I'm using metadata-extractor to retrieve metadata from video files. I have it successfully retrieving the directories. Now I need to query the directories for specific info -- duration, height, etc.
The metadata-extractor docs give this example of how to query for a specific tag value:
// obtain the Exif directory
ExifSubIFDDirectory directory
= metadata.getFirstDirectoryOfType(ExifSubIFDDirectory.class);
// query the tag's value
Date date
= directory.getDate(ExifSubIFDDirectory.TAG_DATETIME_ORIGINAL);
So it appears I need to get a list of the relevant tags, such as TAG_DATETIME_ORIGINAL
, for duration, height, etc.
This page in the metadata-extractor docs contains a link titled "the various tag values", but the page it goes to lists tags for still images only, not for video files.
Googling for Metadata-Extractor -- Complete List of All Tags
does not seem to bring up a list of all tags.
Are the metadata-extractor docs really missing a list of tags, or am I approaching this the wrong way somehow?
I found a list of tags at:
However, those constants don't seem to be what's needed in actual code. Here's Java code that works:
import com.drew.imaging.ImageMetadataReader;
import com.drew.metadata.Directory;
import com.drew.metadata.Metadata;
import com.drew.metadata.Tag;
import com.drew.metadata.file.FileTypeDirectory;
import com.drew.metadata.mp4.Mp4Directory;
import com.drew.metadata.mp4.media.Mp4SoundDirectory;
import com.drew.metadata.mp4.media.Mp4VideoDirectory;
[.....]
Metadata theMetadata = null;
try {
InputStream stream = new URL(theVideoInfo.getLinkToVideo()).openStream();
theMetadata = ImageMetadataReader.readMetadata(stream);
}
} catch (java.lang.Exception exception) {
exception.printStackTrace();
}
Mp4SoundDirectory soundDirectory
= theMetadata.getFirstDirectoryOfType(Mp4SoundDirectory.class);
Mp4VideoDirectory videoDirectory
= theMetadata.getFirstDirectoryOfType(Mp4VideoDirectory.class);
Mp4Directory mp4Directory
= theMetadata.getFirstDirectoryOfType(Mp4Directory.class);
FileTypeDirectory fileTypeDirectory
= theMetadata.getFirstDirectoryOfType(FileTypeDirectory.class);
String numberOfAudioChannels
= soundDirectory.getString(Mp4SoundDirectory.TAG_NUMBER_OF_CHANNELS);
String duration = mp4Directory.getString(Mp4Directory.TAG_DURATION);
String frameRate = videoDirectory.getString(Mp4VideoDirectory.TAG_FRAME_RATE);
String height = videoDirectory.getString(Mp4VideoDirectory.TAG_HEIGHT);
String width = videoDirectory.getString(Mp4VideoDirectory.TAG_WIDTH);
String type = fileTypeDirectory.getString(FileTypeDirectory.TAG_DETECTED_FILE_MIME_TYPE);
I found the constants (TAG_HEIGHT, TAG_WIDTH, etc.) by directly examining the metadata-extractor objects in the debugger. For example, I'd type:
Mp4VideoDirectory.WIDTH
...and the debugger (IntelliJ) would auto-complete the available constants that had the text "WIDTH" in them.