValue = 50
        • TargetType = "EPISODE"
      • SimpleTag
        • TagName = "TITLE"
        • TagString = "Bart is naughty"
      • SimpleTag
        • TagName = "PART_NUMBER"
        • TagString = "4"
    • Tag (about an episode)
      • Targets
        • ChapterUID = 567
        • TargetTypeValue = 50
        • TargetType = "EPISODE"
      • SimpleTag
        • TagName = "TITLE"
        • TagString = "Lisa goes to school"
      • SimpleTag
        • TagName = "PART_NUMBER"
        • TagString = "5"
    • etc...

One file per DVD

Now let's split this one file in pieces. The big difference is that the SEASON info are repeated in each files :

DVD #1 / File #1

  • Tags
    • Tag (about the season)
      • Targets (no target means the whole content of the file, otherwise you can put all matching ChapterUIDs)
        • TargetTypeValue = 60
        • TargetType = "SEASON"
      • SimpleTag
        • TagName = "TITLE"
        • TagString = "The Simpsons"
      • SimpleTag
        • TagName = "DATE_RELEASE"
        • TagString = "1989"
      • SimpleTag (there is not TOTAL_PARTS of seasons as the series is not stopped)
        • TagName = "PART_NUMBER"
        • TagString = "1"
      • SimpleTag (the number of episodes in the season)
        • TagName = "TOTAL_PART"
        • TagString = "8"
    • Tag (about an episode)
      • Targets
        • ChapterUID = 123
        • TargetTypeValue = 50
        • TargetType = "EPISODE"
      • SimpleTag
        • TagName = "TITLE"
        • TagString = "The Simpsons family"
      • SimpleTag (the number of the episode in this file)
        • TagName = "PART_NUMBER"
        • TagString = "1"
    • Tag (about a part of the episode)
      • Targets (the intro is the same for episode 1 & episode 2, so we target both chapters)
        • ChapterUID = 963
        • ChapterUID = 159
        • TargetTypeValue = 30
        • TargetType = "CHAPTER"
      • SimpleTag (no need for a PART_NUMBER for this, but you can have one)
        • TagName = "TITLE"
        • TagString = "first intro ever"
    • Tag (about a part of the episode)
      • Targets
        • ChapterUID = 852
        • TargetTypeValue = 30
        • TargetType = "CHAPTER"
      • SimpleTag
        • TagName = "TITLE"
        • TagString = "episode 1 content"
    • Tag (about an episode)
      • Targets
        • ChapterUID = 234
        • TargetTypeValue = 50
        • TargetType = "EPISODE"
      • SimpleTag
        • TagName = "TITLE"
        • TagString = "The Simpsons 2nd round"
      • SimpleTag
        • TagName = "PART_NUMBER"
        • TagString = "2"
    • Tag (about an episode)
      • Targets
        • ChapterUID = 345
        • TargetTypeValue = 50
        • TargetType = "EPISODE"
      • SimpleTag
        • TagName = "TITLE"
        • TagString = "Homer is lazy"
      • SimpleTag
        • TagName = "PART_NUMBER"
        • TagString = "3"
    • Tag (about an episode)
      • Targets
        • ChapterUID = 456
        • TargetTypeValue = 50
        • TargetType = "EPISODE"
      • SimpleTag
        • TagName = "TITLE"
        • TagString = "Bart is naughty"
      • SimpleTag
        • TagName = "PART_NUMBER"
        • TagString = "4"

DVD #2 / File #2

  • Tags
    • Tag (about the season)
      • Targets (no target means the whole content of the file, otherwise you can put all matching ChapterUIDs)
        • TargetTypeValue = 60
        • TargetType = "SEASON"
      • SimpleTag
        • TagName = "TITLE"
        • TagString = "The Simpsons"
      • SimpleTag
        • TagName = "DATE_RELEASE"
        • TagString = "1989"
      • SimpleTag (there is not TOTAL_PARTS of seasons as the series is not stopped)
        • TagName = "PART_NUMBER"
        • TagString = "1"
      • SimpleTag (the number of episodes in the season)
        • TagName = "TOTAL_PART"
        • TagString = "8"
    • Tag (about an episode)
      • Targets
        • ChapterUID = 567
        • TargetTypeValue = 50
        • TargetType = "EPISODE"
      • SimpleTag
        • TagName = "TITLE"
        • TagString = "Lisa goes to school"
      • SimpleTag (episode one of this season)
        • TagName = "PART_NUMBER"
        • TagString = "5"
    • Tag (about an episode)
      • Targets
        • ChapterUID = 678
        • TargetTypeValue = 50
        • TargetType = "EPISODE"
      • SimpleTag
        • TagName = "TITLE"
        • TagString = "Marge gets pregnant"
      • SimpleTag (episode one of this season)
        • TagName = "PART_NUMBER"
        • TagString = "6"
    • etc...

One file per episode

In this case we have 8 files, one for each episode.

Episode 1 / File #1

  • Tags
    • Tag (about the season)
      • Targets (no target means the whole content of the file, otherwise you can put all matching ChapterUIDs)
        • TargetTypeValue = 60
        • TargetType = "SEASON"
      • SimpleTag
        • TagName = "TITLE"
        • TagString = "The Simpsons"
      • SimpleTag
        • TagName = "DATE_RELEASE"
        • TagString = "1989"
      • SimpleTag (there is not TOTAL_PARTS of seasons as the series is not stopped)
        • TagName = "PART_NUMBER"
        • TagString = "1"
      • SimpleTag (the number of episode in ths season)
        • TagName = "TOTAL_PART"
        • TagString = "8"
    • Tag (about an episode)
      • Targets (as always, no need to specify a target at it spans the whole file/segment, but you can)
        • TargetTypeValue = 50
        • TargetType = "EPISODE"
      • SimpleTag
        • TagName = "TITLE"
        • TagString = "The Simpsons family"
      • SimpleTag (the number of the episode in this DVD)
        • TagName = "PART_NUMBER"
        • TagString = "1"
    • Tag (about a part of the episode)
      • Targets (here the chapter target is needed)
        • ChapterUID = 963
        • TargetTypeValue = 30
        • TargetType = "CHAPTER"
      • SimpleTag (no need for a PART_NUMBER for this, but you can have one)
        • TagName = "TITLE"
        • TagString = "first intro ever"
    • Tag (about a part of the episode)
      • Targets
        • ChapterUID = 852
        • TargetTypeValue = 30
        • TargetType = "CHAPTER"
      • SimpleTag
        • TagName = "TITLE"
        • TagString = "episode 1 content"

Episode 2 / File #2

  • Tags
    • Tag (about the season)
      • Targets (no target means the whole content of the file, otherwise you can put all matching ChapterUIDs)
        • TargetTypeValue = 60
        • TargetType = "SEASON"
      • SimpleTag
        • TagName = "TITLE"
        • TagString = "The Simpsons"
      • SimpleTag
        • TagName = "DATE_RELEASE"
        • TagString = "1989"
      • SimpleTag (there is not TOTAL_PARTS of seasons as the series is not stopped)
        • TagName = "PART_NUMBER"
        • TagString = "1"
      • SimpleTag (the number of episode in the season)
        • TagName = "TOTAL_PART"
        • TagString = "8"
    • Tag (about the episode)
      • Targets
        • TargetTypeValue = 50
        • TargetType = "EPISODE"
      • SimpleTag
        • TagName = "TITLE"
        • TagString = "The Simpsons 2nd round"
      • SimpleTag
        • TagName = "PART_NUMBER"
        • TagString = "2"

etc...

Episode 5 / File #5

  • Tags
    • Tag (about the season)
      • Targets (no target means the whole content of the file, otherwise you can put all matching ChapterUIDs)
        • TargetTypeValue = 60
        • TargetType = "SEASON"
      • SimpleTag
        • TagName = "TITLE"
        • TagString = "The Simpsons"
      • SimpleTag
        • TagName = "DATE_RELEASE"
        • TagString = "1989"
      • SimpleTag (there is not TOTAL_PARTS of seasons as the series is not stopped)
        • TagName = "PART_NUMBER"
        • TagString = "1"
      • SimpleTag (the number of episodes in the season)
        • TagName = "TOTAL_PART"
        • TagString = "8"
    • Tag (about an episode)
      • Targets
        • ChapterUID = 567
        • TargetTypeValue = 50
        • TargetType = "EPISODE"
      • SimpleTag
        • TagName = "TITLE"
        • TagString = "Lisa goes to school"
      • SimpleTag (episode one of this season)
        • TagName = "PART_NUMBER"
        • TagString = "5"

etc...