# Could ruby programming capture a media title? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [September 4, 2009, 8:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/could-ruby-programming-capture-a-media-title/174926 "2009-09-04T08:47:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rubyernewbie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/9dc877/32.png) [@rubyernewbie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rubyernewbie)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2009, 8:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/could-ruby-programming-capture-a-media-title/174926/1 "2009-09-04T08:47:36Z")
I have a thought on if we could capture a media title when we watch a movies through mplayer. I’m afraid not… not for a specific programming like ruby, but I would really enjoy it if someone make it real in ruby. ---
**Author:** ![rubyernewbie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/9dc877/32.png) [@rubyernewbie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rubyernewbie)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2009, 2:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/could-ruby-programming-capture-a-media-title/174926/2 "2009-09-04T14:28:00Z")
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 2:47 AM, Zhenning G.[removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > I have a thought on if we could capture a media title when we watch a > movies through mplayer. > I’m afraid not… not for a specific programming like ruby, but I would > really enjoy it if someone make it real in ruby. You might have some luck with FFMpeg ([http://ffmpeg.org](http://ffmpeg.org)). Let us know when you’ve written the code. Media processing is an interest of mine. Regards, Jason ---
**Author:** ![rubyernewbie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/9dc877/32.png) [@rubyernewbie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rubyernewbie)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2009, 11:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/could-ruby-programming-capture-a-media-title/174926/3 "2009-09-04T23:22:34Z")
On Sep 3, 2009, at 23:47, Zhenning G. wrote: > I have a thought on if we could capture a media title when we watch a > movies through mplayer. > I’m afraid not… not for a specific programming like ruby, but I would > really enjoy it if someone make it real in ruby. I’m working on it: $ ruby -Ilib sample/metadata.rb ~/Movies/A\ History\ Of\ Violence.mp4 A History Of Violence.mp4 metadata: album: “” author: “” comment: “” copyright: “” filename: “/Users/drbrain/Movies/A History Of Violence.mp4” genre: “Drama” title: “A History Of Violence” [https://github.com/drbrain/ffmpeg-rb/tree](https://github.com/drbrain/ffmpeg-rb/tree) ---
**Author:** ![rubyernewbie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/9dc877/32.png) [@rubyernewbie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rubyernewbie)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2009, 6:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/could-ruby-programming-capture-a-media-title/174926/4 "2009-09-06T06:42:51Z")
On Sat, 5 Sep 2009 06:18:24 +0900 Eric H. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > [https://github.com/drbrain/ffmpeg-rb/tree](https://github.com/drbrain/ffmpeg-rb/tree) Sweet! Nice work. I did a bunch of shell scripting which had me tearing my hair out… I’d love to replace it with Ruby code using your library. ---
**Author:** ![rubyernewbie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/9dc877/32.png) [@rubyernewbie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rubyernewbie)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2009, 1:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/could-ruby-programming-capture-a-media-title/174926/5 "2009-09-09T01:41:48Z")
On Sep 5, 2009, at 21:40, spiralofhope wrote: > On Sat, 5 Sep 2009 06:18:24 +0900 > Eric H. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > [https://github.com/drbrain/ffmpeg-rb/tree](https://github.com/drbrain/ffmpeg-rb/tree) > > Sweet! Nice work. > > I did a bunch of shell scripting which had me tearing my hair out… > I’d > love to replace it with Ruby code using your library. For extracting it will work as-is. I recently got audio/video transcoding working, but only on a limited basis (same audio sampling rate, etc.). I’m not sure how to update metadata without transcoding, haven’t looked into it at all.