How do I add metadata to a video file?

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I’m looking for a free FOSS tool that would allow me to add metadata to video files.
For example, if I download a video from YouTube, I would like to save the URL as metadata in the video file. I would like to add all kind of little notes, that I can later see with Media Info.

Is there an easy way to do that? If so, how?

Thanks.

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First I have two questions:

  1. Are you on Windows or Linux?
  2. Do you need/prefer a GUI, or is CLI okay?

With that out of the way, I would conditionally recommend Exiftool which should[1] support the metadata edit needs you have specified

  1. I haven’t used exiftool in this way before, or in a while for that matter, so no guarantees :slight_smile: ↩︎

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Both excellent questions.

I am on Windows and I prefer GUI. CLI is too complicated for me.

Is ExifTool a GUI app?

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I believe there is a GUI for Windows, though I’ve never personally used it on Windows.

From the exiftool website:

ii) Running in the Windows GUI (not from command line):

Double-click on “exiftool(-k).exe” to read the application documentation, or drag-and-drop files and folders to run exiftool on the selected files.

Simple options may be added inside brackets in the name of the .exe file. (But note that the characters /\?*:|"<> may not be used because they are invalid in Windows file names.)

Note: exiftool is not a “GUI app” itself in that the program is mainly run/configurable at the CLI, though it does appear that there is some, perhaps limited, GUI for exiftool on Windows.

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Ah, that’s too bad. I appreciate you trying to help.

The search continues.

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Last year some time, I was trying to change the dates of some video files and was searching for a similar tool, and eventually gave up. Exiftool was one that came close, but it didn’t support my videos. If you come across something that works, I would be very glad if you could reply here.