Metadata on my TV
The genre, plot, key actors, audience rating and even recording quality are often all pertinent to the decision on what to watch. Which means cranking up my favorite 3rd. party media manager on my laptop and scanning through for something that caught my fancy to watch.
Wouldn't it be nice if Serviio could provide this metadata direct to your TV. I understand work is being done to improve Serviio's support for metadata but I got bored waiting.
I cobbled together some code to take the exported data from my media manager and data from MKVmerge to build a short (25 second) movie for each movie in my library and placed them alongside the original movie (same folder) for Serviio to pick up. Now Each of my movies is accompanied by a metadata movie. See example below.
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