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I'm looking for a media manager that will display and play movies and TV shows and will read data included in mp4 and m4v files.



So far I've looked at XBMC, Moovida and Boxee and all of these seem to keep their own separate database or XML files for reading and storing tag information. I also looked at Banshee because of this answer, but it didn't read my tags. Banshee is also geared towards music videos instead of actual movies and TV shows.



So I'm looking for software that




  • Displays and plays movies and TV Shows

  • Reads mp4 and m4v tags

  • Preferably something with bulk import (i.e., I don't want to add 1,000 items to a new library)

  • Bonus if it also has a tag editor

  • Bonus if it's an XBMC extension


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There isn't a program to do this on Linux.



There's a program called AtomicParsley which will tag your files in an iTunes style from the command line, but it doesn't have a GUI.



I tried writing my own program using AtomicParsley as a base for tagging, but it proved to be too risky. Tagging is at the byte level and minor changes can corrupt your files so that they're unplayable.



It's unfortunate for those who have large libraries coming from an iTunes setting, but there just isn't anything that will read and parse those files in a graphical setting.


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