# Preferences - Video

Actor credits are stored in the Musician Credits field. If you wish you can disable the merging of credits for Actor and Cast. This may make the list of credits easier to read as each person will occupy a single line.

The following settings only apply when importing movie metadata from theMovieDB.

You can control how the cast information downloaded from theMovieDB is formatted:

Actor=name
  This encoding contains a minumum amount of information, only the actor's name, and will should display correctly in iTunes if you have set Preferences-Audio Files-Process iTunMOVI for files with video.
Actor=name (character)
  This encoding retains the character name associated with an actor. It should display correctly in iTunes if you have set Preferences-Audio Files-Process iTunMOVI for files with video.
character=name
  This encoding treats the character name as the role. These items will not be displayed in iTunes regardless as to how the Preferences-Audio Files-Process iTunMOVI for files with video option is set.
character=name
  This encoding treats the person name as the role. This is somewhat non-standard for Yate but might be how you wish to view the data. These items will not be displayed in iTunes regardless as to how the Preferences-Audio Files-Process iTunMOVI for files with video option is set.

iTunes does not replace values in its library when refreshing a file and the associated tag is not present. For example if iTunes has an Album Artist value, when refreshing the audio file it does not find an Album Artist tag, it will retain the current value. Yate typically does not write empty tags to files. It gets around the iTunes refresh problem by programmatically telling iTunes to set the required field to empty. The Classification, Video Definition, Show Description and Network Name cannot be programmatically set. If you want iTunes to detect a change to an empty state, the empty tags must be written to the files. The Write empty video fields setting will write empty values for the fields but only if a video track is present in the file.

theMovieDB importers can extract video classifications. If you wish you can enter a list of two character country codes, optionally separated by spaces, to set your preferred countries. Note that alphabetic case is ignored. Items at the start of the list are given a higher priority than items at the end of the list. If the list is empty, no classifications will be imported.The complete list of two character country codes can be referenced at the following links:

> Nations Online
> ISO

The multi value delimiter is rarely used in conjunction with video files. While commas are a natural separator for some fields such as Artist, some users prefer an alter delimiter string to join Genre values. An alternate delimiter can be specified.