[Fwd: Extended INFO tags (textual info in AVI files) in VirtualDubMod]
Christian HJ Wiesner <[email protected]>
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Hi Alexander ! Me ? Author of VdubMod .. lol . No, i am just helping a bit. Forwarded your email to virtualdubmod-devel list, so the developers know what you recommend. I personally hate AVI and hope it will die soon ... ;) ... matroska forever !!!! check www.matroska.org for more info. Our tagging system is quite advanced, but we restricted ourselves to about 100 different tags, to avoid its getting too complicated. Interesting for you to make a matroska file editor maybe ? Christian -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Extended INFO tags (textual info in AVI files) in VirtualDubMod Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 00:07:51 +0400 From: Alexander Sorkin aka Kibi <[email protected]> Reply-To: Alexander Sorkin aka Kibi <[email protected]> To: Christian Wiesner <[email protected]> Hello, Christian Wiesner, author of VirtualDubMod! I want to ask you to include support of extended INFO tags into your application. I'm author of abcAVI Tag Editor - the utility for adding, browsing and changing textual info inside AVI files. In short abcAVI allows user to download information on movie from Internet Movie Database or type it by himself/herself and save that info inside AVI. abcAVI Tag Editor has 1.5 years history and it's possible to estimate approximately several tens of thousands users who downloaded abcAVI. They are users who may or already use your software too. That's why I decide to send you this mail. Tags is pretty comfortable way to hold information on digital movie. It's comfortable for users - no need to provide additional files with AVI. It's comfortable for programmers - Extended INFO tags introduce effective means to sign AVI files and keep information in computer-friendly (database oriented) form. It means that instead of one piece of information you can use a lot of different fields (it allows you to perform sorting, filtering etc data with eases). Extended INFO tags are backward compatible with Microsoft's definition of RIFF INFO tags. RIFF INFO is standard way to hold additional information inside RIFF files, including AVI (DivX). There are many tags in Microsoft definitions of RIFF format, you know "Title", "Copyright", "Author", "Comments" and other. The difference between Extended INFO Tags and RIFF INFO tags is new fields for description video/movie specific information like actors/actresses, editors, writers, producers, designers, certificates/rating and so on (you can see in the attachments at Comparison table of INFO tags). In short INFO tags for AVI are like ID3 tags for MP3 files. You may include ability both to read tags and to write tags - it depends on your software. You may code all the needed functions from the beginning by yourself or use following sources or binaries: AVITags DLL - COM DLL for reading/writing INFO tags written in Delphi 5. It was published under GPL with open source. MMAviInf - little INFO tags editor written in Microsoft Visual C++. Also open source project. P.S. The list of useful links: DV Data in the AVI File Format (HTM) - http://abcavi.da.ru/dv_data_avi.zip Video For Windows Programmer's Guide (HLP) - http://abcavi.da.ru/dk_doc.zip Multimedia Registration Kit revision 3.0 - http://abcavi.da.ru/mdrk.zip Microsoft Multimedia Standards Update, rev 2.0 (DOC) - http://abcavi.da.ru/riff1.zip Microsoft Multimedia Standards Update, rev 3.0 (PDF) - http://abcavi.da.ru/riff2.zip OpenDML AVI File Format Extensions (PDF) - http://abcavi.da.ru/odml1.zip The Microsoft Audio/Video Interleaved (AVI) file format (DOC) - http://abcavi.da.ru/avi.zip ************** AVITags DLL - http://abcavi.da.ru/avitagsdll.exe AVITags DLL Source (Delphi 5) - http://abcavi.da.ru/atagssrc.zip MMAviInf - http://abcavi.da.ru/mmaviinf.exe MMAviInf Source (C++) - http://abcavi.da.ru/mmaviinf-src.zip P.P.S. Files in the attachments are: abcavi.gif - screen shot of abcAVI Tag Editor info.htm - comparison table of different tag's formats test_avi.zip - AVI file with filled INFO tags Best regards, Alexander Sorkin aka Kibi. mailto:[email protected] http://abcavi.tk
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<center><h2>Comparison table of different tag's formats</h2></center>
<div align=right><a href=http://abcavi.tk>Back to abcAVI Tag Editor page</a></div>
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<tr BGCOLOR=#607758><th colspan=2 BGCOLOR=#d4b895>Extended INFO tags</th><th colspan=2>RIFF INFO</th><th colspan=2>MovieID</th><th colspan=2>IDivX</th><th>Internet Movie Database <a href=#1><font color=black><sup>*</sup></font></a></th><th colspan=2>Morgan Multimedia INFO tags</th><th colspan=2>GSpot INFO tags</th></tr>
<tr BGCOLOR=#cecccc><td>Title</td><td>INAM</td><td>Name</td><td>INAM</td><td>Title</td><td>TITL</td><td>Movie Name</td><td>1..32</td><td>movies.list, aka-names.list</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
<tr><td>Director</td><td>IART</td><td>Artist</td><td>IART</td><td>Director</td><td>DIRC</td><td>Author</td><td>33..60</td><td>directors.list</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
<tr BGCOLOR=#cecccc><td>Copyright</td><td>ICOP</td><td>Copyright</td><td>ICOP</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td>business.list</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
<tr><td>Product</td><td>IPRD</td><td>Product</td><td>IPRD</td><td> </td><td> </td><td>Genre</td><td>113..115</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
<tr BGCOLOR=#cecccc><td>Creation Date</td><td>ICRD</td><td>Creation Date</td><td>ICRD</td><td>Year</td><td>YEAR</td><td>Year</td><td>61..64</td><td>movies.list</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
<tr><td>Genre</td><td>IGNR</td><td>Genre</td><td>IGNR</td><td>Genre</td><td>GENR</td><td>Genre</td><td>113..115</td><td>genres.list</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
<tr BGCOLOR=#cecccc><td>Secondary Genre</td><td>ISGN</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td>genres.list</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
<tr><td>Subject</td><td>ISBJ</td><td>Subject</td><td>ISBJ</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td>taglines.list</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
<tr BGCOLOR=#cecccc><td>Keywords</td><td>IKEY</td><td>Keywords</td><td>IKEY</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td>keywords.list</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
<tr><td>Comments</td><td>ICMT</td><td>Comments</td><td>ICMT</td><td>Comment</td><td>COMM</td><td>Comments</td><td>65..112</td><td>plot.list</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
<tr BGCOLOR=#cecccc><td>Written by</td><td>IWRI</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td>writers.list</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
<tr><td>Produced by</td><td>IPRO</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td>producers.list</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
<tr BGCOLOR=#cecccc><td>Cinematographer</td><td>ICNM</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td>cinematographer.list</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
<tr><td>Production Designer</td><td>IPDS</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td>production-designers.list</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
<tr BGCOLOR=#cecccc><td>Edited by</td><td>IEDT</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td>editors.list</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
<tr><td>Costume Designer</td><td>ICDS</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td>costume-designers.list</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
<tr BGCOLOR=#cecccc><td>Music by</td><td>IMUS</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td>composers.list</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
<tr><td>Production Studio</td><td>ISTD</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td>production-companies.list</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
<tr BGCOLOR=#cecccc><td>Distributed by</td><td>IDST</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td>distributors.list</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
<tr><td>Country</td><td>ICNT</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td>countries.list</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
<tr BGCOLOR=#cecccc><td>Language</td><td>ILNG</td><td> </td><td> </td><td>Language</td><td>LANG</td><td> </td><td> </td><td>language.list</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
<tr><td>Rating</td><td>IRTD</td><td> </td><td> </td><td>Rated</td><td>AGES</td><td>Rating</td><td>115..116</td><td>certificates.list</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
<tr BGCOLOR=#cecccc><td>Part</td><td>IPRT</td><td> </td><td> </td><td>Part</td><td>PRT1</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
<tr><td>Total Number of Parts</td><td>IFRM</td><td> </td><td> </td><td>Total Number of Parts</td><td>PRT2</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
<tr BGCOLOR=#cecccc><td>Starring</td><td>ISTR</td><td> </td><td> </td><td>Starring</td><td>STAR</td><td> </td><td> </td><td>actors.list, actresses.list</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
<tr><td>Software</td><td>ISFT</td><td>Software</td><td>ISFT</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
<tr BGCOLOR=#cecccc><td>Encoded by</td><td>ITCH</td><td>Technician</td><td>ITCH</td><td>Encoded by</td><td>CODE</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td>Encoded by</td><td>IENC</td></tr>
<tr><td>Ripped by</td><td>IRIP</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td>Ripped by</td><td>IRIP</td></tr>
<tr BGCOLOR=#cecccc><td>Digitizing Date</td><td>IDIT</td><td>Digitizing Date</td><td>IDIT</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
<tr><td>Internet Address</td><td>IWEB</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td>Base URL</td><td>IBSU</td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
<tr BGCOLOR=#cecccc><td>Source Form</td><td>ISRF</td><td>Source Form</td><td>ISRF</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
<tr><td>Medium</td><td>IMED</td><td>Medium</td><td>IMED</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
<tr BGCOLOR=#cecccc><td>Source</td><td>ISRC</td><td>Source</td><td>ISRC</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
<tr><td>Archival Location</td><td>IARL</td><td>Archival Location</td><td>IARL</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
<tr BGCOLOR=#cecccc><td>Commissioned by</td><td>ICMS</td><td>Commissioned by</td><td>ICMS</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
<tr><td>Engineer</td><td>IENG</td><td>Engineer</td><td>IENG</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
<tr BGCOLOR=#cecccc><td>Cropped</td><td>ICRP</td><td>Cropped</td><td>ICRP</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
<tr><td>Sharpness</td><td>ISHP</td><td>Sharpness</td><td>ISHP</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
<tr BGCOLOR=#cecccc><td>Dimensions</td><td>IDIM</td><td>Dimensions</td><td>IDIM</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
<tr><td>Lightness</td><td>ILGT</td><td>Lightness</td><td>ILGT</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
<tr BGCOLOR=#cecccc><td>Dots Per Inch</td><td>IDPI</td><td>Dots Per Inch</td><td>IDPI</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
<tr><td>Palette Setting</td><td>IPLT</td><td>Palette Setting</td><td>IPLT</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
<tr BGCOLOR=#cecccc><td>First language</td><td>IAS1</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td>First language <a href=#2><sup>**</sup></a></td><td>IAS1</td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
<tr><td>Second language</td><td>IAS2</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td>Second language <a href=#2><sup>**</sup></a></td><td>IAS2</td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
<tr BGCOLOR=#cecccc><td>Third language</td><td>IAS3</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td>Third language <a href=#2><sup>**</sup></a></td><td>IAS3</td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
<tr><td>Fourth language</td><td>IAS4</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td>Fourth language <a href=#2><sup>**</sup></a></td><td>IAS4</td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
<tr BGCOLOR=#cecccc><td>Fifth language</td><td>IAS5</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td>Fifth language <a href=#2><sup>**</sup></a></td><td>IAS5</td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
<tr><td>Sixth language</td><td>IAS6</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td>Sixth language <a href=#2><sup>**</sup></a></td><td>IAS6</td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
<tr BGCOLOR=#cecccc><td>Seventh language</td><td>IAS7</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td>Seventh language <a href=#2><sup>**</sup></a></td><td>IAS7</td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
<tr><td>Eighth language</td><td>IAS8</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td>Eighth language <a href=#2><sup>**</sup></a></td><td>IAS8</td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
<tr BGCOLOR=#cecccc><td>Ninth language</td><td>IAS9</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td>Ninth language <a href=#2><sup>**</sup></a></td><td>IAS9</td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
<tr><td>Default audio stream</td><td>ICAS</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td>Default audio stream <a href=#2><sup>**</sup></a></td><td>ICAS</td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
<tr BGCOLOR=#cecccc><td>Logo URL</td><td>ILGU</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td>Logo URL <a href=#3><sup>***</sup></a></td><td>ILGU</td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
<tr><td>Logo Icon URL</td><td>ILIU</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td>Logo Icon URL <a href=#3><sup>***</sup></a></td><td>ILIU</td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
<tr BGCOLOR=#cecccc><td>Watermark URL</td><td>IWMU</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td>Watermark URL <a href=#3><sup>***</sup></a></td><td>IWMU</td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
<tr><td>More Info URL</td><td>IMIU</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td>More Info URL <a href=#3><sup>***</sup></a></td><td>IMIU</td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
<tr BGCOLOR=#cecccc><td>More Info Banner Image</td><td>IMBI</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td>More Info Banner Image <a href=#3><sup>***</sup></a></td><td>IMBI</td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
<tr><td>More Info Banner URL</td><td>IMBU</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td>More Info Banner URL <a href=#3><sup>***</sup></a></td><td>IMBU</td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
<tr BGCOLOR=#cecccc><td>More Info Text</td><td>IMIT</td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td>goofs.list, trivia.list</td><td>More Info Text <a href=#3><sup>***</sup></a></td><td>IMIT</td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
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<div align=right><i>Information was refreshed at 23 december 2002</i></div>
<h2>Comments</h2>
<p><b><a name="1"><sup>*</sup></a> - <a href=http://www.imdb.com target=_blank>Internet Movie Database</a></b> is the most huge online database over the world. It consists of information on 330060 movies and 1094579 names at 4 november 2002. IMHO it's good to have ability to store in AVI files the information from such sources.
<p><b><a name="2"><sup>**</sup></a> - <a href=http://www.morgan-multimedia.com/mmswitch target=_blank>Morgan Multimedia Stream Switcher</a></b> brings ability to switch "on the fly" between two or more audio streams in AVI files. It holds the information about language of streams in special INFO tags.
<p><b><a name="3"><sup>***</sup></a> - <a href=http://www.morgan-multimedia.com target=_blank>Guillaume de Bailliencourt</a></b> include these tags for fully compatibility with <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dx8_c/directx_cpp/htm/iammediacontentinterface.asp" target=_blank>IAMMediaContent Interface</a>.
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