Quicktime Parser

Parse metadata from quicktime .mov files.

Installation

You can install this tool as a package via PIP:

pip install git+"https://github.com/Deconimus/quicktime-parser"

How to use

Here's a brief code example that showcases how to use the script:

import quicktimeparser.parse as qtparse

qt = qtparse.Mov("path/to/file.mov")
qt.parse()

#retrieve the creation-time as a string (the actual creation time, not the file-system creation time)
date = qt.metadata["creation time"]

#traverse all key-value pairs of the metadata
for key in qt.metadata.keys():
  print(key+": "+str(qt.metadata[key]))

Note that all metadata key's are converted to lower-case and stripped of leading and trailing spaces.

History

This is a fork from kzahel's quicktime-parse.

The goals were:

• store the metadata inside a dictionary after parsing instead of just printing the results
• speed up parsing by only reading relevant data (the original script used read() instead of seek() a lot)

Additional features:

• dynamically parse quicktime meta-tables in mdta format