Replace MP4 Meta Tags?

[mrbosco]

If I have a movie file in mp4 format I can go to properties...details...title and change whatever is there to the filename of the movie.
Is there anyway to automate this with a script?
Thanks.

[bdeshi]

select the movie file, paste this code into the addressbar and press ENTER.[code]::$title = property('System.Title', <curitem>); if ($prop) {renameitem($prop, <curitem>, 1);};[/code]I got it the other way around. You want to put the filename as the title.

[mrbosco]

Exactly.

[admin]

Check out scripting command id3tag().

[highend]

for .mp4 video files?

[admin]

Help:
"Works with all files that support ID3v1 tags, e.g. MP3, MP4, M4A. "

[highend]

But this is not about standard id3 tags

What he wants to change is this title:

properties.png

IPropertyStorage is the keyword here

[admin]

Oh, sorry. No, that's not supported.

[mrbosco]

Is it possible to add it to a wish list of future features?

[admin]

Hmm, this is really from the dark side of Windows, I would guess the Office people are responsible for it. So, I will probably always find something better to do than torture myself with this horrific interface.

[mrbosco]

OK, thanks anyway.
The reason I'm trying to do this is Plex Media player uses these fields (if present) over the actual filename for its scanner.
So if there's garbage in these fields, Plex screws up. There really should be a way of telling plex to ignore these fields but I can't seem to find one.
Thought if XYPlorer gave me an easy way to populate the fields or blank them out that would solve my problem.

Thanks for your help and the timely responses.
:-)

[totmad1]

You can automate by using ffmpeg.It achieves this by "remuxing" i.e. copying while putting in the metadata.

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     $ffmpeg="%porta%\ffmpeg\bin\ffmpeg.exe";
     $genre="Action";
         $SelectedItems = get("SelectedItemsPathNames","|");
         foreach($Item, $SelectedItems,"|") {
             $base= gpc("$Item", "base");
             $path= gpc("$Item", "path");
             $ext= gpc("$Item", "ext");
             $cmdline = <<<CMD_LINE
cmd /c ""$ffmpeg" -i "$Item" -metadata title="$base" -metadata genre="$genre" -acodec copy -vcodec copy "$path\ $base _NEW.$ext""
CMD_LINE;
             $cmdline = Replace($cmdline, "<crlf>", ' ');
             Run($cmdline, , 0, 0);
             wait 500;
         }

In this case it puts "Action" as Genre.

[highend]

I just stumbled upon "prop": https://prop.codeplex.com/releases/view/11675

The Vista version still works fine on Windows 10.

To set a title you have to use:
prop.exe set "<full path to file>" System.Title="<base name of your file>"

Only 105 KB large^^

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    $prop = "D:\Tools\@Command Line Tools\prop\Vista\prop.exe";
    foreach($item, <get SelectedItemsPathNames |>, , "e") {
        if (gpc($item, "ext") != "mp4") { continue; }
        $baseName = gpc($item, "base");
        runret("""$prop"" set ""$item"" System.Title=""$baseName""");
        status "Setting base name for '" . gettoken($item, -1, "\") . "'";
    }