metadata fun

Bjorn Wijers mailings at bdisfunctional.net
Thu Jul 21 08:11:17 EDT 2005


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.

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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