topic Re: Metadata Extractor for Video files in Alfresco Archive

Metadata Extractor for Video files

csyoong — Thu, 22 May 2014 08:42:54 GMT

I am working on extracting and storing metadata of various video files, there does not seems to have any out of the box metadata extractors that deal specifically with videos. Any guidance that can help?

Re: Metadata Extractor for Video files

kaynezhang — Thu, 22 May 2014 14:39:13 GMT

I'm afraid there are not any out-of-the-box video metadata extractors ,you should add your own one.
I think ffmpeg might be a good option

Re: Metadata Extractor for Video files

csyoong — Fri, 23 May 2014 06:08:27 GMT

Then is there any reference material to incorporate the ffmpeg as the extractors?

Re: Metadata Extractor for Video files

kaynezhang — Fri, 23 May 2014 10:55:07 GMT

Here is a brief introdcution on how to do it

You should custom a new declare a new extractor ,for example its is called My Extracter,below is how you configur it.


  <bean id="com.company.MyExtracter" class="com.company.MyExtracter" parent="baseMetadataExtracter" />
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In your custom extracter class ,you can call org.alfresco.util.exec.RuntimeExec,this class is used to execute a command ,the command that will be executed to extract metatdata is like below


ffmpeg -i input_video -f ffmetadata metadata.txt
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Then you can parse the metadata.txt and assembe metadata properties.

For detail information on how to declare and cconfigure a new extractor
You can refer to http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Metadata_Extraction