Serviio

Hi,

I've a couple of mkv movies on disk which are served by serviio.
I've configured serviio to use "Online Metadata" and download DVD Covers / Posters. This works pretty well as I can see the correct DVD Covers when I connect to the serviio server by a client like a TV or Kodi from a computer.
Furthermore, serviio is able to find out the correct genre or movie creation year.

I didn't find out though how to configure serviio to show movie descriptions or a short summary.

1. is there a way to configure serviio so that it also downloads from internet and shows corresponding movie information like a movie summary?

2. is there a way to configure serviio so that it extracts movie information from mkv (matroska) tags, e.g. the tag "SUMMARY" or "Description"? -- some of my movies contain movie information there which is apparently not used by serviio.

My clients are mostly kodi or sometimes Samsung TVs if this matters.

best regards,

Johannes.

For the metadata to be correctly retrieved, your files must be named properly. For movies, they need to be in this way: movie name (year released in parentheses). You can have additional information in the file name, such as resolution or such, but it's vital that the name and year are accurate.

See this page for further information: http://www.serviio.org/index.php?option ... icle&id=12

Thanks.
I believe the movies are already recognized correctly by serviio because it assigns correct creation year and genre and DVD Cover.
Nevertheless, I followed http://wiki.serviio.org/doku.php?id=imb ... ata_naming and renamed some files but this makes no difference.
Even with renamed files which contain the imdb tt 7 digit identifiers I get no movie content / summary but only the creation year and genre.

Do I need some special setting in serviio?

I don't know about any client that actually displays the summary data. It's used in MediaBrowser, for example, but also sent to all the DLNA clients, but most (all) don't make use of it.