This software extracts metadata from various files including videos and music.
Supported file types include archives like bzip2, cab, gzip, mar, tar, and zip, as well as audio formats like AIFF, MPEG audio, Real audio, and Sun/NeXT audio. Container file types including Matroska, Ogg, RealMedia, and Microsoft RIFF are also supported, as are a variety of image file types like BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, PSD, TGA, TIFF, WMF, and XCF.
In addition to these types, hachoir-metadata can also extract metadata from Microsoft Office documents, X11 Portable Compiled Font (pcf) files, Torrent metainfo files, TrueType fonts, and Microsoft Windows Portable Executable files. And for video formats, hachoir-metadata can extract metadata from Advanced Streaming Format (ASF) files (used for WMV and WMA), Macromedia Flash Video files, and Apple QuickTime movies.
Overall, hachoir-metadata is a powerful tool that can handle complex multimedia files with ease. Its support for such a diverse range of formats makes it an ideal choice for anyone working with multimedia files on a regular basis.
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