Overview

Certifications of movies and tv shows help to decide whether a movie is suitable for children and therefore important metadata.

Resources

Resource	MP2 support	Movie	worldwide	CountryCode	Documentation
MKV-Tags	no	COUNTRY > LAWRATING	Yes	biblio ISO-639-2	LAW_RATING COUNTRY
XBMC NFO files	no	mpaa certification		iso_3166_1
TheTVDb.com	no		No, US-TV only	---	ContentRating per series
TheMovieDb.com	no		Yes	iso_3166_1	movie {id} releases
IMDB.com	no		Yes, even TV Shows	iso_3166_1	Example

Description	affected components	Implemented in MP2 (no / yes, since version)	other notes / Links
Importing certification meta data	media aspects, MDE	no
Let the user choose the country for certification / rating system		no
Define Conversion rules from one system to another???		no
or fall back to another system if there is no rating for the configured system		no

Publishing meta data to system so skinners can use it		no
Display logos for the configured system		no	link to logos use in MP1

grouping / filtering by certification		no
blocking / hiding media by certification for defined users	user management	no

The MediaPortal 2 implementation can be viewed directly in source code. Thanks to TinyMediaManager for the initial structure code base.

1 Indicates whether the rating system is known to MP2.

2 Indicates whether the logos for the rating system are provided by the MP2 default skin

How should logos be provides by the default skin?

Which file name patterns should be used for the logos?

Which folder?

References