Exiv2

Hi Norbert,

Norbert Wagner wrote:

Hello,

there is a page displaying "Supported image formats". I could not find something similar for Video formats. Can You supply it?

JohnJohn

I had a talk with Mahesh about this.
So far we have the following types of video files in read support -
[1] RIFF
[2] MATROSKA
[3] QUICKTIME
[4] ASF (Windows Media)

And the write support for the following is also there -
[1] RIFF
[2] MATROSKA

The write support for Quicktime and ASF is also being added in the meanwhile.

You are right about stating that there should be a page displaying Video Format Supported.
We will try to add that as and when we get time.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Awesome work done Mahesh. :)

Mahesh Hegde wrote:

Hi Abhinav,

Can you please verify this comprehensive list of file formats supported under 0.24 ?
http://dev.exiv2.org/projects/exiv2/wiki/Supported_video_formats

Do you have any additional notes to be added.?

Here are a few Modifications that I have to suggest -
[1] Also add WEBM format under Matroska, it works under Matroska container
[2] WMA / WMV and DivX are under the Container ASF, I think they have similar structure to Quicktime, but indeed it is called ASF
[3] RIFF also has DivX under it. I mean DivX codecs also use RIFF containers to store Metadata.
[4] There are various mobile device formats that are supported via QuickTime class. I mean format like - 3gp, 3gp2, and a few similar.

There is an exhaustive list compiled by Phil (http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/).
It can be used as a reference to see which file format is supported by which container type. I mean please go through the Supported File Type section. It has been very well documented.