Is metadata editing scriptable?

[noteki]

Hello.

I'm completely new to VLC scripting. I have many old MP4 video files from my camcorder which still have their former (garbage) filenames in their title and comment metadata tag.
Of course, I can edit the file's title and comment tag manually in VLC and then save the metadata. And thankfully it's written to the existing file, i.e. without creating a new file like many other tools do.

Is there a way I can script VLC (on the command line) to batch process my old MP4 videos files (= either delete title+comment tag or write the file name to these tags) and most importantly, without creating a new file?

Thank you very much for your patience and your help.

[ProtoSahara]

I know this was posted a while ago, but a better way to do this would be by using python https://stackoverflow.com/questions/308 ... -in-python