[Tutor] Video file metadata? (MP4/WMV)

Andreas Kostyrka andreas at kostyrka.org
Tue Mar 4 23:26:56 CET 2008


Don't think so. Do you have any cmdline tool to update the meta data?

Alternativly you can naturally embed Win32 components and control them
with Python, but I'm not a Windows guy.

Andreas

Am Dienstag, den 04.03.2008, 14:10 -0800 schrieb Allen Fowler:
> Hello,
> 
>  I have several hundred WMV video files with bad embedded author/title/date information. 
>  
> However, the correct information is correctly encoded in the file name.. i.e. "title-author-date.wmv" 
>  
> Seems like the a great job for Python. :)
> 
> Also, I am about to convert these fiiles to MP4 for use on an iPod. The video software I am using will, I think, transfer the metadata from the WMV to the new MP4 files. 
>  
> So, two questions: 
>  
> 1) Does these exist a python module I can use to programatically edit the metadata in MP4 
>  files? 
>  
> 2) Failing that, is there a python module I can use to edit the 
>  metadata in the WMV files? (hopeing the data makes it through the 
>  conversion..)
>  
> -- Thank you 
> 
> 
> 
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