You can now find my releases and source code here
I have to say I have really enjoyed working with PyQt5 and Designer versus Tk. Anyhow, my mission was to create a PyQt5 based application for movie/tv show meta-tagging because, as it stands, linux lacks any, atleast in my opinion.
To being working with PyQt5, I needed to install some packages on Manjaro. I highly recommend using the package builder pyinstaller and fbs; for this we will need to compile a shared libraries version of Python. This is accomplished by prefixing the pyenv install version with CONFIGURE_OPTS=--enabled-shared. This is required as pyinstaller requires shared libraries.
CONFIGURE_OPTS=--enable-shared pyenv install 3.6.8
Now we can safely install fbs and pyInstaller
pip install fbs PyInstaller
I am a fan of pyenv, pyenv-virtualenv, etc. as I work with several versions of Python. I wanted to install fbs as it allows me to wrap my development into a system that I can easily compile to produce a binary for execution elsewhere. There are other packages I needed as well so I will provide a copy of my pip freeze:
altgraph==0.16.1
asn1crypto==0.24.0
astroid==2.2.5
boto3==1.9.129
botocore==1.12.129
certifi==2018.11.29
cffi==1.12.2
chardet==3.0.4
Click==7.0
coverage==4.5.3
cryptography==2.6.1
docutils==0.14
fbs==0.7.3
future==0.17.1
idna==2.8
isort==4.3.17
jmespath==0.9.4
lazy-object-proxy==1.3.1
macholib==1.11
mccabe==0.6.1
mock==2.0.0
mutagen==1.42.0
nose==1.3.7
pbr==5.1.3
pefile==2018.8.8
pyAesCrypt==0.4.2
pycparser==2.19
PyInstaller==3.4
pylint==2.3.1
PyQt5==5.12.1
PyQt5-sip==4.19.15
PyQt5-stubs==5.12.1.0
python-dateutil==2.8.0
python-dotenv==0.10.1
requests==2.21.0
requests-cache==0.4.13
s3transfer==0.2.0
six==1.12.0
tmdbv3api==1.3.2
typed-ast==1.3.1
urllib3==1.24.1
wrapt==1.11.1
Of course from this list the must have is pyqt5 pyqt5-sip pyqt5-stub and chances are some other packages I do not need like Click as I am actually converting over a script I wrote around Click, a CLI interface, to PyQt5. Finally, a userful application is Designer for Qt, which I installed via pacman on Manjaro. Lastly, you will need an API key from TMDB.
The folder structure of my app is as such:
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├── src
│ ├── build
│ │ └── settings
│ └── main
│ ├── icons
│ │ ├── base
│ │ ├── linux
│ │ └── mac
│ └── python
│ └── ui
└── tests
In the main folder exists a main.py file that contains my application. However, I will begin by talking about some important Classes.
An important and simple Class I created uses Mutagen for manipulating mp4 meta tag data. I stick to the semantics for iTunes .
The following is a gist of that Class:
The following gist contains three Classes, two of which are inherited from the base MetaTag Class. Essentially, I use these Classes to either meta tag a movie or a show. They will be instantiated within my application for each new movie or show that requires meta tagging. I pass several parameters such as title, description, etc in the constructors.
to be continued …