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Video

Video is an electronic medium of visual media. This entry will mostly be focused on movies, tv shows an other media such as YouTube aswell as its metadata. For webcams navigate to the webcams entry.

It is nice to have some movies, tv shows or other videos saved on your system. There are multiple different approaches on how to get it working depending on your needs. In general you need to consider if you want the video directly on your pc or access a server for it.

Players

If you want to keep your system clean of much data, you can use this kind of setup. There are differences depending on your preffered client interface.

Plex is a dockerizable media streaming service with web-interface.
Jellyfin is a foss dockerizable media streaming service with web-interface.

For local video files a simple video player can be used.

mpv is a cross-platform command line video player.

Scan DVDs/Blu-Rays

You can convert your DVDs and Blu-Rays to files on your computer. This way you don't have to search for your discs all the time.

MakeMKV for windows can extract a .mkv file from a disc (Beta key can be found here). On Linux it is possible that the drive is not detected in MakeMKV. To fix this issue run the following lines and reboot afterwards.
```
su
echo sg > /etc/modules-load.d/sg.conf
```
MakeMKV can be obtained over different ways. One of them is flatpack in which you start MakeMKV via flatpak run com.makemkv.MakeMKV after installation.
MKS Extractor GUI for windows can extract subtitles from a .mkv file.
Subtitleedit) for linux can extract subtitles from a .mkv file and do ocr.
VidCoder for windows can compress video files. Its an adapted version of the HandBrake software.
HandBrake is an open-source and multi-platform program that can compress video files.

Naming schemes of movies and TV shows

This section describes how to name and how to place movies and TV shows and their extras in the directories correctly to get jellyfin and other software media systems to recognize them.

In the jellyfin tv shows documentation and the jellyfin movie documentation are sections on how to name files correctly. This entry uses the conventions based in the documentation and introduces slight changes to indicate different versions and encodings more precisely.

Handling movies or episodes consisting of multiple video files

Some software media systems do not have the capability to seamlessly transition between multiple files of a movie or episode. The easiest way to achieve a seamless movie experience is to concatenate the two movie files. This can be easily done with ffmpeg.

Naming Subtitles of movies or tv shows

Subtitles can be written into video files. If that is the case an additional naming of the file is not needed. This section especially targets .srt files but the naming conventions translate to other file types aswell. Files containing subtitles are named the same as the video file they relate to The only difference is the file extension. After the name of the file the language of the subtitles is indicated by the two-letter language code specified by ISO 639-1. For example .en is added to specify the english language. After that .forced can be added, if the subtitles are forced. Lastly the file extension .srt is appended. The complete subtitle file look like this: movie_(1234)_-_brd_uu.en.forced.srt.

Additionally to indicate the encoding and source can be indicated before the file extension. brd for Blu-ray disc, dvd for digital versatile disc. This is followed by an encoding indicator starting with u and followed by your own scheme for encodings.

Naming extras

The following list are set expressions for extras of movies and tv shows. These will be used in the following sections on how to name movies and tv shows. For the exact use of them look into these sections.

extras (generic catch all for extras of an unknown type)
featurettes
interviews
samples
scenes
shorts
trailers

Naming movies

In the following slight changes are made to ensure better naming schemes. Different versions of the same movie can be stored in the same folder with slightly different names to indicate the specific version. Inside the movie folder you can create subfolders with names according to the expressions for extras from the extras section.

The movies folder is a folder containing all movies. An example looks like the following:

movies
└── best_movie_ever_(2019)
    ├── best_movie_ever_(2019)-brd_uu.mp4
    ├── best_movie_ever_(2019)-brd_uu.en.forced.srt
    ├── best_movie_ever_(2019)-dvd_u1.mp4
    ├── best_movie_ever_(2019)-brd_u1.en.srt
    ├── best_movie_ever_(2019)-brd_un_directors_cut.mp4
    ├── behind_the_scenes
    ├── interviews
    │   └── director_interview-brd_u1.mp4
    └── extras
        ├── making_of-brd_uu.mp4
        ├── making_of-brd_u1.en.srt
        ├── finding_the_right_score-dvd_u1.mp4
        └── home_recreation-brd_u2.mp4

Another way to keep extras in the main folder of the movie is by adding the following suffixes to the files accordingly:

Naming TV shows

Inside the shows folder you can create the season_00 folder as a directory for extras. Files containing multiple episodes at once are named by specifying the first and last episode they include s01e01-e02. Because of the heavily varying the titles of the episodes are not included. Specify the extras inside the season_0 folder with the expressions from the extras section.

The shows folder is a folder containing all tv shows. An example looks like the following.

shows
└── series_(2010)
    ├── season_0
    │   ├── behind_the_scenes-brd_uu.mkv
    │   ├── interview-brd_uu.mkv
    │   └── featurette-dvd_un.mkv
    │
    ├── season_1
    │   ├── series_(2010)_s01e01-e02-dvd_un.mkv
    │   ├── series_(2010)_s01e01-e02-dvd_un.de.srt
    │   ├── series_(2010)_s01e03-brd_un.mkv
    │   ├── series_(2010)_s01e03-brd_un.de.forced.srt
    │   └── series_(2010)_s01e04-brd_un.mkv
    │   └── series_(2010)_s01e04-brd_un.en.srt
    └── season_2
        ├── series_(2010)_s02e01-dvd_un.mkv
        └── series_(2010)_s02e02-dvd_un.mkv

Getting Metadata

Using MediaInfo metadata of a file can be obtained. A command for this looks like the following. In this the file to obtain metadata to is assumed to be video.mkv.

mediainfo video.mkv

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