jak <nos...@please.ty> wrote: > Chris Green ha scritto: > > jak <nos...@please.ty> wrote: > >> rbowman ha scritto: > >>> On Sun, 9 Apr 2023 09:40:51 +0100, Chris Green wrote: > >>> > >>>> I'm looking for a Python (3) library to access (read only at present) > >>>> the metadata in MP4 video files, in particular I want to get at dates > >>>> and times. > >>>> > >>>> What's available to do this? Ideally something available in the Ubuntu > >>>> repositories but I can install with PIP if necessary. > >>> > >>> https://mutagen.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ > >>> > >> > >> I thought it only dealt about audio. > > > > That's why I hadn't thought it would help me as I'm after getting > > metadata from an MP4 video file but I guess the metadata format may be > > the same regardless of whether it's video or audio. > > > > Easiest way I found was run ffprobe command via popen. It can output the > information you need in json format which is easily readable with the > json library. > > command: > ffprobe -v warning -i "input.mp4" -show_streams -of json > python: > Popen(command, stderr=STDOUT, stdout=PIPE, encoding='utf8') > json: > json.loads(''.join(p.stdout.readlines())) > > It's easy to find a version of ffmpeg/ffprobe for every platform.
Thank you, that worked straight away, ffprobe is installed on my systems already and I can probably just grep for the tag I want as all I'm looking for is the date of its creation which appears (twice) with the tag "creation_time". This is just to handle the occasional MP4 that a python program which basically manages JPEGs can't handle. It throws an exception so I can just get that to run a simple bash script to get the creation date. -- Chris Green ยท -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
