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Title: Make and Model information not showing up for videos captured in Android Phones
Post by: sandip666 on February 16, 2021, 12:38:54 PM

Hi All,

Have you noticed that Exiftool does not show Make or Model information of the videos captured in Android phones. However it does show the Make & model information for the videos captured in iPhone. Instead of Make or Model it shows Android version related to the captured video.

Any idea?

Thanks,
Sandip

Title: Re: Make and Model information not showing up for videos captured in Android Phones
Post by: Phil Harvey on February 16, 2021, 01:24:57 PM

Hi Sandip,

This is likely due to the Android app that writes these videos. On Apple, the apps are more tightly coupled to the hardware (since the same company manufactures both), so the app is more likely to know and care about what model it is running on. So I'm not surprised if an Android app stores the Android version instead of make/model.

- Phil

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