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10. All About Metadata

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In this chapter, you will learn to perform several tasks related to metadata. Metadata means to data about data. Multimedia metadata refers to information such as title, artist, album, subject, genre, year, copyright, producer, software creator, comments, lyrics, and even album art images that are used to describe the video and/or audio content.

An audio or video file can have global metadata (i.e., at the file level) and stream-specific metadata too. You can use ffprobe and ffmpeg -i commands to display metadata ...

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