metadata fun
Nathan R. Yergler
nathan at yergler.net
Thu Jul 21 09:12:21 EDT 2005
Bjorn Wijers wrote:
>Its quite usefull although the last time I used it the code was a *@#^%
>mess. So if it does what you want 'pas de problem', but if you need to
>tweak some of it....you're in trouble.
>
>
I concur.
NRY
>Davide Fugazza wrote:
>
>
>>On this very topic, there is also the getid3 php library
>>
>>http://getid3.org/
>>
>>which has been succesfully used for AGNULA Libre Music website, our
>>upload/tagging web platform available at
>>
>>http://muzik.agnula.org/
>>
>>Cheers,
>>Davide
>>
>>On 7/21/05, Mark Fallu <brisvegas1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>There are two python products that are interesting in this area:
>>>
>>>Pymedia - http://pymedia.org/ (based on ffmpeg can read / transcode
>>>etc a variety of media files including mov.)
>>>and
>>>MMPython - http://sourceforge.net/projects/mmpython/ (a multimedia
>>>metadata parser that can read all sorts of meta data eg. id3 and
>>>quickitime atoms)
>>>
>>>Both of which would be a good basis for going forward and building an
>>>app that can not only read the existing meta data - but can write the
>>>metadata too. Usefully they are not targeted specifically at
>>>Quicktime so would be a basis for a more generic system of multimedia
>>>file metadata manipulation.
>>>
>>>The quicktime api documentation of MOOV atoms can be found here -
>>>http://developer.apple.com/documentation/QuickTime/APIREF/-moov-.htm
>>>(quicktime is just a container format - so the video stream has a
>>>separate MOOV atom as does the video stream and the metadata etc)
>>>
>>>Quicktime file format specification here:
>>>http://developer.apple.com/documentation/QuickTime/QTFF/index.html
>>>
>>>What we need is a standalone crossplatform app that can (in the manner
>>>of ccpublisher) alter the metadata atom and leave the rest of the
>>>quicktime file intact.
>>>
>>>Currently - we have to things like quicktime pro to make these
>>>modifications - but that is really only suitable for manual use on
>>>individual files on either windows or macs.
>>>
>>>I am more interested in a truly system that would allow users to
>>>upload files to a server and edit the metadata through the web or to
>>>batch process files on the desktop.
>>>
>>>Cheers,
>>>
>>>Mark
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>On 7/21/05, Kevin Marks <cc at mediagora.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>QT has a copyright field in it's general metadata. I put the CC license
>>>>including link in that. eg
>>>>
>>>>http://homepage.mac.com/kevinmarks/bacon.mov
>>>>
>>>>Open in qt player to see the licence, which reads:
>>>>
>>>>This work is licensed under a <a rel="license"
>>>>href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/">Creative
>>>>Commons License</a>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>On Jul 20, 2005, at 9:01 PM, Jon Phillips wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 13:33 +1000, Mark Fallu wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>Hey folks,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>What is the current state of embedding CC metadata in Quicktime? Do
>>>>>>you know if anyone has made a start on the .mov format?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>It would be great to develop a library that would work on multiple
>>>>>formats, and develop a generic system that could work for quicktime as
>>>>>well to embed cc metadata.
>>>>>
>>>>>I did a google search, but couldn't find much (although I stayed at
>>>>>under 100 searches). I'm sure Mike, or others could speak to this
>>>>>better.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
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