Video Cover Art Metadata
I have ripped my DVD's and used MetaX to write all metadata including the cover art into the MP4 video files. When scanning the files, I would like the embedded cover art to be used, and if the cover art is not embedded, extract a frame from the movie and use that as the cover art. I would also like all other embedded metadata to be used, IE actor, desc, genre etc. Even though I know most renderes won't use that data.
I cannot seem to get that to work. If I use the Online metadata sources, I do get some of the cover art, and metadata. However this content all appears to come from an online source. If the movies is not detected or properly detected then I seem to get random thumbnails (Mainly "girl with a dragon tatto") and random metadata. Most all of my movies that are not properly detected are displayed with information that is nowhere relevant to the actual video. I would prefer this content to just show with a default icon from the renderer and no metadata.
If I use the nfo option, I have extracted a few NFO's, I do get the correct metadata, however the cover art appears to just be a frame from the movies and not the embedded cover art.
It seems as what I want should be possible, I just cannot figure out the right setup or ordering to make this happen.
Any suggestions or pointers to documents would be greatly appreciated.
Again I want.....
if video has embedded cover art extract and use that along with any other metadata found in video. If video does not have embedded cover art, but does have other metadata included ie title, genre, desc, actor, then extract that metadata and lookup cover art online via metadata title that was included. If no metadata at all simply extract a frame from video file and do not try to lookup metadata online.
Thanks in advance