Hello everyone...

Distro: Arch Linux x86_64.

This is driving me nuts. How do you tag video files? I have tons of video files which i have collected from different sources from past many years. These are mainly in mp4 format. I want to retrieve any desired videos quickly so that can i can view them which out spending too much time on searching.

At first, i created directories in tree structure, but day-by-day its becoming too wide and too deep. So i abandoned it.

Nowadays, i'm giving keywords in filename itself. But it makes files too long and difficult to search. for example, one particular file looks like this...
of course, this is one simple example, but there are many more file with much more complex tag-like keywords.

So, is there any way i can tag files with some keywords and save them, so that i can search files based on those tags.

Note: i tried yaourt tmsu from AUR, but some how i am not able to install it.

Any suggestions are really appreciated.

Thanks

Here is an interesting thread on the Ubuntu forum about tagging video files (adding tags to the file metadata), and the discussion names a couple of applications to use for that purpose.

On the other hand, if you want to search for key words in the file name, use the find command.

find ~/Videos -type f -iname "*configure_bind_dns*"

find where-to-look -type-of-file -iname is a regular expression (part of file name)
where type of file is a regular file, as opposed to block, character, etc,
and iname is case insensitive, as opposed to -name which is case sensitive.

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this is what i do to tag mkv's:perhaps you can use find and mkvextract tags to find the tag you are looking for ?

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Thanks