A script to embed title tags in video files. Currently only MP4 is supported.
Dependencies: Python 3, Mutagen, and Progress
Install Mutagen by running pip install mutagen
Install Progress by running pip install progress
This script relies on files being named in fairly specific and uniform fashion. It will attempt to extract an episode name and embed that into the file's title tag.
A valid file would look similar to 'Python 3 Tutorial for Beginners - S01E01 - Why Learn Python?.mp4'.
The most important part of this naming scheme is the last instance of ' - ' plus the
period before the file extension. Whatever is between the last instance of ' - ' and the period will
be the episode name, minus any leading or trailing white spaces.
I use this to populate the metadata fields inside Plex when using a personal media library with embedded metadata. Having the title tags set allows Plex to pull that data instead of having to manually rename each file's episode name from within Plex.
Example 1:
Full file name: Python 3 Tutorial for Beginners - S01E01 - Why Learn Python?.mp4
Title tag: Why Learn Python?
Example 2:
File name: 01 - Why Learn Python?.mp4
Title tag: Why Learn Python?