Any uses of tags field from meta file ?

Altimes · Post by **Altimes** » Tue Mar 14, 2017 14:06

I've been continuing on my Mac (swift 3.0) cuts editor. In so doing, as an exercise, I have been adding the capacity to edit the supplementary files, I have recently developed a panel that decodes the fields from the .ts.meta file. I have noticed that the "tags" field is occasionally populated (usually empty). What I have seen is typically a copy of the event name field from the short descriptor of the EIT file with spaces replaced with underscores(_).

From the work on the source has anyone noticed why it would only be "occasional"? If the underlying code was copying the EIT file field into the meta file I would expect to be consistent.

Just a curiosity question.

If anyone can even point me at the branch of the source tree where that answer might lie, I am happy to ferret through the source to see I work it out for myself.

TIA Alan.

IanSav · Post by **IanSav** » Tue Mar 14, 2017 14:43

Hi Alan,

Look in "/etc/enigma2/movietags" for the predefined tags. Search the source code for tags but I believe the main usage occurs in "/lib/python/Screens/MovieSelection.py" and "/lib/python/Screens/TimerEntry.py".

Regards,
Ian.

Altimes · Post by **Altimes** » Tue Mar 14, 2017 15:44

Ian,

Thanks for the pointers. I'll start digging.

Alan.

prl · Post by **prl** » Tue Mar 14, 2017 17:31

For recordings, tags are extracted from the recording name in MovieList.load() in lib/python/Screens/TimerEntry.py. For other media, I think that tags are extracted from the media container's tag fields.

However, they don't seem to be being used in the way I'd expect them to be used.

There are also tag editor plugins, movietagger and tageditor, which I think should let you add tags to timers, but I've never tried to use them.

You can select media and recordings by tag by pressing RADIO in the media selection list.

peteru · Post by **peteru** » Thu Mar 16, 2017 00:25

Your tags are most likely being generated by autotimers.