Overview

MediaPortal 2 is able to match your files correctly by reading the tags of mkv files.

This allows unique identification without any user interaction and completely independent from any file or folder structure.

Usual issues & problems

Sample issues / problematic scenarios:

General infos about Matroska & tags

The official website of Matroska is http://matroska.org/. Information about the specification of tags are also available: http://matroska.org/technical/specs/...ing/index.html

For muxing media files like avi, mp4, etc. into a mkv it is suggested to use MkvToolnix. While muxing you can include a xml tag file and define almost every property like default streams (video/audio/subtitle), forced streams (subtitle) and stream languages.

For batch scripting of a whole collection of media files you also can use Lehmden's Video2Mkv.

For creating xml tag files or tag existing mkv files you can use MkvTagger (work in progress).

Examples

• Movie examples
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• Series examples
  For matching an episode of a TVSeries, it is only needed to get the series title, the season index and the episode index. The following example contains the minimum required information. All other metadata is being downloaded from TheTVDb.com.