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Tagging your newly transcoded file with DVD cover art

This is the final post in a series of small tutorials on getting the most out of your WDTV HD Media Player.

I am sure there are multiple programs out there to tag MP4 files (which is the type of media file I decided to use when transcoding my DVDs to a smaller format). However, I found that MetaX for Windows works very well.
(note upon writing, I found some issues with Windows 7 and MetaX for Windows)
***An update from the MetaX for Windows forum suggests that you uninstall Microsoft Office Grove. I have verified that this works***

Let’s get started!

So if you don’t tag your videos, this is similar to what you would see after finishing the transcoding process:

With a little mojo, this is what we’ll see:

As my note says above, I had some trouble with MetaX for Windows and Windows 7, but I don’t have any other version of Windows to test so it may be a bug in general.

Here is what I do to tag MP4 files that I transcoded:

- Open MetaX
- Click the folder icon and browse to the MP4 file that you created in Part III (E:\valkyrie.mp4 in my example) and click Open.

If it asks for the type of file, select the appropriate one (Movie in my example):

You’ll notice that on the left hand side you’ll see that the Results field gets populated with different tags.

I select the tag that shows the DVD cover art that most closely matches the cover art of the DVD you copied.

There are several different tabs with information about the DVD that you could add to the tags, but unless you are going to use some sort of DVD library software, only select the check box for the DVD art.

Again this program allows you to do multiple files to a queue so you can do them all at once. Once you have selected all of the files you want, it’s time to write the queue. To do that, click the red arrow:

MetaX will then copy the original file into a folder called ‘deleted’ inside of the directory where your original file is located. This is usually the longest part of the process.

The program then writes the tags and that’s it! You should now see cover art for your MP4 file: