Thread: Adding a new ebook format
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Old 06-13-2015, 07:24 AM   #13
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Originally Posted by shentar View Post
Don't expect too much. Most video container files carry little or no metadata of interest concerning their content other than technical info such as format, resolution and the availability of audio & subtitle files. At least initially I have no intention of interrogating the file itself hence my plan to parse my DVD Profiler database. In fact, one of the reasons for using calibre as a starting point is that it provides a neat way of associating an externally stored metadata with the files and searching on it. I'll turn off the option to attempt to extract metadata from the "book" files and to calibre the video files will simply be black boxes.
If the purpose is to get the metadata from a database to calibre and connected to a file, you might want to look at the Import List plugin. It can take a CSV file and create or modify book entries in calibre. If you can extract the data from DVD Profiler, the plugin might offer a short cut.
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