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diff --git a/doc/metadata.texi b/doc/metadata.texi index cfaf491c2d..b7fc789e2a 100644 --- a/doc/metadata.texi +++ b/doc/metadata.texi @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ @chapter Metadata @c man begin METADATA -Libav is able to dump metadata from media files into a simple UTF-8-encoded +FFmpeg is able to dump metadata from media files into a simple UTF-8-encoded INI-like text file and then load it back using the metadata muxer/demuxer. The file format is as follows: @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ A ffmetadata file might look like this: ;FFMETADATA1 title=bike\\shed ;this is a comment -artist=Libav troll team +artist=FFmpeg troll team [CHAPTER] TIMEBASE=1/1000 @@ -65,4 +65,20 @@ title=chapter \#1 title=multi\ line @end example + +By using the ffmetadata muxer and demuxer it is possible to extract +metadata from an input file to an ffmetadata file, and then transcode +the file into an output file with the edited ffmetadata file. + +Extracting an ffmetadata file with @file{ffmpeg} goes as follows: +@example +ffmpeg -i INPUT -f ffmetadata FFMETADATAFILE +@end example + +Reinserting edited metadata information from the FFMETADATAFILE file can +be done as: +@example +ffmpeg -i INPUT -i FFMETADATAFILE -map_metadata 1 -codec copy OUTPUT +@end example + @c man end METADATA |