How does EXIFTOOL determine CoverArt?

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theprof

October 31, 2024, 08:18:43 AM
How does EXIFTool determine the CoverArt?

I want to add thumbnails to my videos where it doesn't have one. To do that, I'm using FFMPEG and adding it after the first video stream track so that the thumbnail becomes the second video track with codec name mjpeg.

It seems EXIFTOOL is able to find this track and then state that it has "CoverArt". How does it do this? Does it search all video tracks for codec MJPEG?

Phil Harvey

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October 31, 2024, 09:14:08 AM
ExifTool extracts the metadata from a video file.  It is not stored as a video track.

- Phil
...where DIR is the name of a directory/folder containing the images.  On Mac/Linux/PowerShell, use single quotes (') instead of double quotes (") around arguments containing a dollar sign ($).

theprof

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October 31, 2024, 10:53:54 AM
Quote from: Phil Harvey on October 31, 2024, 09:14:08 AMExifTool extracts the metadata from a video file.  It is not stored as a video track.

- Phil

Another question, how do I get the container of the video (such as MP4, MOV, AVI, MKV)? Is it the "FileType" tag?

Phil Harvey

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October 31, 2024, 02:44:28 PM
Yes.
...where DIR is the name of a directory/folder containing the images.  On Mac/Linux/PowerShell, use single quotes (') instead of double quotes (") around arguments containing a dollar sign ($).
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