Metadata title -- how to change it?

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Metadata title -- how to change it?

Postby VeryLeanCoder » 06 Apr 2024 01:39

Hello, everyone. If a video has a metadata title, then during the first few seconds of play, it is displayed in the lower center of the window (where the subtitles are shown). I want to remove the metadata title from any of my videos that contain them. So, after I open one such video, I go to Tools > Media Information > General tab, where I see the title value in the Title field. I select the value and delete it, at which point a new button, labeled "Save Metadata", appears to the left of the usual "Close" button. I click the "Save Metadata" button, but the original value reappears in the Title field. Is there a way to get rid of that title value?

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Re: Metadata title -- how to change it?

Postby Lotesdelere » 06 Apr 2024 13:06

Menu Tools -> Preferences -> Subtitles/OSD
Untick the "Show media title on video start" option.
Save, exit and restart VLC.

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Re: Metadata title -- how to change it?

Postby VeryLeanCoder » 06 Apr 2024 21:23

Thank you for your reply! So that would be a way to not see the media title when playing the video. But as for removing it from the video file – presumably using the "Save Metadata" button – that's not an option?

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Re: Metadata title -- how to change it?

Postby Lotesdelere » 08 Apr 2024 13:20

But as for removing it from the video file – presumably using the "Save Metadata" button – that's not an option?

It should work, but I'm not sure if it's has been fixed since this report:
https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=158049

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Re: Metadata title -- how to change it?

Postby VeryLeanCoder » 08 Apr 2024 14:53

Apparently it has not been fixed (I'm using the latest version).

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Re: Metadata title -- how to change it?

Postby Lotesdelere » 09 Apr 2024 12:58

I think FFmpeg can do it, IIRC the command line should be something like that:

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ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -map_metadata -1 -c copy output.mp4


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