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  • From: Mark Fallu <brisvegas1 AT gmail.com>
  • To: "Nathan R. Yergler" <nathan AT yergler.net>
  • Cc: discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work <cc-metadata AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: metadata fun
  • Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 23:15:56 +1000

Do you think you could publish more details of the specifics of the
work you did - the problems you encountered etc.

Cheers,

Mark

On 7/21/05, Nathan R. Yergler <nathan AT yergler.net> wrote:
> I'm not familiar with MMPtyhon, but Pymedia isn't a suitable basis for
> building upon. I used it in developing a ccPublisher derivative for
> Jameno (http://jamendo.org), and it's fickle and buggy on it's best
> days. The mailing list has been slightly more active lately, so maybe
> some of these issues are being corrected.
>
> Nathan
>
>
> Mark Fallu 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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> >
>
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