That looks like exactly what I want, thanks! However, testing it, it doesn't seem to work?
$ exifdate.py -s 2010-04-02_10:00:46 20100402100046.mp4 $ exiftool 20100402100046.mp4 | grep -i date File Modification Date/Time : 2013:02:24 14:10:13+01:00 Create Date : 1904:01:01 00:00:00 Modify Date : 1904:01:01 00:00:00 Track Create Date : 1904:01:01 00:00:00 Track Modify Date : 1904:01:01 00:00:00 Media Create Date : 1904:01:01 00:00:00 Media Modify Date : 1904:01:01 00:00:00 Rgds//Thomas On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Thomas Jost <[email protected]> wrote: > You can use exiftool, with something similar to this: > > exiftool -p -CreateDate="%Y:%m:%d %H:%M:%S" file.mp4 > > Here's a little Python3 script I wrote about a year ago to do it with all > the relevant MP4 tags: http://pastebin.com/HTQZMqKX > > Cheers, > Thomas > > Le 24/02/2013 10:36, Thomas Novin a écrit : > >> Hello >> >> I'm converting some old recordings from a DVR we had from .MTS to .MP4. >> After this, I will import them to shotwell. But I can't get shotwell to >> automatically detect the date. >> >> How can this be done? The old .MTS-filename includes the date. But I can't >> find any way to write it with avconv. Neither can shotwell use the file >> dates, right? >> >> Tried writing date as metadata with avconv but it doesn't help/doesn't >> work. >> >> for i in `find . -iname *.mts`; do >> >> FN=`echo $i | awk -F\. '{print $2}'` >> DATE=`echo $FN | awk -F'/' '{print $2}' | sed 's/\///'` >> >> /usr/bin/avconv -y -i "$i" -crf 25.0 -vcodec libx264 -acodec libvo_aacenc >> -ar 48000 -ab 160k -coder 1 -flags +loop -cmp +chroma -partitions >> +parti4x4+partp8x8+partb8x8 -me_method hex -subq 6 -me_range 16 -g 250 >> -keyint_min 25 -sc_threshold 40 -i_qfactor 0.71 -b_strategy 1 -qcomp 0.6 >> -qmin 0 -qmax 69 -qdiff 4 -bf 3 -refs 8 -directpred 3 -trellis 2 -flags2 >> +bpyramid+mixed_refs+wpred+**dct8x8+fastpskip -wpredp 2 -rc_lookahead 60 >> -threads 0 -metadata date=2012-"$DATE" ."$FN".mp4 >> >> Suggestions are welcome.. >> >> Rgds//Thomas >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Shotwell mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-**bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell<http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell> >> > > -- > Thomas/Schnouki > ______________________________**_________________ > Shotwell mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-**bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell<http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell> > _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
