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Label non-iTMS Videos as TV shows
Authored by: inferno10 on Dec 20, '05 09:47:21AM

There is no ATOM data for avi files. Is there no hope for these kinds of files?



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Label non-iTMS Videos as TV shows
Authored by: lstewart on Dec 20, '05 10:32:24AM
Disclaimer: I am not an expert on the internals of any video or audio file formats. I'm just sharing my understanding of the way things are. With that out of the way...

When you store metadata in video files, the information is stored in different structures and formats, depending on the package format (MPEG4, AVI, Quicktime) into which the info is being embedded. Software which knows how to embed and extract metadata from an MPEG4 file is clueless about how to do the same thing with an AVI file.

Atomic Parsley (and by extension, Lostify) are written to work with MPEG4 files. They can't do AVI. For that matter, I don't think iTunes deals very well with AVI files, or understands the metadata embedded in them. The iPod certainly won't.

If you want to modify metadata in AVI files, you can get other free utilities to do that (mostly on Windows, like abcAVI ). But if you want to categorize those movies in iTunes and watch them on an iPod, they would of course need to be transcoded into MPEG4 first.

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Label non-iTMS Videos as TV shows
Authored by: lgc90 on Dec 20, '05 11:44:17AM

You could use mpeg streamclip, which can convert pretty much anything playable in quicktime to anything else playable in quicktime. (including avi to mp4)

http://www.alfanet.it/squared5/mpegstreamclip.html



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Tagging AVIs
Authored by: brainzelda on Dec 20, '05 12:28:00PM

If the avi container itself has ipod-compatible mpeg4 and aac streams inside, you can open it in Quicktime and export it to mpeg4 to wrap it in an mp4 container. Just set the audio and video to pass-through and there will be no transcode. Now you can edit the mp4 file in AtomicParsley as described.



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