Re: metadata fun

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@...> 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.
> 
>