Adding general "movie" file type to file filters

[mescalito]

I dragged an mkv movie file to a file filter action in my workflow, but that only works for mkv files now. Is there a way to add a general movie type, without having to drag each single movie file format there?

[jdfwarrior]

I dragged an mkv movie file to a file filter action in my workflow, but that only works for mkv files now. Is there a way to add a general movie type, without having to drag each single movie file format there?

 

You potentially COULD just use the kMDItemContentTypeTree metadata item and look for "public.movie". The problem is though, at least with some of that mkv's of mine that I checked.. they don't have that attribute set and I think it's because MKV is considered to be a "container". I checked probably 5-6 mkv files I had and they either had no metadata or they had nothing that would identify them as a movie except for their extension. Other video formats (m4v, avi, mov, etc) seemed to have the correct metadata associated with them to make this happen.

 

Also, those would be the major ones (mov, mkv, avi, mp4, m4v) so.. actually wouldn't take long to populate the list with just the drag and drop method.

[mescalito]

Makes sense, I think you are right. thanks!