On Wed, 17 Feb 2021 at 17:21:59, Mayayana
wrote (my responses usually follow points raised):
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote
| Since VLC on my system seems to have lost the ability to add anything in
| the Comment field of mp4 files (probably other fields too), anyone care
| to suggest something that can?
|
In case you or anyone else is still interested:
Well, going back to VLC version ....11 (from ....12) solved the problem,
but ...
https://www.jsware.net/jsware/scrfiles.php5#mded
Pretty simple. You need to download ffmpeg.exe.
The download here is an HTA utility that uses ffmpeg.
On 32-bit Windows there's also an option to drop
files into the window. It calls ffmpeg to extract tags
and loads up to 9 that ffmpeg writes to a file. Then
the utility can be used to add/edit/remove any of the
tags. It rewrites the file and tells ffmpeg to load it.
That's it. Most of it is ffmpeg. The utility is just an
HTA that makes the job simple, automating the
command line and the parsing/editing of the tags
file. There are links included to get ffmpeg for
XP/32-bit or Win64.
.... looks the usual workmanlike jsware product. I might try it on the
small number of video files VLC can't edit the metadata on (the ones
where the playing _doesn't_ freeze after I've tried editing metadata [if
it _does_ freeze, I usually know the editing has succeeded]).
I actually stopped using VLC on my WinXP system.
It supposedly supports XP but later versions started
acting funky. I found Media Player Classic and find
that's very solid, even though the last version wwas more
than 3 years ago.
I fear I'm probably stuck on 7 now - I suspect I've made enough little
tweaks that I'd find it a little tedious to go back to XP now. Though I
expect to stay with 7 even longer than I did with XP, because of the
sea-change involved with 10 (and the suspicion that 32-bit 10 will be
hard to find and cease support soon [why did they do a 10-32 initially?
And why are they still supporting it?]). So - touch wood - I'm not
having any problems with VLC (other than the one that prompted this and
an earlier thread).
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf
Of course, this show - like every other cop show on earth - massively
overstates the prevalence of violent crime: last year, in the whole of the UK,
police fired their weapons just three times. And there were precisely zero
fatalities. - Vincent Graff in RT, 2014/11/8-14