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Dumps all metadata to a text file for easy manual editing. Originally committed as revision 26101 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
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@chapter Metadata
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@c man begin METADATA
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FFmpeg is able to dump metadata from media files into a simple UTF-8-encoded
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INI-like text file and then load it back using the metadata muxer/demuxer.
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The file format is as follows:
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@enumerate
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@item
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A file consists of a header and a number of metadata tags divided into sections,
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each on its own line.
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@item
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The header is a ';FFMETADATA' string, followed by a version number (now 1).
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@item
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Metadata tags are of the form 'key=value'
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@item
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Immediately after header follows global metadata
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@item
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After global metadata there may be sections with per-stream/per-chapter
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metadata.
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@item
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A section starts with the section name in uppercase (i.e. STREAM or CHAPTER) in
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brackets ('[', ']') and ends with next section or end of file.
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@item
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At the beginning of a chapter section there may be an optional timebase to be
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used for start/end values. It must be in form 'TIMEBASE=num/den', where num and
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den are integers. If the timebase is missing then start/end times are assumed to
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be in milliseconds.
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Next a chapter section must contain chapter start and end times in form
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'START=num', 'END=num', where num is a positive integer.
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@item
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Empty lines and lines starting with ';' or '#' are ignored.
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@item
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Metadata keys or values containing special characters ('=', ';', '#', '\' and a
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newline) must be escaped with a backslash '\'.
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@item
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Note that whitespace in metadata (e.g. foo = bar) is considered to be a part of
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the tag (in the example above key is 'foo ', value is ' bar').
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@end enumerate
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A ffmetadata file might look like this:
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@example
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;FFMETADATA1
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title=bike\\shed
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;this is a comment
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artist=FFmpeg troll team
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[CHAPTER]
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TIMEBASE=1/1000
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START=0
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#chapter ends at 0:01:00
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END=60000
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title=chapter \#1
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[STREAM]
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title=multi\
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line
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@end example
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@c man end METADATA
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