Treieve id3 tag from mp4 video file?

[American horizon]

Hi

Is it possible to retrieve the id3tags from an mp4 video file? The official documentation tells "mp4" only under audio formats... I need to apply it on video-audio files

[James Heinrich]

MP4 doesn't support ID3 tags, so no.

But getID3() should be able to retrieve applicable metadata from either audio or video files that are labeled ".mp4" (exacty contents may vary, depending on who or what created the file, but it's almost always some derivative of QuickTime file format).

edit: I've added "mp4" as a side note to Quicktime under video format support) on the main page.

[American horizon]

I've some mp4 video files that have information about title, author, genre etc etc..and i can edit it too (in windows, right click on it-->proprieties --> details tab). But i'm not sure that are effectively id3 information... uhm... What they are? There are some possibility to read it server side?

[James Heinrich]

The metadata there would (typically) be store in Quicktime comment structures. getID3 will readily read all that data.

[American horizon]

Sorry i don't understand.. This information stored inside the mp4 file that i'm talking about, are called "metadata" or "id3" ?
And i also don't understand what is the relationship between quicktime and mp4

[James Heinrich]

ID3v1 and ID3v2 are two tag formats primarily used on mp3 files, which have no "official" tag format since the format was not developed with its current use in mind. You may possibly also see other tag formats (e.g. APE, Lyrics3) in use on MP3 files.

Quicktime file format, from which MP4 is derived, does has an official native tagging scheme. It's not the same format as ID3v1 or ID3v2, but it is capable of representing most of the same information.

getID3 can abstract the details of all the tagging formats for you, you can just look in [comments][title] (for example) in the returned data of any file format and find what you expect to find, without worrying about all the details of exactly where and how that information is hiding in the file.

[American horizon]

Ok, thank you so much for the reply

But technically this tagging scheme used by mp4 files, have a name?

[Pernod]

But technically this tagging scheme used by mp4 files, have a name?

Yes, QuickTime.

[American horizon]

Another question. There aren't anty kind of sapport for flv files?

[James Heinrich]

Sure there is.