---
title: Video Data Metabox
menu_group: Content editor
menu_order: 60
tab: Video Data
tab_order: 10
summary: Media URL, duration, quality, genres, and parental rating on video posts.
---

# Video Data Metabox

**Location:** Post editor on Movies, Short Videos, Episodes, and Live Streams (enabled video post types)

The **Media details** metabox contains required technical metadata for IPTV feeds and the HTML5 player.

## Fields

| Field | Description |
|-------|-------------|
| **Media URL** | Canonical playback URL (`rovidx_smarttv_URL`). Direct HLS (`.m3u8`) or MP4. YouTube page URLs are not supported. Always available. |
| **Duration** | Length in seconds — used in feed JSON and players. |
| **Video Format** | Stream type (`rovidx_smarttv_format`: MP4, MOV, M4V, HLS, SMOOTH, DASH). Always available. |
| **Quality** | Resolution label (e.g. HD, FHD, UHD). |
| **Genres** | Selected genres for browse/filter metadata. |
| **Parental Rating** | Content rating for platform compliance (e.g. G, PG, TV-14). |

### How Media URL and Format are shown

- **No video-host integration enabled:** visible under **Hosted video source** (no expand step).
- **Vimeo (or another host) enabled:** inside **Advanced playback settings**; hosts normally populate them automatically.

## Best practices

- Use CDN or host HLS/MP4 URLs that allow direct playback on Roku and HTML5.
- Match duration to actual file length — incorrect values break trickplay and ad scheduling.
- Set featured images separately — they appear as thumbnails in feeds.

## Vimeo import

When **Enable Vimeo Integration** is on under Features, use the [Video source](metabox-vimeo-import.md) metabox to load URL, duration, quality, tags, and optionally title/description. With Vimeo off, enter a hosted URL in **Hosted video source** instead.

## Feed output

Values save to `rovidx_smarttv_*` post meta and appear in the [Content REST API](rest-api-content.md) as the `media`, `taxonomy`, and related fields. Missing Media URL or Duration may cause playback or feed issues on devices.

## Related guides

- [Getting Started](getting-started.md)
- [Series and Episodes](metabox-series-episodes.md)
- [Shortcodes](shortcodes.md)