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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lehmden" data-source="post: 1236266" data-attributes="member: 109222">Possible. Never tried it without being logged in, so I'm not sure. The IMDB-ID can be found under "external databases"( or similar, I'm using the page in German so I don't know the exact term in English). By the way, MediaPortal2 didn't use their web page. TheMovieDB is providing an API (like any other database of this kind, IMDB, TVDB,...) for easy access from within programs. Websites are for human access, APIs are for software access to the database... The TMDB API knows about tt numbers and can search/filer the results for a given tt number even when not logged in...This only is a matter of the used bitrate. If you use exactly the same settings but choose mkv as output you will get mkv files of very similar size than the .mp4 files you now use. Same would be valid for .ts or .avi or,... as long as you choose identical bitrates for the resulting video. Higher bitrates means bigger file sizes and better picture quality. So it always is a compromise which bitrates/quality to choose. The used codec (DivX, AVC, HEVC,...) is responsible for how low you can set the bitrate without loosing too much picture quality. Better codec means lower bitrates (= smaller file sizes) without notable loss of quality. .mp4 originally is an Apple (Mac) file format and for this it has lot's of unnecessary restrictions (as everything from Apple). .mkv is an open source format and is much more flexible than .mp4. Indeed it is the most flexible container that exists today. It can contain much more different tracks, codecs,... than any other container out there. You even can generate DVD/BD alike menu structures and attach the fanart directly to the video file (like Album cover to an mp3 music file). I'm developing an AV converting tool named "Media-Buddy" (formerly known as "MKV-Buddy"). It's using Handbrake as the main encoding engine, opposite to most other tools of this kind that are using ffmpeg as encoding engine. When encoding videos it can generate mkv and mp4 files. Everything else (remuxxing, tagging,...) only is possible with mkv because of it's much better flexibility. If you don't know Remuxxing means transferring a video file from one container into another one without re- encoding. A very fast process (as fast as copying a file).During development I've tested mp4 for remuxing too, but mp4 fails in about 70% of all videos I've tested where mkv was working for every test video I tried. That's why I never implemented remuxxing to mp4 at all. Tagging  of mp4 files generally is possible too, but you only can tag very little data. Aside this very few video tools are supporting mp4 tags. As example MediaPortal2 only supports mkv tags. That's why tagging of .mp4 is not implemented and most likely never will be.</blockquote>

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