In iTunes, in order to combine two items under one listing in the library, both
items must have
the same cnID and one must be marked as HD. Until recently, the items also had
to be marked as
music videos or TV shows, with the corresponding stik value. This created an
issue as then
movies could not be combined without a workaround involving crappy iTunes
tagging, which
wasn't really a solution because the tags on the actual files did not change.
With the release of HD movies on iTunes today, I took the opportunity to use an
old iTunes gift
card to buy an HD movie and see how they combined movies. It turns out that
iTunes uses stik 9
for the new HD/SD movies instead of 0. I'm not sure when this change was made,
or if it is
across all movies, but it definitely seems to be store policy with HD movies at
least. NightStorm
noted on IRC that the option for 'Short Film' in the iTunes 'tagging' interface
disappeared in 8.0,
so the switchover probably happened then.
To the point, mp4tags should be changed to use 9 instead of 0 for the stik
value for movies.
Attached are two mp4file --dumps (one for the SD version of W. from the iTunes
store, one for
the HD version of W. from the iTunes store) in a ZIP file.
Original issue reported on code.google.com by refulgentis@gmail.com on 20 Mar 2009 at 4:05
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
refulgentis@gmail.com
on 20 Mar 2009 at 4:05Attachments: