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Old July 10th 18, 12:58 PM posted to alt.windows7.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,uk.tech.broadcast
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Default Does .mp4 - or any other video format - have a text field (comment, not subtitle)? If so, what can edit it?

"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message
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I like the comment field in the .jpg image format; if viewing an image in
IrfanView, I just type I then C, and I can add comment text, that then
actually becomes part of the file, thus surviving any renaming, zipping,
even emailing. (I use it a lot in listing who's who in group photographs
[I come across those a lot in genealogy], but general information about an
image is useful.) [I _presume_ there are other image-handling softwares
that can access/edit this field, though I don't know what they are; I'd be
interested to know.]

I'd like to have a similar facility for videos (I have mostly .mp4 format,
but am interested for any format): _is_ there something intrinsic to the
format? I'm not talking about a subtitle "track", or anything like that -
just a comment field. And if there is, what software can access - and/or
edit - it?

At present, I'm reduced to either putting information into the filename,
or keeping a text (or other, such as .doc - I only use that for the one or
two places I want to e. g. include some Russian) file of the same name in
the folder next to it. Both of which are unsatisfactory compared to an
embedded text field.


The only video formats that I've found that allow "metadata" such as text
are Microsoft's proprietary MPEG/H264 container formats DVR-MS and WTV. It's
a shame that with TS and MPG, you can't store text such as episode title and
plot summary, but instead need to save these in an accompanying txt or xml
file.