I've finally found ExifTool, and I really want to try to add some metadata to my video segments, keeping them understandable by Shaka Player in a web browser, but I can't find a topic to follow.ĭo you know how can I do this? Is there any guide on how to insert custom metadata tags on video files? I've seen far more information about inserting this kind of information on images. (more info: -> other open thread of mine) Maybe players try to read the custom atoms and they can't. File Formats Supported by ExifTool EXIF, Exchangable Image File Format metadata (TIFF-based) F4A, F4B, F4P, F4V, Adobe Flash Player 9+ Audio/Video (Quicktime. DASH players won't play it, maybe because the extra atoms alter the size, and therefore, some atom describing size becomes wrong. I've selected not-in-use atom names, of course. For showing a specific tag, use followed by the tag name as shown below. You can specify certain tags or even exclude them using and. Generally, you don’t need to see all the tags but only look for certain ones. mp4 input file is the result of: cat init-video0-0.mp4 video0-0-1.mp4 > video0-0-N_mod.mp4 (in order to have independent video format, be playable and readable by ffmpeg)īento4: inserting custom atom/boxes into mp4 container. By default, ExifTool shows you all of the tags it can understand from a file. I've been trying to add some extra Metadata information to some mp4 segments using:įFmpeg: ffmpeg -i /path/to/video0-0-N_mod.mp4 -movflags use_metadata_tags -metadata customtag=whatever /path/to/video0-0-N_mod2.mp4

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