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  • From: Davide Fugazza <davidefugazza AT gmail.com>
  • To: Mark Fallu <brisvegas1 AT gmail.com>, discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work <cc-metadata AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: metadata fun
  • Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 14:00:49 +0200

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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