[FFmpeg-user] Removing a metadata tag from a specfic stream

MediaMouth communque at gmail.com
Fri Feb 5 19:28:39 EET 2021


Can you post the actual media (or at least a sample version if there are ownership issues)?
If yo can, I'll run a few tests.

> On Feb 5, 2021, at 8:46 AM, Thibeau <vercruyssen.thibeau at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi MediaMouth,
> 
> I tried your command and had already tried it myself before. The output
> file still contains the comment: Other metadata tag I think it isn't set to
> empty beacuse it's not in the main stream but rather in the stream where
> the cover art resides. For the full output see my original question output
> hasn't changed.
> 
> On Fri, 5 Feb 2021 at 15:57, MediaMouth <communque at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Feb 5, 2021, at 3:48 AM, Thibeau <vercruyssen.thibeau at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi
>>> I'm trying to remove the comment tag which has the value Other but seem
>> to
>>> be unable to do so using ffmpeg.
>>> I think it's because it's part of the stream that contains the cover art
>> so
>>> the comment belongs the cover art metadata not the global song metadata.
>>> Any ideas what command I could use to remove this tag? .
>>> Here's a pastebin of the outpot of ffprobe where I pointed an arrow
>> towards
>>> the tag I want to remove.
>>> https://pastebin.com/wTiyFP9u
>> 
>> Hi Thibeau,
>> 
>> Try this...
>> Copies file contents, changes 'comments' metadata to empty:
>> 
>> ffmpeg \
>> -i /path/to/source \
>> -metadata comment= \
>> -c copy \
>> /path/to/dest \
>> 
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