Python native library to read metadata from videos?

python exiftool pyexiv2
ensnare picture ensnare · Apr 9, 2012 · Viewed 13.8k times · Source

Is there a Python library to read metadata (camera model, time created, etc ...) from video files? The Perl equivalent is "exiftool." I checked pyexiv2, but it doesn't have video support like exiftool does. Thanks.

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marbdq picture marbdq · Apr 26, 2012

I have used hachoir-metadata succesfully: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/hachoir-metadata

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