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ExifTool => The "exiftool" Application => Topic started by: BernhardMM on December 15, 2016, 05:09:25 AM

Title: Set "Cover Art" Tag
Post by: BernhardMM on December 15, 2016, 05:09:25 AM
Hello there,

I have had much success with extracting all kinds of metainfo from MP4 video files, I could also set a title - but I was unable to set a "Cover Art" picture tag (embed the binary).

Is that supposed to be possible with ExifTool? I searched around in the forum and also the HowTo sections/examples, but did not find any info.

Cheers,

Bernhard
Title: Re: Set "Cover Art" Tag
Post by: StarGeek on December 15, 2016, 12:36:46 PM
No, exiftool has limited support for writing video files. 

You might look into AtomicParsley (http://atomicparsley.sourceforge.net/).  With a quick google I was able to find this command to embed images.
atomicparsley infile.mp4 --artwork infile.png --overWrite
Title: Re: Set "Cover Art" Tag
Post by: BernhardMM on December 15, 2016, 01:15:26 PM
Thank you for confirming my suspicion :) Glad it's not because I'm a tool. I have found various other tools such as mp3tag to do the job, I was just trying to cut down on tools, since Exiftool is the perfect solution for reading the data.

Cheers,

Bernhard