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Re: .MOV annotations -> metadata in MPEG4 files?

At 12:30 AM +0200 5/29/03, Brennan wrote: 
It would surprise me very much if the MPEG4 simple video profile had no
support for metadata, but it appears that if I add annotations to a
Quicktime movie, then export as MPEG4, all the annotations are lost.

Maybe QuickTime's MPEG4 implementation doesn't support metadata yet.

Is this the correct behavior, or should I report it as a bug/feature
request?


I really don't know, but to set you in context of what QT seems to do I found out that if you encode a .m4a (AAC with iTunes) from a CD, iTunes will in fact attach meta data regarding the source. The problem is that this meta data is not accessible via the Annotations window in the QT Player. You can open the .m4a file (which I don't think is a compliant MPEG-4 file) with a Hex editor and see some of the meta data inside.

So, it may be that MPEG-4 does have support for meta data in some other structure different from "annotations" in QT. iTunes seems to get access to this meta data, but not QT Player.
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