It's a pleasure to support Digital Foundry's excellent work. I typically like to download a video file for new episodes and watch them back using the infuse video player on an iPad.
After downloading the 3rd Q&A I've found that infuse seems to mis-identify the the Q&A episode as something called "Eko Eko Azararak: B-Page" in which "Misa Kuroi continues her search for the demon Ezekiel and investigates a strange situation involving a wheelchair bound doll maker named Ryo."
I recognise that movie matching routines in such players are beyond DFs control, and if this is some Easter Egg or inside joke - I've missed it!
Other recent content like the DF RETRO Super Show 8 and the Fallout 4 Switch 2 Test show just a random screengrab from the episode itself and the video title.
A few requests therefore in relation to the download files:-
1) Would it be possible to embed a thumbnail into the HEVC / H.264 downloads - perhaps the same one that gets used for Youtube?
2) Could show notes similar to what are provided in the Patreon posts be incorporated into the video descriptions that would show if you watch in an offline player?
3) In relation to the DF Directs / Q&As - is there something about how the metadata is being noted on these files that is causing the movie scrapers to kick into action and pick a very random result (I recognise addressing 1 & 2 may address 3 by default!)
Appreciate that you are wanting to get shows into people's hands in a timely fashion and so doing custom metadata for each download may not be workable.
Keep up the great content and thanks for your consideration!
Hmmm this could complicate workflow and videos are typically uploaded before a thumbnail even exists. Is there a competent metadata tweaking tool out there?
I had no idea about any of this at all until today!
@Rich_Leadbetter Thanks for your reply Rich, apologies for the delay in reply!
It looks like for video - during production, the editor can potentially set a particular frame of the video to as a 'Poster Frame' to represent the video as a whole.
Perhaps, just before encoding, it would be possible, for the Editor to choose an engaging frame from the video so that the video is putting it's best foot forward for the downloaded version?
Granted this wouldn't be the official thumbnail you're using for Youtube since you advise that those are typically finished but a good poster frame being consciously chosen could be a nice little something for the download versions nevertheless.
I suspect the same practical difficulties with using the official thumbnail would apply to including the lovely written up descriptions inside the downloaded versions of the videos as I expect that a member of the team writes these up as one of the final steps in your process before going live (i.e. after the encode).
As to tweaking meta-data on already created videos - there's:- https://github.com/martchus/tageditor
which when I tested it seemed to work on H.264 files. I could not get it to handle h.265/HEVC files though. There are some suggestions online that FFMPEG can change a video's poster frame after the fact via CLI however I'm not sure that would incorporate into existing workflows easily.
In short, if consideration could be given to setting a nice poster frame during the edit - that'd be awesome.
Keep up the excellent work - it's been great to see a healthy mix between the contemporary and the retro!
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