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More => Old Versions => Media Center 12 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: mlefebvre on May 25, 2007, 02:59:36 pm
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I tried a search but AVI bring up all the words that have avi in it, such as behavior and having... ;D
Can MC save tag info inside the file itself? I'm not sure if the AVI spec allows for this.
Thanks!
Michel.
PS: (10 to 1 Glynor answers this one first! LOL!)
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Not to hijack your thread, but I am interested in Tag in MPG Video files as well. MC says it has written the tags sucessfully back to the file but they don't appear in Explorer.
Thanks
Nathan
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There is no commonly used standard for tagging AVI or MPEG video files. The AVI container format allows adding additional data in so called 'JUNK' chunks but video player programs do not use this for saving or reading metadata. Some video recording and/or conversion programs can use JUNK chunks for adding some hidden info of the used program or codecs.
MC cannot tag video files or read tags from video files (- except WMV format...)
Re: Save Tags to Files: What file formats are available?
Here's a sort of table:
Audio format - tag format
Monkey's Audio - APE v.2
MP3 - ID3 v.1.1 and 2.3
Musepack - APE v.2
Ogg Vorbis - Vorbis comments
Window Media Audio - Windows Media tags
FLAC with a third party plug-in - FLAC tags (identical with Vorbis comments)
Video format - tag format
Windows Media Video - Windows Media tags
Image format - tag format
JPEG - MJMD (proprietary)
Almost all library fields can be saved in the file tags. Each writable field has an option for the behavior.
The commonly used audio tags like Artist, Album, Name, Track Number, Date and Genre are written in styles which are generally compatible with other programs and HW devices. Also, some other tags are readable with some other programs/devices, but this varies a lot from a file format to another and a program/device to another. The rest of the tags can be saved at least in MC's proprietary style.
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Thanks Alex.
Michel.