bbayles / vod_metadata

CableLabs VOD Metadata 1.1 Generator

vod-metadata

The vod-metadata project contains tools for working with CableLabs Video On Demand (VOD) Metadata files.

Included is a command line utility that can automatically generate metadata for video files and a Python library for manipulating metadata files.

Documentation

For full documentation, see https://vod-metadata.readthedocs.io.

Licensing

vod-metadata is open source, and uses the MIT license. If you're interested in a commercial license for including it in closed source software, please contact me.

vod_metadata's Issues

Support "box cover" asset elements

Currently the library recognizes movie, preview, and poster element. The spec (page 15) also describes box cover elements, which use "Still Image" metadata like poster.

This issue is to make box cover a first-class citizen, i.e.:

• Add remove_box_cover and has_box_cover methods on VodPackage
• Make the metadata generator associate something_box_cover.bmp files with something.mpg

no output

appears to run, gives error saying:
_Processing index0.ts...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Python\lib\runpy.py", line 192, in _run_module_as_main
return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Python\lib\runpy.py", line 85, in run_code
exec(code, run_globals)
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Python\lib\site-packages\vod_metadata_main.py", line 57, in
vod_package = generate_metadata(file_path, vod_config, template_path)
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Python\lib\site-packages\vod_metadata\md_gen.py", line 68, in generate_metadata
vod_package.check_files()
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Python\lib\site-packages\vod_metadata\vodpackage.py", line 220, in check_files
self._scan_video(ae_type, ae_path)
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Python\lib\site-packages\vod_metadata\vodpackage.py", line 260, in scan_video
mpeg_info = check_video(ae_path, self.vod_config.mediainfo_path)
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Python\lib\site-packages\vod_metadata\media_info.py", line 76, in check_video
raise MediaInfoError(err_msg)
vod_metadata.media_info.MediaInfoError: Could not determine all video paramters

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Doesn't work with m3u8 files, Can get it to work with mp4 if nothing else is in the folder, but doesn't add "poster" information, even when the "Poster" is named the same as the media file.

Support custom metadata template file

metadata_template.xml is not intended to be edited, but there's no good way to add your own metadata without diving into it.

This issue is to make a command line parameter that allows for a different template to be specified.

metadata_template.xml modification

Hi Bo,

After I make some modifications in "metadata_template.xml" in

/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/vod_metadata-2015.3.2-py2.7.egg/vod_metadata

and running app it still creates .xml with old template

can you please advise?

CableLabs Metadata generator

Hi,

I have downloaded you Python generator in order to test its usage.
Each time when I run it, it failed with MediaInfo error.
mpeg_info = check_video(ae_path, self.vod_config.mediainfo_path)
File "C:\Users\natalie\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\lib\site-packages\vod_metadata\media_info.py", line 62, in check_video
raise MediaInfoError(err_msg)
vod_metadata.media_info.MediaInfoError: Could not determine all video paramters
When vod_metadata opens MediaInfo program, what I should do? Just close it?
Can i call you? Thanks in advance for your help.
My mail is [email protected]

Configuration error while running program

Nothing i could input under provider_id works.

Tried:
example.com (the one included in the default zip)
www.example.com
www.bskyb.com
bskyb.com
bskyb

any domain .net/.com/co.uk, etc...

ImportError: No module named mock

Hi! can you share the mock module so i can run test_vod_metadata.py??

from mock import MagicMock, patch
ImportError: No module named mock

ty!