[lucylawless]

ok, I wrote a little program for my own uses, to work with Quicktime text metadata. Then I thought as long as I had it written, I might as well share it. Then I thought, it would be rude to share a program with bugs in it. Then I thought, I don't have time to test for every last bug. Well, brave soul, that's where you come in. I'm hoping a few people will be willing to try out my new program and tell me if they like it, and more importantly tell me how they would like it improved, and what is wrong with it.

What it does: It reads/writes/edits/searches movie metadata (Quicktime calls it User Data). It also reads/writes/edits/adds chapters to movies. It also plays movies (with some features I've not seen in other free players, like it remembers your place in a movie when you come back to it). It also syncs the sound in movies (not automatically; I don't know of any way a computer could intuit where audio and video should sync, but if you can, please speak up), but the interface for it is very easy.

You can read a little more about it and download from my website at

http://nsorscher.home.attbi.com/MH.html

thankyou

[Chuck_star]

Excellent work

Seems to work fine for me. Any chance you could add support for mpeg-2.
Is it even possible to make it work with ?VCD and SVCD images?

[lucylawless]

Originally posted by Chuck_star:
Excellent work

Seems to work fine for me. Any chance you could add support for mpeg-2.
Is it even possible to make it work with ?VCD and SVCD images?

thanks

That is probably quite possible. For now, all the program does is call on the Quicktime framework to annotate Quicktime movies, which necessarily must be saved as Quicktime movies (preliminary testing suggests that mp4 movies can't hold chapter tracks, but that might also be possible in the future). But you're right that doing the same (chapter marks only I suspect, no metadata) for VCD and SVCD images would be a great addition. I'll look into it.

That said, I have no personal interest in authoring (S)VCDs, and as such I would have to start from scratch to implement such a feature (reading source code and docs about the format of (S)VCD images. I was already pretty familiar with polishing up quicktime movies before I started coding on this project), so it will probably be a while.

Incidentally, the feature I'm working on at the moment is integrated IMDB and/or epguides.com lookup, so you'd have captured an episode of the simpsons, and the program looks up "simpsons" at epguides and gives you a list of the episodes for you to pick from, then fills in the appropriate metadata fields for that episode. cool, huh?

[Chuck_star]

Very nice !

The best of luck with your continuing project.

[Nexus5]

Very nice!

nexus5