How can I get the original capture timestamp from my home movie files:: AVI and MPG4?

Question

I have over a TB of home movies with horrible file names. Finding what you want is impossible. I would like to rename all files to the time they were originally recorded (not t

Answer 1

You should have a look at exiftool. It's an non-GUI utility that allow you to access such information in many media files metadata

http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/#supported

You can probably extract exiftool output to make a nice GUI to rename in any language you want. I have my own python script for that.