Displaying TV Series Name

[teeceegee]

Hello,

Apologies if this is obvious but I can't work it out and my searches have been fruitless.

I've ripped some TV shows (comedy series mostly), from my own DVDs, to put onto my iPad when travelling. All is fine except for one annoyance. When I open the Videos App and select TV Shows I get an image which corresponds to the show but nothing written underneath with the title of the series. I've fiddled about with all sorts of metadata in iTunes before syncing but just can't seem to work this one out.

Can someone suggest what needs to be populated for this to display?

Many thanks
TCG

 

[wackymacky]

Hello,

Apologies if this is obvious but I can't work it out and my searches have been fruitless.

I've ripped some TV shows (comedy series mostly), from my own DVDs, to put onto my iPad when travelling. All is fine except for one annoyance. When I open the Videos App and select TV Shows I get an image which corresponds to the show but nothing written underneath with the title of the series. I've fiddled about with all sorts of metadata in iTunes before syncing but just can't seem to work this one out.

Can someone suggest what needs to be populated for this to display?

Many thanks
TCG

You've tried chaging these on the respective files?

 

[teeceegee]

You've tried chaging these on the respective files?

Yes thanks I have.

 

[Night Spring]

I just tried copying a TV episode I downloaded from iTunes onto the iPad, and no series title is displayed. I must conclude that the iPad video app doesn't display series titles.

 

[BrennerM]

The series title is not displayed on the thumbnails page but if you click on the thumbnail, it goes to a season page where it shows the series name and season name, plus the list of the episodes.

Make sure your artwork has the cover art so that the series is recognizable from the first screen. I actually alter the cover art to add a large number to indicate the season number for easier visibility.

My bigger beef is that you can't click on an episode and view the description of the episode, unlike movies where you get a nice summary screen you can read before watching the movie.

 

[ZBoater]

Have you tried MetaX? Its a program that lets you do more to the meta tags than iTunes. I've used it and it has made my importing experience a lot better.

 

[AR15MBP]

Hello,

Apologies if this is obvious but I can't work it out and my searches have been fruitless.

I've ripped some TV shows (comedy series mostly), from my own DVDs, to put onto my iPad when travelling. All is fine except for one annoyance. When I open the Videos App and select TV Shows I get an image which corresponds to the show but nothing written underneath with the title of the series. I've fiddled about with all sorts of metadata in iTunes before syncing but just can't seem to work this one out.

Can someone suggest what needs to be populated for this to display?

Many thanks
TCG

if you're talking about the video app in ipad, it will not show any metadata save for season if you have multiple seasons for a show. once you click on a tv show or movie, you will see the metadata displayed on its individual section. the picture icon is meant to represent the tv show or movie, so i made sure to have a movie poster for each movie, and a good icon for tv shows.

 

[teeceegee]

Thanks for the replies folks. It does seem an odd thing to do on Apple's part.

Cheers
Tony