Skin-based media flagging

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As provided by MIP, and supported by XBMC skins AEON, Serenity, and more. This 
is essentially 
the ability to add MediaInfo-sourced movie file properties to the <studio> tag 
in the movie's 
.nfo, as follows:

<studio>studio name / resolution / video codec / audio format / number of 
channels / language 
/ subtitle language1/ subtitle language2... </studio>

More information (from http://www.xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=50312)

1) AEON can show Media Flags for the Source, Resolution, Studio, Audio, 
Subtitles and Parental 
Rating portions of a Movie

2) The 'Source' of a movie CANNOT be determined from the video file itself, for 
this reason AEON 
will parse the FILENAME for a relevant string (see list below).
To my mind this could be improved by ALSO parsing the <Studio> tag in the NFO 
file (since a 
user could PUT the info in there)

3) The Resolution, Studio, Audio and Subtitle portions of a Movie are read from 
the <Studio> tag 
of the NFO file for a movie.
This is a kludge to overcome the limitation of tags in NFO files. I personally 
would have preferred 
the invention of new explicit tags, but that's just me

4) The recommended formatting of the <Studio> tag is:
<studio>studio name / resolution / video codec / audio format / number of 
channels / language 
/ subtitle language1/ subtitle language2... </studio>
Here's a real world example
<studio>Lionsgate / SDp / WMV3 / WMA2 / 2ch / Sub /</studio>

5) AEON is not as smart as you'd think and actually pays NO heed to the 
recommended 
formatting!
The way AEON finds the Resolution, Studio and Audio portions on a movie is by 
simple String 
searching within the <Studio> tag. This is not even EXACT matching, it's 
substring matching, so 
whilst AEON looks for 'Fox', it will find 'Fox' in '20th Century Fox' and 
'Twentieth Century Fox' 
etc. 

6) AEON will deduce the Audio format of a movie by looking at BOTH the Audio 
Format and the 
Number Of Channels
This means that:
AC-3, 6ch = DD5.1
AC-3, 8ch = DD7.1
DTS, 6ch = DTS5.1
DTS, 8ch = DTS7.1
2ch = DOLBY (this is technically an incorrect assumption, but that's the way it 
works today)

Original issue reported on code.google.com by roamer...@gmail.com on 5 Jun 2009 at 5:42

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This is already in Ember. Enable "Use Media Info Studio Tags"

Original comment by jason.schnitzler on 5 Jun 2009 at 5:48

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Original comment by jason.schnitzler on 14 Jun 2009 at 8:49

• Changed state: Verified