[emms-help] Using EMMS as a Matroska Annotation Tool

[Dan LaManna]

Hi all,

I stumbled upon EMMS when looking for a tool that I could use to
annotate media files (mkv files to be specific). After glancing through
it seems like EMMS is a great tool for playing media, and doing at least
preliminary tagging (via emms-tag-editor-mode), however I noticed the
set of tags it supports is rather limited compared to say,
https://matroska.org/technical/specs/tagging/index.html#tags.

Additionally it looks like there isn't a notion of "chapters" in EMMS,
however this is something I would be interested in annotating as well.
The ideal workflow here I think would be to use emacs to scan through
videos marking points to add chapters to.

Being unfamiliar with EMMS, does the list think the vague feature set
I'm describing is within the scope of EMMS? If so I would be more than
glad to take a stab at it (no guarantees). Any guidance would be
appreciated.

Thanks,

Dan LaManna

[Yoni Rabkin]

Post by Dan LaManna
Hi all,
I stumbled upon EMMS when looking for a tool that I could use to
annotate media files (mkv files to be specific). After glancing through
it seems like EMMS is a great tool for playing media, and doing at least
preliminary tagging (via emms-tag-editor-mode), however I noticed the
set of tags it supports is rather limited compared to say,
https://matroska.org/technical/specs/tagging/index.html#tags.
Additionally it looks like there isn't a notion of "chapters" in EMMS,
however this is something I would be interested in annotating as well.
The ideal workflow here I think would be to use emacs to scan through
videos marking points to add chapters to.
Being unfamiliar with EMMS, does the list think the vague feature set
I'm describing is within the scope of EMMS? If so I would be more than
glad to take a stab at it (no guarantees). Any guidance would be
appreciated.

It isn't something that Emms has at the moment, but sounds great. Emms
has some very basic bookmark functionality in lisp/emms-bookmarks.el.

If this is something you want to work on, please do. You can send in
patches or provide access to a branch we can all pull and play with.

We keep the Savannah git master stable and up-to-date, so that would be
the tree against which you would be working.